{"id":68414,"date":"2016-10-13T08:45:19","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T12:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68414"},"modified":"2016-10-13T08:45:19","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T12:45:19","slug":"uss-nitze-responds-to-attacks-from-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68414","title":{"rendered":"USS Nitze responds to attacks from Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=68415\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-68415\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/USS_Nitze_DDG94.jpg\" alt=\"USS_Nitze_DDG94\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-68415\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Mick sends us a link from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2016\/10\/13\/us-missiles-destroy-houthi-controlled-radar-sites-on-yemen-coast.html\">Fox News<\/a> which reports that USS Nitze, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, fired cruise missiles at, and destroyed radar installations on the coast of Yemen that had been targeting missiles on US ships that were in international waters.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cook said President Barack Obama authorized the strikes at the recommendation of Defense Secretary Ash Carter and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Joseph Dunford. He added that these were limited self-defense strikes conducted to protect U.S. personnel, ships and freedom of navigation.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the state news agency Saba\u2014 under Houthis&#8217; control\u2014 quoted an unnamed military official as saying that US accusations that a US destroyer had come under attack from areas under control of Houthis were false. He said, &#8220;all these claims are totally untrue and that the popular committees (Houthi militias) have nothing to do with such action.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is no word on casualties related to the strike on Iranian-backed Houthi installations &#8211; my guess would be &#8220;not enough&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mick sends us a link from Fox News which reports that USS Nitze, an Arleigh Burke-class &hellip; <a title=\"USS Nitze responds to attacks from Yemen\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68414\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">USS Nitze responds to attacks from Yemen<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}