Vessel struck by US military off Venezuela was heading back to shore, AP sources say
Washington (AP) – USA military strike What the Trump administration says is a speed boat carrying drugs Venezuelan He came after the ship returned and returned to the shore, Congress members He demands more information about the provocative attack.
National Security officials, during a closed briefing in Capitol Hill this week, the boat carrying 11 people defined by the Trump administration Aragua gang in the train According to two people who were familiar with the situation on the condition of anonymity to discuss the special meeting, the members were fired many times by the US army. New York Times first reported the development.
The details that have emerged come as the Trump administration justifies the military strike, but a few senators, democrats and some Republicans showed dissatisfaction with the logic of the administration and questioned the legality of the action. They partially see the army as a potential excessive access to the executive authority by using the army for the purpose of law enforcement.
Democrats Legal Reasoning Competition for Strike
In a letter to the White House, you Tim Kaine from Virginia and two dozen other democratic senators, Trump said that the administration of Trump did not provide a “legitimate legal reason için for the strike.
Senators demand more information from the administration about the status and use of US military power.
Jack Jack Reed from the Senate Armed Services Committee’s senior democracy Rhode Island, Senator Jack Reed, said in a floor speech this week, “Our Armed Forces are not law enforcement officers,” he said.
“They are not stronger to hunt suspected criminals and kill them without judging, Reed said Reed.
The Trump administration claimed defense as a legal reason for the strike, Foreign Minister Marco Rubio defends drug cartels “It creates an instant threat” to the nation. The United States, which determines Aragua as a terrorist organization in the train More military strikes may be coming to drug goals Because he tries to “war” on the cartels.
White House spokesman Anna Kelly said in a statement, “President, our country to protect the poison to our coast to protect the laws of armed conflict in accordance with the laws of conflict.” He said. “He promises to seize cartels and to remove these national security threats from killing more Americans.”
“Evil Train, who tries to poison our homeland because everyone dies from more than 100,000 Americans every year, is strange that everyone is running for Aragua narcoterists.” He said.
Pentagon added that drug cartels will find “no safe harbor”.
“This strike sent a clear message: If you traffic the drugs towards our shores, the United States army will use every vehicle we have to stop cold,” he said.
Reed said in his speech that the administration did not offer evidence that this ship was attacked or even engaged in drug trafficking at that time ”. He also said that the administration did not offer a positive identity that the boat was venezi venezuela or a member of the train in the train, or a member of another cartel ”.
Authorities indicate that the army can start more strikes
It was not clear what the national security officials explained in their briefings about the identities of the boat and the evidence of the administration about the gang members. One of the people who knew the situation, some of the train on the boat is connected to Aragua, but said that it is not a member.
It was not uncertain whether the national security authorities gave information about the destination of the boat and that it was actually a drug carrying. People familiar with the issue have shown that Pentagon has the ability to perform additional military strikes in the region.
Democratic senators argued that the Congress did not allow the use of military force for this purpose.
Democratic senators claimed that the President wrote to the President, “Congress does not give a declaration of war or does not allow the use of military force for similar operations,” he said.
You. Rand Raul, R-Ky.
Paul, a Liberter, who has a challenging over -access history, especially in national security issues, argued that the US could not kill people suspected of mistake without the necessary process.
Venezuela blames the US for murder
In Venezuela on Thursday, Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello accused the US government of murder, described the version of the events as a “tremendous lie ve and questioned how people on the targeted ship were connected to the gang.
“And how did they define them as members of Aragua? Didn’t they know? Did they have a chips? Cabello said.
Cabello said that Venezuela officials were investigating the strike, but did not give any details.
Cabello also rejected the US government’s claim that the targeted ship was carrying 11 people and drugs, and last week, the video released by the White House showed a kind of small fishing boat known as “Peñero ında in Venezuela.
Cabello said, “If you put 11 people in this Peñero, there is no room for anything else because when this Peñeros goes to the sea, fishermen should carry gas for return.
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Garcia Cano, Venezuela, reportedly reported from Karakas.
