US conducts strike on drug-trafficking boat
(MENAFN) The United States conducted a strike on Friday targeting what officials described as “a narco-trafficking vessel” operating off Venezuela’s coast, according to Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth.
“Earlier this morning, on President (Donald) Trump’s orders, I directed a lethal, kinetic strike on a narco-trafficking vessel affiliated with Designated Terrorist Organizations in the USSOUTHCOM (US Southern Command) area of responsibility,” Hegseth said on the social media platform X.
He confirmed that “four male narco-terrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike, and no U.S. forces were harmed in the operation.”
The attack took place in international waters near Venezuela as the vessel was allegedly carrying “substantial amounts of narcotics - headed to America to poison our people,” Hegseth added.
This marks the fourth U.S. strike in recent weeks against vessels suspected of transporting illegal drugs. “These strikes will continue until the attacks on the American people are over!!!!” Hegseth declared.
President Donald Trump praised the operation, claiming it thwarted a large-scale drug shipment from reaching the United States. “A boat loaded with enough drugs to kill 25,000 to 50,000 people was stopped, early this morning off the Coast of Venezuela, from entering American Territory,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt stated that the president authorized these actions against Venezuelan drug cartels in line with his duty to safeguard U.S. interests abroad and advance national security and foreign policy objectives.
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