{"id":12919,"date":"2024-02-16T14:57:53","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T14:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12919"},"modified":"2024-02-16T14:57:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T14:57:53","slug":"the-us-coast-guard-seized-a-big-cache-of-weapons-bound-for-houthi-rebels-including-ballistic-missile-components-and-explosives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12919","title":{"rendered":"The US Coast Guard seized a big cache of weapons bound for Houthi rebels, including ballistic missile components and explosives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Over 200 packages of illegal weapons and military components bound for Yemen have been seized by the US Coast Guard, the US Central Command said in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CENTCOM\/status\/1758084937331454351\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">statement<\/a>&nbsp;on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The shipment was seized from a vessel in the Arabian Sea on January 28, per the statement. The US Central Command said the weapons had originated in Iran and were en-route to be delivered to Houthi rebels in Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A vast assortment of weapons were found on the vessel, ranging from medium-range ballistic missile components, explosives, and anti-tank guided missile launcher assemblies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This is yet another example of Iran&#8217;s malign activity in the region, &#8221; Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla, CENTCOM commander, said in the statement.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/us-coast-guard-seized-big-042318794.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/us-coast-guard-seized-big-042318794.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Over 200 packages of illegal weapons and military components bound for Yemen have been seized by the US Coast Guard, the US Central Command said in a statement on Thursday.<br \/>\nThe shipment was seized from a vessel in the Arabian Sea on January 28, per the statement. The US Central Command said the weapons had originated in Iran and were en-route to be delivered to Houthi rebels in Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>A vast assortment of weapons were found on the vessel, ranging from medium-range ballistic missile components, explosives, and anti-tank guided missile launcher assemblies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is yet another example of Iran&#8217;s malign activity in the region, &#8221; Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla, CENTCOM commander, said in the statement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/us-coast-guard-seized-big-042318794.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1152,156,391,1999,1226,108,115,619],"class_list":["post-12919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-houthi","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-red-sea","tag-shipping","tag-terrorism","tag-terrorists","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12920,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12919\/revisions\/12920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}