US army attacks suspected drug-trafficking vessel in eastern Pacific
(MENAFN) Reports say U.S. forces carried out a strike on a vessel in international waters of the eastern Pacific on Wednesday, killing the three people on board. The action was described by a U.S. defense official on social media as targeting a boat tied to a designated terrorist organization and engaged in drug trafficking along a known transit route.
The official wrote on social media: "Today ... the Department of War carried out yet another lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO). Yet again, the now-deceased terrorists were engaged in narco-trafficking in the Eastern Pacific."
The same statement accused the crew of transporting narcotics and vowed continued operations against such targets. "These strikes will continue, day after day. These are not simply drug runners -- these are narco-terrorists bringing death and destruction to our cities ... We will find them and kill them, until the threat to the American people is extinguished," the message said.
Colombian authorities publicly condemned the strike. A Colombian official wrote on social media: "The attack on another boat in the Pacific, we don't know if it's Ecuadorean or Colombian, left some dead," adding, "It is still murder. Whether in the Caribbean or Pacific, the U.S. government strategy violates the norms of international law."
Local and international outlets report that the incident has provoked diplomatic pushback even as U.S. officials frame the operation as part of an ongoing campaign against narco-terrorism on high-risk maritime routes.
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