‘We Will Escalate’: Houthi Chief Announces Terror Campaign Against U.S. Warships

March 17, 2025 — Breitbart.com reports: “The leader of Ansarullah, the jihadist terror organization commonly known as the Houthis, announced a new campaign ‘against American and Israeli oppression’ in an unhinged speech on Sunday, threatening to ‘escalate’ against American military assets in the Middle East.

Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, the head of the Houthi terrorist organization governing most of Yemen, was responding to an airstrike campaign against his group that President Donald Trump announced on Saturday. In a message published on his social media outlet Truth Social, Trump said he had approved ‘aerial attacks on the terrorists’ bases, leaders, and missile defenses’ in response to the years-long Houthi initiative to disrupt global trade passing through and near the Red Sea in solidarity with Hamas. The Houthis have been attacking commercial ships — including, on some occasions, ships affiliated with their allies such as Russia, China, and Iran — since shortly after Hamas invaded Israel in October 2023, killing over 1,000 civilians in an unprecedented massacre…”  (More bragging and blustering from the Houthis.  In 2016 the Global Firepower list puts the United States as the number 1 military power in the world.  Israel ranks as number 16, and Iran is ranked as number 21.  The Houthis are rapidly discovering this to be true.

According to The Times of Israel: US President Donald Trump on Wednesday (3/26/25) claimed Yemen’s Houthi rebels now ‘want peace’ after more than a week of US airstrikes, which he said have ‘been very, very strong.’ 

‘The Houthis are looking to do something. They want to know, ‘How do we stop? How do we stop? How can we have peace?’ The Houthis want peace because they’re getting the h**l knocked out of them,’ he told reporters in the Oval Office.

‘The Houthis are dying for peace. They don’t want this… They were knocking ships out of the ocean…. In the Suez Canal, they only have about 20% of the ships going through. They have to go through a different way, which takes weeks of travel, and that really affects commerce.’  See the next two reports.)

U.S. dispatches second aircraft carrier to the Red Sea

March 24, 2025 — SpaceWar.com reports: “The United States is dispatching a second aircraft carrier to the Middle East in an effort to ramp up defense efforts against Houthi militia aggression in the commercial shipping lanes of the Red Sea.

The move could presage an increase in U.S. bombing efforts against Yemen and its proxies in the region.

The U.S. will send the USS Carl Vinson and its several destroyers to the Red Sea next week.

It’s the second time in 6 months that the United States has had two aircraft carrier strike groups in the region at the same time, but the first time under the current Trump administration.

The deployment is an extension of a fresh campaign to strike targets in Yemen, during which the United States has struck dozens of sites in the region, many of which have been munitions sites, including missile launch and storage locations, according to the U.S. Defense Department.

Trump claimed on social media that the Iran-backs Houthis would be ‘completely annihilated’ by U.S. forces and warned Tehran to ‘immediately’ stop supplying the militants with military equipment…” 

Houthis claim attack on American warships; US scoffs they missed by ‘over 100 miles’

March 18, 2025 — The Times of Israel reports: “Yemen’s Houthis on Tuesday claimed their third attack on American warships in 48 hours, despite US strikes on the Iran-backed rebels that have sparked mass protests.

The Houthis said on Telegram they had targeted the USS Harry S. Truman carrier group with missiles and drones, making the attack the ‘third in the past 48 hours’ in the northern Red Sea.

A US defense official said the Houthis ‘continue to communicate lies and disinformation,’ adding the Iran-backed group is ‘well known for false claims minimizing the results of our attacks while exaggerating the successes of theirs.’

US Air Force Lieutenant General Alexus Grynkewich earlier told reporters it was ‘hard to confirm’ the attacks claimed by the Houthis as the rebels were missing their targets ‘by over 100 miles’ (160 kilometers) …”