President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that a U.S. military strike took out six alleged narco-terrorists off the coast of Venezuela.
President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the U.S. military carried out another strike on a suspected drug vessel off the coast of Venezuela, killing six suspected smugglers.
« Under my Standing Authorities as Commander-in-Chief, this morning, the Secretary of War, ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility — just off the Coast of Venezuela. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics, was associated with illicit narcoterrorist networks, and was transiting along a known DTO route », Trump wrote Tuesday on Truth Social.
« The strike was conducted in International Waters, and six male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike », Trump said. « No U.S. Forces were harmed. »
The strikes come after the White House sent lawmakers a memo Sept.
