Posted on 11/16/2025 3:59:48 PM PST by Libloather
U.S. forces carried out a lethal strike Saturday on a narcotics vessel operated by a designated terrorist organization in the Eastern Pacific, killing three suspected narco-terrorists in international waters, according to U.S. Southern Command.
The strike brings the total number of suspected narco-terrorists killed to 82, with three survivors, in an ongoing U.S. campaign targeting drug-smuggling vessels tied to designated terrorist groups.
In a post on X, U.S. Southern Command said intelligence confirmed the vessel hit in Thursday’s strike was smuggling narcotics along a known trafficking route. The command described the strike as a "lethal kinetic operation" conducted in international waters as part of a broader effort to disrupt transnational criminal networks.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Thursday announced the official launch of Operation Southern Spear, a new mission targeting narco-terror networks across Latin America.
Hegseth said on X that U.S. Southern Command and Joint Task Force Southern Spear will lead the mission to defend the homeland and dismantle narco-terrorist networks across the Western Hemisphere.
"This mission defends our Homeland, removes narco-terrorists from our Hemisphere, and secures our Homeland from the drugs that are killing our people," Hegseth said.
The U.S. carried out its 20th strike on suspected drug-trafficking boats last week, killing four alleged narco-terrorists, according to a Pentagon official.
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Getting Series——
Southern Spear has a nice Ring to it.
(The U.S. carried out its 20th strike on suspected drug-trafficking boats last week, killing four alleged narco-terrorists, according to a Pentagon official.)
Well, GOOD.
STOP 🛑🛑🛑 running Illegal narcotics.
Twenty boats, that is about 30 tones of poison stopped.
Are these guys stupid or is it a numbers game? How many boats don’t get blown up? Would suck to be the decoys.
I wonder what response they are expecting and what happens after that?
How many millions of dollars worth of "inventory" have the cartels lost since this operation began?
Excellent! Keep up the good fight.
They aren’t saying *where* in the “eastern Pacific”.
Democrats and MSM: “Sob! Those poverty stricken farmers, fishermen and shop keepers are just trying to earn an honest living...they deserve due process.”
Aw…too bad. /s
And how many dollars and interminable hours of legal garbage have been saved?
A great deal, I think.
And a great deal for us.
But their names! What were their names?!?
The ocean is a drug dump.
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