The US carried out a deadly strike against drug carriers in the Caribbean, killing at least 3
The American military did another one A deadly drug strike blamed on Drug Smugglers In the Caribbean, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Saturday.
Hegsseth, in a social media post, said a US-based terrorist organization allegedly worked with the ship but did not name which group was targeted. He said three people were killed in the strike.
At least 15 such strikes were carried out by the US military in the Caribbean or the eastern Pacific since the beginning of September. The US military has now killed at least 64 people in the strikes.
“This ship – like all the others – known by our intelligence to be involved in narcotics trafficking, they passed the known method of narco trafficking, and in possession of narcotics,” said Hegsseth in public relations.
Hegseth said the sharps were injured in the strike.
The news comes after the Pentagon announced on Oct. 24 that it will be sending the USS Gerald R. Ford, the Navy’s newest and most advanced aircraft carrier, to Latin American waters. This greatly increases the number of service members and ships dedicated to the Trump Administration’s campaign dealing with narcotics traffickers.
President Trump has prepared this attack as a necessary increase in the flow of drugs in the United States. He also said that the US has “decorated” conflicts with drug cartels, which rely on the same legal authority used by the authorities in the so-called war on terror after September 11, 2001.
The White House also interrupted lawmakers’ demands that the administration release more information about the legal nature of the strikes, as well as more details about which cartels were targeted and which people were killed.
Hegsseth, in his post Saturday announcing the latest strike, said “narco-terrorists are bringing drugs to our shores to bring back American Americans” and the Department of Defense “will treat them the same way we treat Al-Qaeda.”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro said in an exclusive interview with CBS News On Oct. 24 That some of those killed in the US strike were other innocent fish, and he repeated his accusation that the attack violates international law.
Senate Democrats renewed their request for more information about the strikes in a letter Friday to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Hegseth.
“We also request that you provide all legal opinions related to these strikes and a list of groups or other entities that the President is inclined to,” the senators wrote.
Among those who signed the letter was Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Jack Reed, Jeanne Shaheen, Mark Cooks, Patty Murray and Brian Schatz.
The letter says that so far management has “selectively shared what was sometimes conflicting information” with some members, “while excluding others.”
Earlier Friday, the chairman of the Republican and the Democrat Democrat in the committee of the services of the Senate were issued in HEGSETE NO-OCTORE Administres addressed to the Sentain Administrations in their preparation in the use of the military.
The Hegseths are currently touring Asia, meeting on Sunday with Vietnamese President Luong Cuong.
