""The president's overall perspective is that, if there is a terrorist threat to the homeland of the United States, he trusts the military to take that threat out - whether it's a drug boat off the coast of Venezuela or an al-Qaeda terrorist in the Middle East," a senior Trump administration official told Axios. Driving the news: On Tuesday, the U.S. Navy blew up a suspected drug-running boat off Venezuela, killing its crew of 11, according to Trump and Pentagon officials."
"Until now, the goal was to try to capture drug runners and their narcotics to build a case for federal prosecution. What happened Tuesday was "a murder anywhere in the world," Colombia's president, Gustavo Petro, wrote on X. "We have been capturing civilians who transport drugs for decades without killing them. Those who transport drugs are not the big narcos, but the very poor, young people from the Caribbean and the Pacific.""
The U.S. Navy fired a missile that destroyed a suspected 'go-fast' drug-running boat off Venezuela, killing its 11 crew members. The strike marked the first known destruction of such a boat by a military missile. The president views terrorist threats to the U.S. homeland as matters for the military to eliminate, including drug boats and al-Qaeda operatives. The operation represented a departure from prior law-enforcement interdictions that sought capture and prosecution. Colombian leaders and human rights advocates condemned the killings as murder and urged arrest and prosecution of suspects. The president signed an order designating certain cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.
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