Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced the 14th U.S. military strike on drug trafficking boats on Wednesday. Hegseth confirmed that four narco-terrorists were killed in the strike, bringing the total number of individuals killed in the U.S. strikes to 61.
Sharing a video of Wednesday’s strike in a post on X, formerly Twitter, Hegseth said the U.S. military executed a “lethal kinetic strike on yet another narco-trafficking vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization” in the Eastern Pacific region. The secretary of war explained that the drug trafficking boat, like all of the other drug trafficking boats targeted by President Donald Trump’s administration, was known to be “involved in illicit narcotics smuggling” and was transporting narcotics along a narco-trafficking route.
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In his post, Hegseth announced that four male narco-terrorists were on the vessel at the time of Wednesday’s strike and that all four of the narco-terrorists were killed in the attack. He confirmed that the strike was carried out in international waters and that no U.S. forces were harmed during the strike.
“The Western Hemisphere is no longer a safe haven for narco-terrorists bringing drugs to our shores to poison Americans,” Hegseth stated. “The Department of War will continue to hunt them down and eliminate them wherever they operate.”
According to Fox News, Wednesday’s strike in the Eastern Pacific marks the 14th U.S. military strike launched by the Trump administration against drug trafficking boats in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean. The outlet noted that the strikes have reportedly killed 61 individuals, and the Pentagon has not yet released the identifies of the individuals killed in the military strikes.
Fox News reported that in addition to the 61 individuals killed in the military strikes, three individuals have also been reported to have survived the strikes and that at least two of the three survivors from the Trump administration’s strikes were later sent back to their home countries.
