US EditionUS military conducts 16th Eastern Pacific strike, killing two suspected traffickers, Hegseth says
- On Tuesday, U.S. forces conducted a strike in the eastern Pacific Ocean that killed two people, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, adding President Donald Trump authorised the attack.
- After designating cartels as terrorist organisations earlier this year, the administration says the United States is in an "armed conflict" with drug cartels and targets the Eastern Pacific cocaine route from Colombia, Ecuador and Mexico.
- The campaign has killed at least 66 people in at least 16 attacks, while the Pentagon has deployed eight military vessels and the USS Gerald R. Ford carrier.
- Colombia recalled its ambassador and halted some U.S. arms purchases while urging Washington to cease attacks, with ambassador Daniel Garcia-Pena saying, `Under no circumstances can one justify that kind of threats and accusations that have no basis whatsoever.`
- Critics warn the strikes test sovereignty, due process, and executive war powers far from declared battlefields, while last month the ACLU and CCR sought DOJ OLC guidance amid scarce public evidence.
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Hegseth Announces 16th Deadly 'Drug Boat' Strike
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced yet another deadly strike on a boat accused of ferrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, coming the same day an aircraft carrier began heading to the region in a new expansion of military firepower, the AP reports. The attack Tuesday killed two people aboard...
In the Pacific, the U.S. military once again attacked a suspected drug smuggler boat, killing two people, once again exposing itself to the charge of violating international law.
The United States has carried out an attack on a boat in the Pacific Ocean, says Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. "No cartel terrorist stands a chance against the United States military," he writes on X.
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der Standard DEAccording to the U.S. Secretary of Defense, the boat had transported drugs on a known smuggling route, which could not be independently checked at first.
The U.S. military killed two people in a new attack on an alleged drug-trafficking vessel in international waters of the Pacific Ocean, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reported on Tuesday. The U.S. claims that it has so far destroyed at least 17 ships: 16 boats and a semi-submersible, but Washington has shown no evidence that its targets were trafficking narcotics or posing a threat to the country. Attacks began in early September and so far leav…
The U.S. forces once again attacked a boat that was on a smuggling route. According to Pete Hegseth, two people were killed.
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