Another US strike in Caribbean targets alleged drug-running boat, killing 6, Hegseth says
By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN Associated Press WASHINGTON AP Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth communicated Friday that the U S military conducted its th strike on a vessel suspected of carrying drugs overnight killing six people and bringing the death toll of the campaign against drug cartels to at least people Related Articles Social Guard recipients get a cost-of-living boost in average of per month US inflation stays elevated but prices rose less than feared last month In current times in History October the United Nations officially launches How cheaters rigged high-stakes poker games with the mob and sports pros according to agents Trump backs off planned surge of federal agents into San Francisco after talking to the mayor In a post to social media Hegseth explained that the vessel was operated by the Tren de Aragua gang and the strike occurred in the Caribbean The pace of the strikes has quickened in fresh days from one every scarce weeks in September when they first began to three in one week now Two of the strikes this week were also carried out in the eastern Pacific expanding the area in which the military was willing to conduct the strikes In a -second black and white video of the strike that was posted to social media a small boat can be seen apparently sitting motionless on the water when a long thin projectile descends on it resulting in an explosion The video ends before the explosion dies down enough for the remains of the boat to become visible again In his post Hegseth revealed that the strike was conducted in international waters and boasted that it was the first one conducted at night If you are a narco-terrorist smuggling drugs in our hemisphere we will treat you like we treat Al-Qaeda Hegseth revealed in the post Day or NIGHT we will map your networks track your people hunt you down and kill you The strike also came hours after the U S military flew a pair of supersonic heavy bombers up to the coast of Venezuela on Thursday The flight was just the preponderance new move in what has been an unusually large military buildup in the Caribbean Sea and the waters off Venezuela that has raised speculation that President Donald Trump could try to topple Venezuelan President Nicol s Maduro Maduro faces charges of narcoterrorism in the U S
