U.S. Navy captures attackers who held Israeli-linked ship

The U.S. Navy on board the destroyer USS Mason, captured a group of armed scumcrumpets who seized a tanker, the MV Central Park, in the Gulf of Aden on Monday. There had been a series of attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea and the gulf, but this put a wrench in the works in the Israel Hamas war. No Americans were injured aboard the ship.

Five armed jihadis, who had taken control of the tanker, attempted to flee the vessel after the U.S. Navy ship demanded they release the vessel and its crew, but they were caught.

CENTCOM said the U.S. Navy ship pursued the cowards and forced them to surrender, and all crew members onboard the Central Park were safe.

USS Mason

Two ballistic missiles were later fired into the general location of the USS Mason from the Iran-backed Houthi [sans Blowfish] rebel-controlled territory in Yemen, landing around 10 nautical miles from the ship. It's likely they missed hitting the destroyer on purpose lest it cause a serious escalation that would have sent them to a place called Smithereens.

The Central Park tanker, operated by Zodiac Maritime, was carrying a cargo of phosphoric acid with a multinational crew of 22 sailors onboard, the company said.

Zodiac Maritime is part of Israeli billionaire Eyal Ofer’s Zodiac Group, although it is unclear if it was targeted by the assailants for this reason. But unless you were born yesterday, you can imagine that this may have had something to do with the attack.

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