{"id":299113,"date":"2024-11-23T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=299113"},"modified":"2024-11-24T09:09:50","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T09:09:50","slug":"uss-lincoln-exits-red-sea-days-after-heavy-yemeni-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=299113","title":{"rendered":"USS Lincoln exits Red Sea days after heavy Yemeni attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cradle.co \u2013 Nov 20, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Pentagon officials revealed<\/a> on 19 November that the USS Abraham Lincoln left the Red Sea \u201cover the weekend,\u201d ending a three-month deployment<\/a> and leaving West Asia without a US carrier strike group for just the second time in over a year.<\/p>\n

According to US officials, the USS Harry S. Truman strike group will reportedly move to the Mediterranean Sea from its current area of operations in the Atlantic near Portugal’s Azores islands.<\/p>\n

The USS Lincoln’s withdrawal was announced seven days after Sanaa launched two major military operations<\/a> against US warships in the Red Sea, reportedly thwarting a \u201clarge-scale aggression\u201d being prepared by the US and UK navies against Yemen.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe targeted the US aircraft carrier Lincoln located in the Arabian Sea with several cruise missiles and drones while it was preparing to launch operations against our country. The operation successfully achieved its objectives,\u201d armed forces spokesman Brigadier General Yahyaa Saree said on 12 November.<\/p>\n

Two days later, Ansarallah leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi revealed that the aircraft carrier was forced to retreat \u201chundreds of miles\u201d away from the Yemeni coast as a result of the retaliatory attacks. \u201cIn some instances, the [US] aircraft carrier navigates close to certain African coastlines out of fear of being targeted,\u201d the Yemeni resistance leader said.<\/p>\n

US Central Command (CENTCOM) officials last week said there were no injuries, and no warships were damaged following the Yemeni attack, adding that US forces intercepted eight attack drones, five anti-ship ballistic missiles, and four anti-ship cruise missiles.<\/p>\n

Washington and London have been leading an illegal war against Yemen since January in support of the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. However, despite months of heavy airstrikes<\/a>, Yemeni forces have remained undeterred and continue to target Israeli-linked vessels in regional waters.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Yemeni missiles] can do things that are just amazing,\u201d the US Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment Bill LaPlante<\/a> said last week, expressing that Sanaa’s operations \u201care getting scary.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201dI’m an engineer and a physicist, and I’ve been around missiles my whole career. What I’ve seen of what the Houthis have done in the last six months is something that \u2013 I’m just shocked,\u201d LaPlante stressed.<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n

Red-Faced U.S. Retreats? USS Abraham Lincoln Leaves Red Sea After Houthis\u2019 Missile & Drone Blitz<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Hindustan Times \u2013 Nov 20, 2024<\/strong><\/h2>\n