( ) -q-21- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “Mideast-based 5th Fleet.” The U.S. Navy has seized over 2,100 assault rifles from a ship in the Gulf of Oman it believes came from Iran and were bound for Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels. [CutID: <Cuts> US-YEMEN-house-q-TUEam.mp3 Time: 21s Title: US-YEMEN-house-q-TUEam Out-cue: Mideast-based 5th Fleet] TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House […]
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US Navy says it seized Iran assault rifles bound for Yemen
( ) -q-21- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “Mideast-based 5th Fleet.”
The U.S. Navy has seized over 2,100 assault rifles from a ship in the Gulf of Oman it believes came from Iran and were bound for Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels.
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Out-cue: Mideast-based 5th Fleet]
TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting.
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VERBATIM: The seizure happened after a team from the USS Chinook, a Cyclone-class coastal patrol boat, boarded a traditional wooden sailing vessel known. They discovered the Kalashnikov-style rifles individually wrapped in green tarps aboard the ship. That’s according to comments by Commander Timothy Hawkins, a spokesman for the Navy’s Mideast-based 5th Fleet.