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The US Navy reportedly rescued two survivors and is now taking custody Trump administration strike This happened yesterday against alleged drug smugglers in the Caribbean.
After this a search and rescue team of the Navy was deployed strike on thursday Two US officials reported that a semi-submersible vehicle was attacked, killing two people and leaving two survivors. the new York TimesThe survivors are now in custody on a navy ship in international waters, officials said.
The administration has accepted strikeBut has not commented on the reported presence of survivors.
“We attacked a submarine and it was a drug-carrying submarine specially built to transport large quantities of drugs,” the president said Friday. “As you understand, this was not an innocent group of people. “I don’t know many people who have submarines.”
Independent have contacted the Navy For comment.
The Pentagon declined to comment and referred questions to the White House. Independent Comments have also been sought.
Reported detentions could lead to legal challenges for the US, including holding alleged survivors in indefinite wartime detention or transfer to military or criminal authorities for prosecution.
The latter option could subject the strikes to legal scrutiny or highlight details involved in planning them that have, until now, largely been kept out of the public eye.
“Although in theory there may be a case for military custody, I think the detainees in this case are likely to be turned over to law enforcement and, if the facts support doing so, will be processed with a view to prosecuting them in civilian court on drug trafficking charges,” said General Charles Dunlap, a former deputy Air Force deputy judge advocate. told Washington Post US options from here.
“The biggest issue today is the lack of transparency,” he said.
Before Thursday’s attack, 27 people had been killed in the region as part of the Trump administration’s recent anti-drug campaign, which the White House has controversially declared a formal armed conflict against drug cartels.
Details about what intelligence the US was using to carry out these attacks are scarce and the names of those killed have not been released.
Chad Joseph, 26, from Trinidad and Tobago, may be one of six people killed in a similar attack earlier this week, according to his family.
Joseph, a fisherman from the village of Las Cuevas, had been living in Venezuela in recent months. His family said he frequently traveled to the Caribbean for his work as a fisherman.
“I don’t want to believe this is my baby,” her mother, Lenore Burnley, told the new York Times“Is it really true?”
Joseph’s family has denied that he is a drug smuggler.
These attacks have drawn bipartisan criticism from Congress, which has sole authority to declare war and has not authorized any new hostilities in support of the Caribbean operation.
On Friday, a group of senators said they would force a vote to stop the Trump administration from attacking Venezuela, which the White House accuses of working in coordination with drug cartels.
Admiral Alvin Hosley, head of the US Southern Command, which is monitoring the attacks, said, Will retire at the end of the yearAccording to the Defense Department, after Hosley reportedly expressed concerns about the attacks.
Venezuela, whose citizens are believed to have been killed in earlier attacks on the boats, has sharply criticized the US military buildup in the region and organized their own troops and militia forces,
Legal observers have warned that the strikes may not be legal, despite the White House insisting the US Formally engaged in “armed conflict” with drug cartels The President has labeled them “unlawful combatants,” unleashing extraordinary wartime powers.
“All available evidence shows that President Trump’s deadly attacks in the Caribbean are murder pure and simple,” Jeffrey Stein, director of the ACLU’s National Security Project, said in a recent statement. “The public deserves to know how our government is legitimizing these attacks, and, given the stakes, immediate public scrutiny of its clearly radical principles is warranted.”
President Trump told reporters on Wednesday that he has authorized CIA missions inside Venezuela as part of the anti-narcotics crackdown.
The President said the US is considering a land campaign against Venezuela after the naval attacks.
The President claimed on Friday that Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro has made a proposal to reduce tensions in the region.
“They’ve offered everything,” Trump said. SaidReferring to Maduro. “You know why? Because he doesn’t want to mess with the United States.”