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Two ballistic missiles were fired from Houthi rebel-controlled Yemen toward a US warship in the Gulf of Aden, after the US Navy responded to a distress call from a commercial tanker that had been seized by armed individuals, the US military said Sunday.

Two ballistic missiles were fired from Houthi rebel-controlled Yemen toward a US warship in the Gulf of Aden, after the US Navy responded to a distress call from a commercial tanker that had been seized by armed individuals, the US military said Sunday.

The tanker, identified as the Central Park, had been carrying a cargo of phosphoric acid when its crew called for help that “they were under attack from an unknown entity,” the US Central Command said in a statement.

The USS Mason, a guided-missile destroyer, and allied ships from a counter-piracy task force that operates in the Gulf of Aden and off the coast of Somalia responded to the call for help and “demanded release of the vessel” upon arrival, Central Command said.

“Subsequently, five armed individuals debarked the ship and attempted to flee via their small boat,” said the statement posted on social media platform X.

  • Madison420@lemmy.worldEnglish
    616·
    10 months ago

    It’s not.

    Does the word ballistic materially change the subject of the article? No it’s an unnecessary adjective. And yes your example would be as well. They tried to make it sound worse, it’s a shitty Iranian missile fired well under maximum range it being ballistic is irrelevant aside from being an idiotic choice.

    Not at all. How exactly do you get that out of my comments.

    • schmidtster@lemmy.worldEnglish
      136·
      10 months ago

      How does telling you the type of missle make it sound worse? Because you think and want it to…?

      Any headline can be stripped down and made to be sensationalized if you can never ever use an adjective. It’s only sensationalized in your head since you want it to be, you’re the biased one here.

      How is my example sensationalized? Please explain to the rest of class so we can understand why you’re so biased here.

      • Madison420@lemmy.worldEnglish
        38·
        10 months ago

        For reasons already stated, it’s not hard to understand. You should read Chomsky if you don’t understand the importance of words.

        Again, remove ballistic and it changes nothing but adding it makes it sound worse. That’s sensationalism.

        There’s no bias and I’m pretty sure I told you why I’m my last response didn’t I .

          • Madison420@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            10 months ago

            Apparently not.

            And no they didn’t, propaganda is much older than England let alone the US and we’re certainly not the only ones to use it but way to prove that lack of critical thinking.