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CVS Isle of the World. I'm John Bachelor. An attack on a warship, a US Navy warship, the

U.S. Mason, that is an Arley Burke-class destroyer.

In other words, it's a battleship, best in the fleet for responding to major enemy advances. And we go to a report from Bill Rajo a senior fellow for

the Foundation for the Defense of democracies attacking the U.S.S. Mason with

a sophisticated anti-ship missile was not Russia, certainly not Iran.

It was the Huthies, men of the desert,

that long-ranging civil war, understood to be surrogates.

But, Bill, a very good evening to you.

What do we know about the attack on the Mason? What triggered it? What

happened? Good evening to you. Good evening, John. Yes, and so the U.S.S.

Mason is an Arley Burke class destroyer. It is patrolling in the Red Sea, I'm sorry, in the

Gulf of Aidan in order to keep shipping safe.

It was responding to a call from a attempted hijacking

on the MV Central Park.

It's a cargo ship. the US military agent of press release on this. They don't identify who actually, the US military

into press release on this. they only identify who tried to

hijack it but we all know the whoopies have already hijacked one ship and

attacked another the as the destroyer and a chap in a chap in as the mason and a Japanese worship approached

They the fighters or the hijackers got off the ship

five of them were captured, and then shortly afterward,

two anti-ship ballistic missiles were launched

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