{"id":82001,"date":"2018-09-26T13:54:04","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T17:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=82001"},"modified":"2018-09-26T14:08:41","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T18:08:41","slug":"us-navy-says-assault-rifles-were-seized-from-persian-gulf-boats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=82001","title":{"rendered":"US Navy says assault rifles were seized from Persian Gulf boats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/uss-jason-dunham-e1537983531317.jpg\" alt=\"ddg jason dunham\" \/>A team from the guided-missile destroyer USS Jason Dunham inspects a dhow while conducting maritime security operations. A U.S. military video released Aug. 31, 2018, purported to show small ships in the Gulf of Aden smuggling weapons amid the ongoing war in Yemen, with officials saying they seized over 2,500 arms from the vessels. (U.S. Navy via AP)<\/p>\n<p>A boarding team from the guided-missile destroyer Jason Dunham captured more than 1,000 AK-47 rifles from a vessel sailing in the Gulf of Aden. <\/p>\n<p>Navy officials said the warship intercepted the stateless skiff while it was drifting without engine power on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The boarding team determined that the vessel was not flagged to any nation and then discovered the cache of weapons.<\/p>\n<p>The Navy&#8217;s Bahrain-based 5th Fleet gave the updated total in a statement Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>It boarded a skiff and a dhow, a traditional ship in the Persian Gulf, during  routine checks in the Gulf of Aden on Aug. 28.<\/p>\n<p>The Navy added:<strong> &#8220;The origin and intended destination of the skiff have not yet been determined.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ll take, &#8220;Who Are Iran and Yemen?&#8221; for thousand, Alex.<\/p>\n<p>The entire article may be viewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/2018\/08\/30\/destroyer-intercepts-arms-shipment-near-yemen-2\/\">Here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team from the guided-missile destroyer USS Jason Dunham inspects a dhow while conducting maritime security &hellip; <a title=\"US Navy says assault rifles were seized from Persian Gulf boats\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=82001\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US Navy says assault rifles were seized from Persian Gulf boats<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,308,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns","category-iran","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82001","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\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}