{"id":43045,"date":"2025-12-05T08:33:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T13:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=43045"},"modified":"2025-12-05T08:33:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T13:33:43","slug":"u-s-military-strikes-another-alleged-narcoboat-killing-4-as-probe-into-the-first-attack-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=43045","title":{"rendered":"

U.S. military strikes another alleged narcoboat, killing 4, as probe into the first attack begins<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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U.S. navy Admiral Frank “Mitch” Bradley, center, and Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, right, are escorted to a classified briefing in Washington on Thursday, as lawmakers investigate how Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth handled a Sept. 2 military strike on an alleged drug smuggling boat.\u00a0(J. Scott Applewhite\/The Associated Press)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The U.S. military said it had conducted another strike against a small boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Thursday, following a pause of almost three weeks.<\/p>\n

It is the 22nd such strike against boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific that the Trump administration claimed were trafficking drugs.<\/p>\n

There were four casualties, according to the social media post, bringing the death toll of the campaign to at least 87 people.<\/p>\n

In a video that accompanied the announcement, a small boat can be seen moving across the water before it is suddenly consumed by a large explosion. The video then zooms out to show the boat covered in flames and billowing smoke.<\/p>\n

The strike was conducted the same day Admiral Frank “Mitch” Bradley appeared for a series of closed-door briefings at the U.S. Capitol as lawmakers began an investigation into the very first strike, carried out by the military on Sept. 2. The sessions came after a report that Bradley ordered an immediate follow-up attack that killed the survivors to comply with Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth’s demands.<\/p>\n

Bradley told lawmakers there was no “kill them all” order from Hegseth, but a stark video of the entire series of attacks left some lawmakers with serious questions.<\/p>\n

Legal experts have said killing survivors of a strike at sea could be a violation of the laws of military warfare.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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