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posted by martyb on Tuesday October 11 2016, @01:42AM   Printer-friendly
from the oh-shoot dept.

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Saudi military base also targeted by missile fired deep inside the kingdom near holy city of Mecca.

Source: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/10/navy-ship-targeted-missile-attack-yemen-161010034052132.html

A US Navy destroyer has been targeted in a failed missile attack from territory in Yemen controlled by Houthi rebels, a US military spokesman says.

In another attack, a ballistic missile launched from Yemen targeted a Saudi airbase near the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi and rebel media reported Monday, the deepest strike yet into the kingdom by the rebels and their allies.

Two missiles failed to hit the US Navy ship after being launched on Sunday, Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis told Reuters news agency.

"USS Mason detected two inbound missiles over a 60-minute period while in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen. Both missiles impacted the water before reaching the ship," he said. "There were no injuries to our sailors and no damage to the ship."

Lieutenant Ian McConnaughey, a Navy spokesman, said on Monday that it was unclear if the Mason was specifically targeted, though the missiles were fired in its direction.

The destroyer at the time of the missile fire was north of the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, which serves as a gateway for oil tankers headed to Europe through the Suez Canal, a defence official said.

[...] On Monday, Saudi state television broadcast a brief clip of what appeared to be a projectile landing in Taif and the flash of an explosion, followed by images of emergency vehicles.

Taif is home to Saudi Arabia's King Fahad Air Base, which hosts US military personnel training the kingdom's armed forces.

The Saudi military said the missile fired late on Saturday caused no damage. The US military's Central Command, which oversees troops in the Middle East, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Al-Masirah, a satellite news channel run by the Houthis, identified the missile as a local variant of a Soviet-era Scud missile. It said the Volcano-1 missile targeted the airbase.


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Arik on Tuesday October 11 2016, @03:57AM

    by Arik (4543) on Tuesday October 11 2016, @03:57AM (#412794) Journal
    What I have is this:

    http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/10/10/two-missiles-fired-yemen-land-near-us-warship/91844032/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=usatoday-newstopstories

    "Two missiles fired from rebel-held territory in Yemen landed near a U.S. warship in the Red Sea, the U.S. Navy said Monday.

    Ian McConnaughey, a spokesman for U.S. Navy Forces Central Command, said it was unclear if the USS Mason — a guided missile destroyer — was specifically targeted, but the missiles were fired in its direction in the space of an hour from 7 p.m. local time Sunday."

    So no, that's not proof of a negative, it's only indicative, but they have no reason to minimize this, if anything their motivation is to do the opposite. So my characterization would appear to be extremely likely to be correct. It sounds to me like the US Navy spokesman chose his words very carefully.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 11 2016, @05:28PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 11 2016, @05:28PM (#413013)

    In that URL, all of this is unnecessary to get the page:
    ?utm_source=feedblitz
    &utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss
    &utm_campaign=usatoday-newstopstories

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    • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Tuesday October 11 2016, @05:42PM

      by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday October 11 2016, @05:42PM (#413022) Journal

      Join the editing team and you can be our special URL processor. Did the URL cause your computer to catch fire, crash, or otherwise cease to function correctly? No? Then there is no problem. If it did, please join our very small and busy team and support us by preventing this sort of problem for occurring again.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 11 2016, @11:35PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 11 2016, @11:35PM (#413162)

        ...if you download the site's CSS and run it.
        I don't.
        (I like a white background with black text and no sidebars.)
        As such, ridiculously long strings of text with no whitespaces spill past the right edge of my screen.
        (I liked the way that was handled back at the start of the site, which worked for any browser setup.)

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        • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Wednesday October 12 2016, @04:45AM

          by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday October 12 2016, @04:45AM (#413281) Journal

          I liked the way that was handled back at the start of the site, which worked for any browser setup.

          And most of the time that is exactly what you get, However, it is a time consuming part of our task and we are currently very stretched. There are two options, as I pointed out to you in my earlier post. You either accept that, from time to time and despite our best efforts, such things will slip through or you join the team and help out by providing additional editorial support. We would, of course, prefer the latter,

      • (Score: 2) by Arik on Monday October 17 2016, @04:46AM

        by Arik (4543) on Monday October 17 2016, @04:46AM (#415094) Journal
        "Did the URL cause your computer to catch fire, crash, or otherwise cease to function correctly? No? Then there is no problem."

        I have to agree with anon that that is a bit too glib.

        I normally strip such junk out manually before posting, in this case I failed. Mea culpa.

        However, if I understood the problem the other gent had, it sounds like a browser issue. It's usually a mistake in the long run to fix a problem at the wrong level. You shouldn't be expected to work around all the buggy browsers out there, they should fix them instead.
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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 12 2016, @03:57AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 12 2016, @03:57AM (#413262)

      The firefox extension PureURL [mozilla.org] strips that crap off by default.
      You can manually add other crap to the list of crap to strip off.