"Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has revealed that the United States has conducted a fourth lethal, kinetic strike on a boat in the Caribbean Sea, accusing the vessel of carrying narcotics. In a Friday post on the social media platform X, Hegseth shared a video of the attack, which he identified as taking place near the coast of Venezuela. The footage shows a small, narrow boat clipping across the waves before the air strike halts its momentum, leaving the vessel engulfed in flames."
"Hegseth explained he directed the attack. Four male narco-terrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike, and no U.S. forces were harmed in the operation, he wrote. The strike was conducted in international waters just off the coast of Venezuela while the vessel was transporting substantial amounts of narcotics headed to America to poison our people. The latest attack follows three similar US air strikes last month, the first of which took place on September 2. Eleven people were killed in that initial attack."
"In each case, the administration of President Donald Trump has argued that the boats' occupants were narcotics traffickers headed to the US, though no evidence has been provided for those assertions and the suspects have not yet been identified. That assertion was repeated in Friday's announcement from Hegseth, who said that the US intelligence community had identified the latest target. He also pledged to continue carrying out air strikes on boats in the Caribbean region until the drug trafficking ended."
The United States carried out a fourth lethal kinetic airstrike on a small boat in the Caribbean Sea near the coast of Venezuela, accusing the vessel of transporting substantial narcotics. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth shared video of the strike, said he directed it, and reported four male narco-terrorists were killed with no U.S. casualties. The strike occurred in international waters while the boat was reportedly en route to the United States. The attack follows three similar US strikes in September that killed eleven, three, and three people respectively. US officials assert intelligence identified the target and pledge continued strikes until drug trafficking ends.
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