The Pentagon announced that it had conducted a lethal strike on Dec. 4 on a drug trafficking boat in the Eastern Pacific.
The U.S. Southern Command, which oversees U.S. military operations in the Caribbean and near Latin America, wrote in a Thursday social media post that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth directed Joint Task Force Southern Spear to conduct a “lethal kinetic strike” on a boat in international waters being operated by suspected narco-terrorists.
“Intelligence confirmed that the vessel was carrying illicit narcotics and transiting along a known narco-trafficking route in the Eastern Pacific,” U.S. Southern Command wrote, adding that four men aboard the boat died in the strike….