Houthis Claim to Have Attacked U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier

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Houthis Claim to Have Attacked U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier
Story by Peter Suciu • 1h •


The Iranian-back Houthi rebels in Yemen claimed on Friday to have attacked the United States Navy's Nimitz-class nuclear-powered supercarrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69), which recently returned to the Red Sea after a brief deployment to the Eastern Mediterranean. The Houthis said their attack was in response to strikes carried out by aircraft launched from the carrier on targets in Yemen on Thursday.
 
Yahya Saree, the Houthi's military spokesman, said in a statement to the media that 16 people were killed and 41 others – including civilians – had been injured in the U.S. and UK-led strikes.

The UK Ministry of Defence had confirmed that two locations near Hudaydah had been targeted after it was determined the buildings were housing ground control facilities and the drones employed in the Houthi's anti-shipping attacks. The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) announced that U.S. and British forces successfully struck 13 targets in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen on Thursday.
 
Houthis Lying About Attacking U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier?
The U.S. Navy has not confirmed that the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower came under any attack. The aircraft carrier and units of her carrier strike group (IKECSG) departed their homeports of Norfolk, Virginia, and Mayport, Florida, on Oct. 13 & 14 for a scheduled deployment to the region, and since last fall conducted operations as part of the U.S. 5th Fleet in the Red Sea, Bab Al-Mandeb Strait, Gulf of Aden and Arabian Gulf including Operation Prosperity Guardian and self-defensive strikes into Iranian-backed Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen.

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[PeteS in CA]

The U.S. Navy has not confirmed that the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower came under any attack. ...

Perhaps they didn't realize that some of the random rockets and drones shot down were supposed to be aimed at the Eisenhower. I seriously doubt that the Eisenhower is in visible range of Yemen, and I doubt that a surveillance drone would be allowed to get within a couple miles of the carrier. Absent actual information I think this Houthi claim is for an audience credulous of anti-US absurdities (kind of like how often the IJN sank USS Enterprise, though unlike the Houthis, the IJN did score hits).