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Pentagon Backs Away From Own Justification For Strikes On Yemen Printer friendly page Print This
By Jason Ditz, Mint Press News
Mint Press
Thursday, Oct 20, 2016

In a March, 2016 file photo, the guided-missile cruiser USS Monterey launches a Standard Missile-2 to destroy an advanced high-speed target while USS Stout and USS Mason transit formation during a live-fire test of the ship’s Aegis weapons systems in the Atlantic Ocean. (Photo: Andrae L. Johnson/U.S. Navy)

Reports on Saturday night that the USS Mason came under attack for the third time in less than a week off the coast of Yemen were quietly rolled back by the Pentagon, who have since noted they aren’t really sure about that, and reiterated today that they are still “assessing” the claim.

Reports following the “attack” and the warship’s “retaliation” indicated that the Pentagon believed there was a strong possibility that no missiles were fired at the ship at all, and the detection of the missiles was the result of a radar malfunction.

Despite it then following that there is a very real possibility that the Pentagon “retaliated” against a totally imagined attack, spokesman Peter Cook indicated that the retaliation amounted to an appropriate response to the situation. The US has repeatedly attacked Houthi targets along the Yemeni coast over this incident.

It is unclear what the Pentagon is actually doing to “assess” whether the missiles fired at the USS Mason were real or not, but it appears the ship is being left parked off the Yemeni coast, despite initially being presented as just passing through into the Red Sea.


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