Four people were killed in the latest strike on a boat alleged to be smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea, the U.S. military announced on Wednesday (March 25) via the New York Post.
The attack brought the death toll in strikes by the U.S. military on alleged narco-vessels to at least 163. President Donald Trump‘s administration has targeted alleged “narcoterrorists” since early September and the continued efforts now coincide with ‘Operation Epic Fury,’ the ongoing war in Iran.
“Applying total systemic friction on the cartels. On March 25, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Four male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear,” the U.S. Southern Command wrote on its X account, along with an unclassified video of the strike.
The military didn’t provide any evidence that the vessel was transporting drugs at the time of publication Thursday (March 26). Trump has said the United States was in an “armed conflict” with Latin America cartels and justified the attacks as a necessary action to combat the flow of drugs into the United States amid a high rate of fatal overdoses.
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