"In a brief video released by Hegseth, a small boat, half-filled with brown packages, is seen moving along the water. Several seconds into the video, the boat explodes and is seen floating motionless on the water in flames. In his post, Hegseth took the unusual step of equating the alleged drug traffickers to the group behind the Sept. 11, 2001, attack."
"President Donald Trump has justified the strikes by asserting that the United States is engaged in an armed conflict with drug cartels and is relying on the same legal authority used by President George W. Bush's administration when it declared a war on terrorism after the Sept. 11 attack. However, the Trump administration has also sidestepped prosecuting any of the occupants of the alleged drug-running vessels after it returned two survivors of an earlier strike to their home countries of Ecuador and Colombia."
The U.S. military carried out an eighth strike against an alleged drug vessel in the eastern Pacific, killing two people and raising the combined death toll from the strikes to at least 34. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth posted a video showing a small boat carrying brown packages explode and burn, and he compared the cartels to Al Qaeda while vowing no refuge or forgiveness. President Donald Trump defended the strikes by asserting an armed conflict with drug cartels and invoking post-Sept. 11 legal authority. The administration has not pursued prosecutions and returned two survivors to Ecuador and Colombia, with Ecuador releasing one returned man for lack of evidence.
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