Hegseth says four killed in US strike on alleged drug boat off Venezuelan coast | US military
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday that the US had killed four people against a ship allegedly carrying illegal drugs on the Venezuelan coast.
The strike arrived a day after Trump officials informed the Congress that the US had entered a “non -international armed conflict ıyla with the US drug cartels.
In recent weeks, at least the fourth extraordinary and controversial attack by the US forces outside the American waters has been an extraordinary and controversial attack. Hegseth said Trump manages the last strike to Trump’s orders in a social media mission.
Hegseth wrote that the boat was shot in international waters on the coast of Venezuela and that an intelligence assessment carries drugs affiliated to the United States.
“The strike was carried out in international waters on the shores of Venezuela, the ship was carrying a significant amount of narcotics on the shores of Venezuela – going to America to poison our people,” he said.
“Our intelligence, of course, confirmed that this ship is doing narcotic trade, the people on the ship are narco-terrorists and a known narco-commerce transit on the way to transit,” he said.
The last attack on a boat comes to the Trump administration, the Congress, with a notification that tries to legally justify the use of military power against Venezuela drug boats.
The notification was provided by senior Pentagon officials as part of the attempt to explain the legal arguments of the Trump administration for strikes. It also included a hidden briefing to the members of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Wednesday.
The note also says that Trump’s cartels see drug -smuggling actions as “non -state armed groups oluşturan creating an armed attack against the United States. The administration must notify the Congress by the law to use the US government to use armed forces.
Hegseth’s social media article claimed that the boat was “connected to determined terrorist organizations ,, which was a term introduced by the guardian for the first time to the Congress.
Until this week, the management train referred to Aragua and other cartels as foreign terrorist organizations or FTO. Legal experts claimed that characterizing drug cartels as a FTO did not give any additional authority to the administration to use deadly force.
In general, the White House officials claimed that Trump used the forces of Article II, and tried to justify the strikes that allow the President to use military power in defense in limited participation.
The argument of self -defense, Trump’s train, the train of Aragua as a foreign terrorist organization, by Trump’s Deputy General Manager Stephen Miller, earlier this year, in accordance with the law of Foreign Enemies to defend the deportation of Duzine Venezuelali.
The train claimed that Aragua infiltrated the Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro regime – and therefore the presence of cartel members in the United States meant a “predatory attack by a foreign nation, allowing any Venezuelan national to be deported.
However, the management has not yet provided concrete evidence that Aragua has become a means of the Venezuela government, and in contact for this story, legal experts said that the White House could only justify that it could do this show.
On the three boats in the Caribbean, the previous strike trinket killed 17 people and triggered widespread international anger. Hegseth added to his social media mission: “These strikes will continue until the attacks on the American people end !!!!”
Venezuela drug boats allegedly allegedly claimed, the White House Internal Security Council (HSC) was audited by Miller and Tony Salisbury, the best lieutenant.
Earlier this year, Miller strengthened the HSC as his own presence in Donald Trump’s second period, which was considered a part of the National Security Council and ultimately made a remarkable departure from the previous administrations, which he gave to the National Security Advisor.
For example, this was the case with the second Venezuela boat shot with Hellfire missiles on September 15th. While the White House was informed, the Pentagon described the boat as a applicable target more than four days ago, and many upper White House officials learned the upcoming strikes before they took place.
