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President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social Friday that he ordered a lethal strike on a vessel allegedly linked to a designated terrorist organization “conducting narco-trafficking” in the U.S. Southern Command’s area of responsibility.
The strike, carried out on a vessel confirmed by intelligence to be trafficking illicit narcotics, left three narco-terrorists dead, Trump said in the post, along with a video showing the moment the boat was struck and became engulfed in flames.
“On my Orders, the Secretary of War ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility,” Trump posted to his Truth Social account Friday evening.
“Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking illicit narcotics, and was transiting along a known narcotrafficking passage enroute to poison Americans.”
US MILITARY CARRIES OUT SECOND STRIKE ON VENEZUELAN NARCOTERRORISTS IN INTERNATIONAL WATERS
President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social Friday that he ordered a lethal strike on a vessel linked to a designated terrorist organization “conducting narco-trafficking” in the U.S. Southern Command’s area of responsibility. (@realDonaldTrump via Truth Social)
The strike took place in international waters, and no U.S. forces were harmed, he added.