Alleged missile attack on USS Mason

False-flag attack?

 * Yemen's Houthi movement denies attack on U.S. warship: official - Reuters, October 10, 2016
 * ''"(The Houthi movement) denies targeting any ship off Yemeni waters," a Houthi official told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.
 * New Gulf of Tonkin Incident? US Destroyer 'Attacked Off Yemen Coast'
 * ''To the naked eye, the alleged attack on the USS Mason bears an eerie superficial resemblance to the Gulf of Tonkin incident, the August 1964 'attack' on the USS Maddox (since proven to have been a false flag operation) which gave US President Lyndon Johnson Congressional authorization to begin military operations against Vietnam.
 * مصدر عسكري ينفي استهداف القوة الصاروخية لأي بارجة قبالة السواحل اليمنية (Military source denies targeting any warship off the Yemeni coast with missile) - SABA, October 10, 2016

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 * US swears revenge on Houthis for attack on warships, Al Masdar News, October 11, 2016


 * “Counterstrike, retaliatory strike: I can tell you that those things are things that we are looking at,” Captain Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, said on Tuesday. “We want very much to get to the bottom of what happened,” said Davis. “We're going to find out who did this and we will take action accordingly.” “We will make sure that anybody who interferes with freedom of navigation and puts US Navy ship at risk understands they do so at their own peril,” he stated.