US EditionTrump Boasts Destruction of ‘Drug-Carrying Submarine’ Capable of Killing '25,000 Americans': ‘Will Not tolerate...’
The US conducted its sixth strike in weeks on drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean, killing two and preventing an estimated 25,000 American deaths, officials said.
- On Thursday, the United States destroyed a suspected 'drug-carrying' submarine in the Caribbean Sea, navigating a well-known narcotrafficking transit route, the White House said.
- The administration defended its strikes on drug-carrying vessels as part of the US drug interdiction policy, which Donald Trump has emphasised to stop drugs flowing from Latin America.
- The pattern shows 27 people were killed in the previous five strikes, reflecting a recent campaign targeting trafficking vessels nearly weekly.
- Two survivors will be repatriated to Ecuador and Colombia for "detention and prosecution", and Colombian President Gustavo Petro confirmed a detainee will be processed under the law.
- International critics and the president conflicted over the strikes as UN-appointed human rights experts called them `extrajudicial executions`, while Donald Trump said `At least 25,000 Americans would die if I allowed this submarine to come ashore`.
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US strikes 'drug-carrying submarine' as Donald Trump wages war on 'narcoterrorists'
The US has launched military strikes on a submarine transporting illegal drugs to America.The footage, posted on social media by Donald Trump, was accompanied by a lengthy caption where the US President declared war on "narcoterrorists".The US President wrote: "It was my great honor to destroy a very large DRUG-CARRYING SUBMARINE that was navigating towards the United States on a well-known narcotrafficking transit route. US intelligence confirm…
The U.S. Army struck a ship suspected of carrying drugs on Thursday, killing two people and taking two survivors into custody.
Since early September, the United States has conducted at least six strikes in the Caribbean, killing 27 people.
Trump boasts destruction of ‘drug-carrying submarine’ capable of killing '25,000 Americans': ‘Will not tolerate...’
US President Donald Trump emphasised his firm stance against narcoterrorism on Sunday. Boasting destruction of ‘drug-carrying submarine,' he claimed that four narcoterrorists were on board the vessel.
The US Department of Defense has released footage of a drone strike two days ago on a semi-sunken cartel ship in the southern Caribbean Sea off the coast of Venezuela, which the Pentagon said was carrying a large amount of illicit drugs, including fentanyl.
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