{"id":85935,"date":"2026-11-02T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=85935"},"modified":"2026-11-02T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T12:00:00","slug":"trump-still-brazenly-carrying-out-extrajudicial-murders-in-international-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=85935","title":{"rendered":"<h2>TRUMP STILL BRAZENLY CARRYING OUT EXTRAJUDICIAL MURDERS IN INTERNATIONAL WATER<\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>US Military&#8217;s Drug-Boat Strikes Have Now Killed At Least 240 Peopl<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->Austin Campbell<br \/>\nTask &amp; Purpose<\/p>\n<div class=\"NodeContent_body__DiE4u NodeBody_container__JQPDV\">\n<article><strong>The U.S. military killed five people Tuesday aboard what Southern Command described as a &#8220;go-fast vessel&#8221; associated with &#8220;narco-terrorists&#8221; in the eastern Pacific Ocean<\/strong>, bringing the death toll from its campaign against suspected drug traffickers to at least 240 since September 2025.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/240th-Carribean-strike.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"NodeBody_image__QqkYz\" src=\"https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1920,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/240th-Carribean-strike.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=640,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/240th-Carribean-strike.jpg 640w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=750,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/240th-Carribean-strike.jpg 750w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=828,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/240th-Carribean-strike.jpg 828w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1080,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/240th-Carribean-strike.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1200,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/240th-Carribean-strike.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1920,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/240th-Carribean-strike.jpg 1920w\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-nimg=\"1\" \/><\/a>U.S. Southern Command said Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere carried out the Oct. 27 strike against a speedboat traveling along known drug-trafficking routes.<\/p>\n<p>The command said intelligence confirmed the vessel&#8217;s involvement in narcotics trafficking but <strong>did not publicly provide evidence supporting that assessment<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/11\/26\/us\/trump-boat-strike-videos.html\">with the majority of these killings occurring at sea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Southcom\/status\/2115116783199735980?a=LD-IQJqQVUHxqp4_RAs&amp;s=20\">Video released by U.S. Southern Command on X<\/a> appears to show the vessel sitting nearly motionless in the water before a large explosion engulfs it. <strong>The footage does not establish whether the vessel was anchored or disabled.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"X Post\" 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frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"2115116783199735980\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The attack was at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southcom.mil\/News\/PressReleases\/Article\/4618776\/lethal-kinetic-strike-october-4-2026\/\">least the third deadly strike carried out by SOUTHCOM this month<\/a>. On Oct. 4, U.S. forces killed four people aboard another suspected drug-trafficking vessel.<\/p>\n<p>Over the previous months, these strikes have gained mounting legal scrutiny, domestically and internationally. <a href=\"https:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/news\/us-troops-drug-boat-strikes-legal-orders\/\"><strong>In September, the United Nations found reasonable grounds to believe the killings constituted murder<\/strong><\/a><strong> under international law<\/strong> and warned that the broader campaign could amount to crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n<p>The organization rejected the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/10\/02\/politics\/trump-admin-us-armed-conflict-cartels\">Trump administration&#8217;s argument that the United States is engaged in an armed conflict<\/a> with designated terrorist organizations, finding that suspected drug trafficking does not constitute an armed attack justifying military force in self-defense.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The families of two men killed in an October 2025 strike have also <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/cases\/burnley-v-united-states\"><strong>sued the U.S. government, alleging wrongful death and extrajudicial killing<\/strong><\/a>. The lawsuit, filed with assistance from the American Civil Liberties Union and Center for Constitutional Rights, concerns Chad Joseph, 26, and Rishi Samaroo, 41, both from Trinidad and Tobago.<\/p>\n<p>Their families say the men had been fishing and working in Venezuela and were returning home when the military struck their boat. The lawsuit seeks damages and a finding that their deaths were unlawful.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has maintained that the strikes are lawful. SOUTHCOM <a href=\"https:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/news\/us-troops-drug-boat-strikes-legal-orders\/\">previously told Task &amp; Purpose<\/a> that all military operations had complied with the law of armed conflict and that <strong>every person killed was a confirmed member of a designated terrorist organization<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<p>____<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/news\/military-drug-boat-240-killed\/\">https:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/news\/military-drug-boat-240-killed\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Military&#8217;s Drug-Boat Strikes Have Now Killed At Least 240 Peopl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85936,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85935\/revisions\/85936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}