NPR⁠84%

Yemen Houthi rebels say latest US strikes killed 2, day after Trump posted bomb video ⁠86%

By The Associated Press⁠63%

4/6/2025, 12:53:39 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 30 faulty reasoning types, including Post Hoc (False Cause), Ambiguity (Equivocation), and Appeal to Authority, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 22.3% saturation with 189 hits. Analysis detected 2,106 faulty-reasoning hits from 849 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 77.9% and a BS Rank of ⁠86% (3,162 of 21,886 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 85.60% of the article peer group.

A Yemeni girl visits the graves of Houthis during Eid al-Fitr marking the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday, March 30, 2025. 
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Suspected U.S. airstrikes killed at least two people overnight in a stronghold of Yemen's Houthi rebels, the group said Sunday, while a bombing video posted by U.S. 
President Donald Trump suggested casualties in the overall campaign may be higher than the rebels acknowledge. 
The strikes in Saada killed two people and wounded nine others, with footage aired by the Houthis' al-Masirah satellite news channel showing a strike collapsing what appeared to be a two-story building. 
The Iranian-backed Houthis aired no footage from inside the building, which they described as a solar power shop. 
The intense campaign of airstrikes in Yemen under Trump targeting the rebels over their attacks on shipping in Mideast waters stemming from the Israel-Hamas war has killed at least 69 people, according to casualty figures released by the Houthis. 
Trump bombing footage suggests rebel leaders targeted 
However, the Houthis have not acknowledged any casualties from their security and military leadership — something challenged after an online video posted by Trump. 
Early Saturday, Trump posted what appeared to be black-and-white video from a drone of a group of over 70 people gathered in a circle. 
An explosion detonates during the 25-second video, with a massive crater left in its wake. 
"These Houthis gathered for instructions on an attack," Trump claimed, without offering a location for the attack or any other details about the strike. 
"Oops, there will be no attack by these Houthis! 
They will never sink our ships again!" 
The U.S. military's Central Command, which oversees America's Mideast military operations, has not published the video, nor offered any specific details about the strikes it has conducted since March 15. 
The White House has said there have been over 200 strikes so far targeting the Houthis. 
The rebel-controlled SABA news agency in Yemen, citing an anonymous source, described the bombing as targeting "a social Eid visit in Hodeida governorate." 
Muslims across the world just celebrated Eid al-Fitr, the festival at the end of the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. 
SABA had published images of other commanders meeting fighters during the holiday, though not any high-level Houthi officials. 
"Those present at that gathering had no connection to the operations carried out by the (Houthis), which are implementing the decision to ban navigation on ships linked to the American and Israeli enemy," the SABA report said, adding that the attack killed and wounded "dozens." 
However, the Houthis previously have not acknowledged any strike on Hodeida during that time with such a high casualty count. 
The SABA report also did not describe those killed as civilians, suggesting they did have ties to the rebels' security or military forces. 
Hodeida has been a site of Houthi attacks into the Red Sea. 
Moammar al-Eryani, the information minister for Yemen's exiled government opposing the Houthis, claimed the strike killed some 70 Houthi fighters and leaders, as well as "experts" from Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard. 
He offered no evidence for the claim, though Iran has backed the Houthis in the war. 
Neither the Iranian government nor the Guard has not acknowledged the attack. 
Mohammed al-Basha, a Yemen expert of the Basha Report risk advisory firm, cited social media condolence notices suggesting a colonel overseeing police stations for the Houthis in Hodeida had been killed in the strike Trump highlighted, alongside his two brothers. 
"The strikes have expanded significantly, hitting multiple governorates simultaneously, alongside telecommunications infrastructure, command nodes, properties tied to senior Houthi leadership and previously untouched tunnel networks in mountainous areas," al-Basha told The Associated Press. 
"We've also seen direct targeting of Houthi force gatherings, indicating a more aggressive and evolving shift in the targeting strategy," al-Basha said. 
Intense US bombings began nearly a month ago 
An AP review has found the new American operation against the Houthis under Trump appears more extensive than those under former U.S. 
President Joe Biden, as Washington moves from solely targeting launch sites to firing at ranking personnel and dropping bombs on cities. 
The new campaign of airstrikes started after the rebels threatened to begin targeting "Israeli" ships again over Israel blocking aid entering the Gaza Strip. 
The rebels have loosely defined what constitutes an Israeli ship, meaning many vessels could be targeted. 
The Houthis targeted more than 100 merchant vessels with missiles and drones, sinking two of them and killing four sailors from November 2023 until January of this year. 
They also launched attacks targeting American warships without success. 
The attacks greatly raised the profile of the Houthis, who faced economic problems and launched a crackdown targeting dissent and aid workers in Yemen amid a decadelong stalemated war that has torn apart the Arab world's poorest nation. 
The campaign shows no signs of stopping as the Trump administration repeatedly has linked its airstrikes on the Houthis to an effort to pressure Iran over its rapidly advancing nuclear program. 
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849 words analyzed.

Speakers

7speakers45%attributed speech467writer words
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Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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