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President Trump posted a video Tuesday afternoon showing the US military bombing another alleged Venezuelan drug boat, killing its six occupants.
“Under my Standing Authorities as Commander-in-Chief, this morning, the Secretary of War, ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility — just off the Coast of Venezuela,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics, was associated with illicit narcoterrorist networks, and was transiting along a known DTO route. The strike was conducted in International Waters, and six male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike. No U.S. Forces were harmed.”
It is the sixth known boat bombing since Sept. 2 as the Trump administration seeks to increase pressure on the authoritarian socialist government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, whom the US government accuses of facilitating cocaine smuggling.
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