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bdamomma

(69,532 posts)
Tue Oct 28, 2025, 10:28 AM Oct 2025

BBC ARTICLE: US Kills 14 in strikes on four alleged drug boats in Pacific

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0ex94eeljeo

Snip of article:

US forces have killed 14 people in strikes on four alleged drug boats in the Pacific, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth says.

He said one survivor was rescued by Mexican search and rescue personnel.

It is the latest in a series of attacks on boats the US says have been carrying drugs in both the Pacific and Caribbean.

The latest strikes in the eastern Pacific, which Hegseth said happened on Monday at the direction of President Donald Trump, mark an escalation in what it says is a campaign to target drug traffickers.




Is there any evidence of this unwarranted killing of people?
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Ping Tung

(4,370 posts)
2. They mistook them for 4 Venezualan landing craft on their way to invade Malibu
Tue Oct 28, 2025, 10:40 AM
Oct 2025

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walkingman

(10,860 posts)
3. Who gets to decide who lives and who dies in this administration? Thou shalt not kill.....?
Tue Oct 28, 2025, 11:00 AM
Oct 2025

Blues Heron

(8,834 posts)
4. They are escalating the pace exponentially. Soon they will be bombing countries with hundreds dead per episode
Tue Oct 28, 2025, 11:21 AM
Oct 2025
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