Washington, Oct 28 (EFE) - The U.S. Army killed fourteen people in an attack on four boats linked to drug trafficking, in an operation in international waters of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Colombia, the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, reported this Tuesday. «Yesterday, following instructions from President (Donald) Trump, the Department of War carried out three lethal kinetic attacks against four vessels operated by designated terrorist organizations (DTOs) trafficking narcotics in the Eastern Pacific,» wrote the head of the Pentagon on X. Hegseth stated that eight «narcoterrorists» were aboard the vessels during the first attack, four during the second operation, and three during the third. This is the eleventh reported strike against vessels allegedly carrying drugs that the Trump administration has carried out since it began its anti-narcotics operations, first in the Caribbean and then in the Pacific. The U.S. Army killed fourteen people in an attack on four boats linked to the […] The post «U.S. Offensive Kills 14 After Attacking Four Boats Linked to Drug Trafficking» was first published on La Verdad Panamá. continues in the Pacific with an attack on four 'narco-boats' first appeared on Destino Panamá | Panama News. «A total of 14 narcoterrorists died during the three attacks, with one survivor,» added. «All attacks were carried out in international waters and there were no injuries among U.S. forces,» specified the Secretary of War, who insisted that the U.S. Southern Command (Southcom) immediately initiated protocols to rescue the sole survivor of the three attacks. «Mexican search and rescue authorities accepted the case and assumed responsibility for coordinating the rescue,» he stated. Hegseth assured that «narcoterrorists have killed more Americans than Al-Qaeda»: «They will be treated the same way,» he added. This is the eleventh reported strike against vessels allegedly carrying drugs that the Trump administration has carried out since it began its anti-narcotics operations, first in the Caribbean and then in the Pacific. U.S. attacks have claimed nearly sixty lives. According to his explanation, U.S. intelligence «knew about the four vessels» as they were «transiting known drug trafficking routes and carrying narcotics.» The attack took place in «international waters» of the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Colombia. This new strike adds another rung to the tensions between the U.S. To the military ships, the submarine, the destroyer, and the fighter jets, already present, the USS Gerald Ford, the most modern and important in the U.S. fleet, which the Pentagon deployed last Friday and is on its way, was added. Photo EFE
