A video of the attack was shown to members of Congress on Capitol Hill behind closed doors on Thursday, days after reports surfaced that the commander overseeing the operation ordered a second strike to take out two survivors to comply with Hegseth's direction that everyone should be killed. The September 2 attack was the first of 22 on vessels in the southern Caribbean and Pacific carried out by the U.S. military as part of what the Trump administration calls a campaign to stem the flow of illegal drugs into the United States. The Trump administration has framed the attacks as a war with drug cartels, calling them armed groups and saying the drugs being carried to the United States kill Americans.
Author: Patricia Zengerle
Published at: 2025-12-06 22:50:00
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