{"id":14324,"date":"2023-11-28T13:13:49","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T18:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.businessupturn.com\/?p=14324"},"modified":"2023-11-28T13:13:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T18:13:49","slug":"u-s-says-somali-pirates-might-be-responsible-for-hijacking-israel-linked-tanker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/u-s-says-somali-pirates-might-be-responsible-for-hijacking-israel-linked-tanker\/14324\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. says Somali pirates might be responsible for hijacking Israel linked tanker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has said that a group of attackers who tried to seize an Israel \u2013 linked cruise over the weekend were Somali pirates rather than the Houthi rebels, which were earlier reported.<\/p>\n<p>Pentagon spokesperson Brigadier General Patrick Ryder, on Monday, said United States has not yet ruled the Houthi connection into hijacking the vessel by five armed men over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re continuing to assess, but initial indications that these five individuals are Somali,\u201d stated Ryder. He added that it is clearly a piracy-related incident.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Navy forces thwarted the capture of the tanker after it was boarded by armed men, who were captured after U.S. warship Mason arrived on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The attempted hijacking on Israel \u2013 linked vessel comes at a time when Yemen\u2019s Iran-backed Houthi rebels have carried out a series of raids on the ships in the region, as the U.S. also claimed that ballistic missiles were fired from Houthi-controlled Yemen shortly after the attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has said that a group of attackers who tried to seize an Israel \u2013 linked cruise over\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":14644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4255],"class_list":["post-14324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-israel-ship-hijacked"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}