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President Donald Trump introduced on Reality Social Friday that he ordered a deadly strike on a vessel allegedly linked to a chosen terrorist group “conducting narco-trafficking” within the U.S. Southern Command’s space of duty.
The strike, carried out on a vessel confirmed by intelligence to be trafficking illicit narcotics, left three narco-terrorists lifeless, Trump stated within the put up, together with a video displaying the second the boat was struck and have become engulfed in flames.
“On my Orders, the Secretary of Warfare ordered a deadly kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization conducting narcotrafficking within the USSOUTHCOM space of duty,” Trump posted to his Reality Social account Friday night.
“Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking illicit narcotics, and was transiting alongside a identified narcotrafficking passage enroute to poison Individuals.”
US MILITARY CARRIES OUT SECOND STRIKE ON VENEZUELAN NARCOTERRORISTS IN INTERNATIONAL WATERS
President Donald Trump introduced on Reality Social Friday that he ordered a deadly strike on a vessel linked to a chosen terrorist group “conducting narco-trafficking” within the U.S. Southern Command’s space of duty. (@realDonaldTrump through Reality Social)
The strike passed off in international waters, and no U.S. forces had been harmed, he added.
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“The strike killed 3 male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel, which was in worldwide waters,” Trump stated. “No U.S. Forces had been harmed on this strike. STOP SELLING FENTANYL, NARCOTICS, AND ILLEGAL DRUGS IN AMERICA, AND COMMITTING VIOLENCE AND TERRORISM AGAINST AMERICANS!!!”
President Donald Trump speaks at a listening to of the Non secular Liberty Fee on the Museum of the Bible Sept. 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP Picture/Alex Brandon)
The announcement got here simply days after Trump introduced the U.S. military had carried out its second strike on Venezuelan cartels because the administration continues its crackdown.
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“This morning, on my Orders, U.S. Navy Forces carried out a SECOND Kinetic Strike towards positively recognized, terribly violent drug trafficking cartels and narcoterrorists within the SOUTHCOM space of duty,” Trump posted to Reality Social on Monday.
Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s president, throughout a press convention at Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, July 31, 2024. (Gaby Oraa/Bloomberg through Getty Photographs)
Earlier this month, a U.S. army strike blew aside a Venezuelan drug boat within the southern Caribbean, leaving practically a dozen suspected Tren de Aragua narco-terrorists lifeless.
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In February, the Trump administration additionally designated drug cartel teams like Tren de Aragua, the Sinaloa Cartel and others as international terrorist organizations.
