President Donald Trump said Friday he ordered another strike against a boat in international waters in the Caribbean that he said was “trafficking illicit narcotics.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOn my orders, the Secretary of War ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization conducting narcotrafficking in the US SOUTHCOM area of responsibility,” Trump said in a post on his social media platform. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was the third such strike targeting alleged drug traffickers — and the second one this week<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n U.S. Southern Command’s area of responsibility includes South America and the Caribbean Sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trump’s post did not say when the latest strike was carried out.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Trump, the strike killed three men, who he called “narcoterrorists.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth posted a video on social media showing a speeding craft moving quickly through the water before being struck by an apparent missile and then engulfed in a large burst of flame. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Pentagon referred questions to the White House, which did not immediately respond.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Trump said intelligence indicated the vessel was trafficking drugs and was “transiting along a known narcotrafficking passage enroute to poison Americans.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n