American military property killed four people and destroyed another boat in one fourth Strike against alleged drug smugglersAccording to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Under the orders by Donald Trump, Hegseth directed a deadly, kinetic strike on a narco-smuggling vessel associated with terrorist organizations nominated away from the coast of Venezuela on Friday morning.
Hegseth, with a video of destruction in a post on X, accused the United States of “transporting adequate amounts of intoxicants” to “to poison our people”.
“Our intelligence, without a doubt, confirmed that this vessel was smuggling intoxicating substances, people on the ship were narco-attentive, and they were working on a known narco-trafficking transit route,” he wrote. “These attacks will continue until the attacks on American people end !!!!”
The fourth such strike in the attack is that has killed more than 20 people within the previous month.
Congress members from Pentagon recently obtained by another notice Independent This suggests that the United States is formally engaged in a “armed conflict” with drug cartel, which the Trump administration has labeled “illegal fighters”.
The undefined notice claims extraordinary warfare for the alleged drug smugglers to justify military attacks, who have legalized legal investigation and alleged that the administration and defense officials have committed extraordinary murder.
According to the notice, the administration says that the President has “determined” that Cartel is “nonstate armed groups”, whose functions “form an armed attack against the United States” and are now engaged in a “non-non-cosmopolitan struggle”-or war with a non-state actor.
The administration cites a law required to report to MPs about the conflicts associated with American military personnel. An official of the White House told Independent The administration is following the requirements under the National Defense Authority Act to inform the Congress of any attack related to the armed forces.
After the news of notice to Congress, White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly told Independent The President “worked in accordance with the law of armed conflict to protect our countries from those who tried to bring deadly poison on our coast, and they are reaching their promises to end these national security threats by taking more Americans and killing more Americans.”
The notice stated that defense officers have been ordered to conduct operations against them as per law of armed conflict. “
According to the notice, “The United States has now reached an important point, where we should use self -defense and force in protecting others against the attacks going on by these nominated terrorist organizations.”
It is not clear what evidence has been collected by the United States to justify the attacks; The White House and Defense Officers have refused to share additional information about the attacks citing national security concerns.
Legal experts and former National Security Officers have disputed the President’s legal authority to introduce extraordinary murders against suspected drug smugglers, raising the resulting questions over the increasing struggle of the administration with Venezuela and the President’s anti -immigration agenda.