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Trump administration is sending two people back home Survived US military attack The President on Thursday confirmed action against a submarine allegedly running drugs in the Caribbean.
“The two surviving terrorists are being returned to their countries of origin, Ecuador and Colombia, for detention and prosecution,” President Trump wrote on Truth Social on Saturday. “No US forces were harmed in this attack.”
Two other people were killed in the long-range strike, Trump said, bringing the total number of deaths in such recent attacks to 29.
The US Navy reportedly rescued survivors after Thursday’s attack.
A naval search and rescue team was deployed and the survivors were detained aboard a naval ship in international waters, officials said. the new York Times,
The detainees have raised complex legal questions for the US over whether to hold survivors as indefinite prisoners of war or transfer them 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.
Before Thursday’s attack, 27 people had been killed in the region as part of the Trump administration’s recent anti-drug operation, 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.”