Pentagon announces it has killed four men in another boat strike in Pacific | US military

The U.S. military launched a new deadly attack on a boat suspected of carrying illegal drugs in the eastern Pacific, killing four people, the Pentagon said Thursday, as questions mount about the legality of the attacks.

The video of the new strike was as follows: published on social media A statement was made by the Florida-based US southern command, on the instructions of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, saying, “Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic attack on a ship operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization in international waters.”

“Intelligence confirmed that the ship was carrying illegal narcotics and was passing through a known drug smuggling route in the Eastern Pacific. Four male narco-terrorists on board were killed,” the statement said.

The latest attack comes as the Pentagon and the White House are struggling to answer questions about the legal basis for a campaign to kill suspected drug traffickers with military strikes; US lawmakers have vowed to investigate the first such attack in September, when two men who survived clinging to debris were killed in a follow-up attack.

Hegseth has faced increasing scrutiny over the Sept. 2 attack following a report in the Washington Post that the defense secretary had ordered the military to “kill them all.” The US admiral who led the attack told lawmakers on Thursday that there was no such order. Still, Democrat Jim Himes described the footage of the September strike as “one of the most disturbing things I’ve seen in my time in public service.”

The administration has argued that the United States is at war with drug traffickers and that such attacks are legal under the rules of war, but most legal experts reject that logic.

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