US Obliterates Another Alleged Narco Skiff In First Pacific Ocean Strike

The U.S. military carried out another strike against an alleged drug vessel, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced Wednesday.

The military strike, which occurred on Tuesday, targeted a boat allegedly carrying narcotics along a route in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the death of two suspected terrorists, Hegseth confirmed in a social media post. The attack was the latest of its kind by the Trump administration, which has increasingly targeted suspected drug vessels operating in international waters.

“Yesterday, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel being operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization and conducting narco-trafficking in the Eastern Pacific,” the Secretary of War stated.

“The vessel was known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, was transiting along a known narco-trafficking transit route, and carrying narcotics” he continued. “Both terrorists were killed and no U.S. forces were harmed in this strike.”

The strike on Tuesday is the eighth known time the Trump administration has targeted suspected drug vessels in international waters, with the previous seven taking place in the Caribbean Ocean.

The War Department conducted a strike against a vessel affiliated with Ejército de Liberación Nacional, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, on Oct. 17 which killed three passengers on board, Hegseth announced earlier this week. He described the cartel organization as “the Al Qaeda of the Western Hemisphere” and stated that the boat was allegedly carrying “substantial amounts” of narcotics at the time of the attack.

A suspected cartel boat was successfully obliterated