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An oil tanker is on fire in the Gulf of Aden, its operator says, after Houthis said they hit it with a missile.
US officials told the BBC’s US partner CBS the tanker was hit by an anti-ship ballistic missile and a naval ship was responding to its distress signal.
There were no injuries reported, the US officials said.
Houthi military spokesman Yaha Sarea said the group used “a number of appropriate naval missiles” and Friday’s strike was “direct”.
Seems to be a British oil tanker:
Trafiguera has offices all over the world. This is beyond insane.
I mean it does seem like the UK is very mad about it.
Yeah the country that wants to police the shipping lanes and is dependent on oil shipping is mad an oil tanker got hit. Surprise.
The article says that the tanker had links to the UK.
Of course Trafiguera has offices all over the world. Every shipping company registers their ship in some weird place like Panama or the Bahamas.
The question is who actually owns it.
Trafiguera actually owns it. They’re listed as the owner on the registry. Calling Trafiguera a British company because it has an office in London is ridiculous. That would make 99 percent of the worlds shipping US/UK/CN simultaneously.
So they attacked a third country ship purely to get at the British civilians on board?
Yeah I get why Rishi is talking war now. That’s fucking ridiculous.
Mate Britain bombed Yemen first and actually killed people.
Sunak’s family owns Infosys which is heavily involved in the gas deal to steal Gaza’s Marine field. It’s pretty clear why Sunak is helping Israel here.
Right. They bombed Yemen for no reason. Couldn’t have anything to do with them firing at civilian ships.
Were you born yesterday? Because the rest of us have a functioning memory. The ships sole connection was the employer of the crew. It isn’t owned by the UK and it isn’t servicing either the UK or Israel. That makes this a terrorist attack. You went after civilians for your political cause.
Well done Houthis.
“The ship didn’t have relations to the UK! But now that it did, UK was justified for defending israel’s genocide!”.
OK dude