Secretary of War Pete Hegseth reported Tuesday evening that U.S. forces conducted a military strike in the Eastern Pacific targeting a vessel suspected of drug trafficking, killing two individuals described as “narco-terrorists.”
“Today, at the direction of President [Donald] Trump, the Department of War carried out a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO),” Hegseth posted on X.
Hegseth said the strike was carried out in international waters after intelligence confirmed the vessel was involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, transiting along a known narco-trafficking route and carrying a shipment of narcotics.
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