The US navy carried out a strike Thursday on a suspected drug boat in the Eastern Pacific, killing 4 individuals on board, in response to a social media submit from US Southern Command.
“Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel in international waters operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization. Intelligence confirmed that the vessel was carrying illicit narcotics and transiting along a known narco-trafficking route in the Eastern Pacific. Four male narco-terrorists aboard the vessel were killed,” the post says.
Alongside the submit is a 21-second-long video exhibiting the boat being struck.
Thursday’s strike comes as the Pentagon is going through bipartisan criticism over a September assault on an alleged drug vessel in which the navy fired follow-up strikes, killing surviving crew members.
US Navy Adm. Frank “Mitch” Bradley briefed leaders on Capitol Hill Thursday about that incident.
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