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  • Earlier this morning, on President Trump's orders, I directed a lethal, kinetic strike on a narco-trafficking vessel affiliated with Designated Terrorist Organizations in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility.

    10/03/2025 11:21:50 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 45 replies
    X.com ^ | 11:33 AM · Oct 3, 2025 | Secretary of War Pete Hegseth✓ @SecWar
    Four male narco-terrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike, and no U.S. forces were harmed in the operation. The strike was conducted in international waters just off the coast of Venezuela while the vessel was transporting substantial amounts of narcotics - headed to America to poison our people. Our intelligence, without a doubt, confirmed that this vessel was trafficking narcotics, the people onboard were narco-terrorists, and they were operating on a known narco-trafficking transit route. These strikes will continue until the attacks on the American people are over!!!!
  • Trump announces third strike on boat, killing three ‘narcoterrorists’

    09/19/2025 10:15:34 PM PDT · by fluorescence · 19 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | September 19, 2025 | Ross O'Keefe
    President Donald Trump announced a third strike on a drug boat on Friday, which killed three alleged “narcoterrorists.” Trump said he directed Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to conduct the strike. An accompanying video shows a boat cruising through the water before being blown up. “On my Orders, the Secretary of War ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking illicit narcotics, and was transiting along a known narcotrafficking passage enroute to poison Americans. The...
  • Video: US forces conduct another airstrike targeting a reported smuggling vessel in the southern Caribbean

    09/15/2025 1:22:58 PM PDT · by janetjanet998 · 22 replies
    US forces conduct another airstrike targeting a reported smuggling vessel in the southern Caribbean
  • 'Unprecedented' Anti-Fentanyl Operation Nabs 22 Chinese Citizens and Three Americans

    09/04/2025 9:42:04 AM PDT · by DFG · 9 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 09/04/2025 | Rick Moran
    An international law enforcement operation called Operation Box Cutter has shut down a major criminal enterprise that was supplying precursor drugs that were used in the manufacture of fentanyl. FBI Director Kash Patel announced that 22 Chinese nationals, four Chinese pharmaceutical companies, and three Americans had been arrested in what Patel referred to as an "unprecedented" operation. "We're done playing whack-a-mole," Patel said during a press conference in Cincinnati. "We didn't arrest a couple of people. We charged an enterprise-wide system in mainland China to include dozens of individuals and banks and companies that are responsible for making these lethal...
  • Rubio dials it to 11 on Colombia's leftist president after slaying of conservative presidential candidate

    08/15/2025 4:26:04 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 12 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 14 Aug, 2025 | Monica Showalter
    Leftists have long held no qualms about assassination against their rivals, and in Colombia, where narcoterrorism is also a problem and left-narco alliances are common, it has started up again.. But at least we have a secretary of state who is wise to what's going on. This week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio sent a high-level delegation to Bogota after a leading Colombian presidential candidate, conservative Sen. Miguel Uribe, died of his wounds in a June shooting by a criminal known as a 'sicario' or hitman who obviously had a sponsor. Rubio seems to know who that might be, though,...
  • BREAKING - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio: "U.S. military conducted a lethal strike in the southern Carribean against a drug vessel which had departed from Venezuela and was being operated by a designated narco-terrorist organization."

    09/02/2025 12:44:54 PM PDT · by rxsid · 120 replies
    x.com ^ | 09.02.2025 | AZ Intel
    BREAKING: President Donald Trump says U.S. shot out a "drug-carrying boat" coming from Venezuela, says more details coming soon.pic.twitter.com/nBGLjiDaQv— AZ Intel (@AZ_Intel_) September 2, 2025
  • Drone footage of US forces conducting a lethal strike on a reported smuggling vessel a Today

    09/02/2025 3:26:10 PM PDT · by janetjanet998 · 63 replies
    Drone footage of US forces conducting a lethal strike on a reported smuggling vessel in the Southern Caribbean earlier today The U.S. military, ordered by Trump, carried out a strike in international waters destroying a Venezuela drug boat with 11 Tren de Aragua narcoterrorists aboard
  • Housewives, retirees in Venezuela line up to join militia in response to what Maduro calls "outlandish threats" by U.S.

    08/27/2025 5:42:05 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 46 replies
    CBS NEWS ^ | 08/26/25
    Civil servants, housewives and retirees alike lined up in Venezuela's capital Caracas over the weekend as thousands volunteered to join the country's militia in case there is a U.S. invasion. President Nicolas Maduro called on citizens to respond to "outlandish threats" by the U.S. and sign up over the weekend to the Bolivarian Militia, a civilian corps linked to the South American country's armed forces. The show of force is also intended to send a message to Washington, which has issued a $50 million bounty for Maduro -- who is accused by the Trump administration of leading a drug cartel...
  • Coast Guard Seizes Enough Cocaine to Kill Population of 3 Large US States

    07/16/2025 11:04:25 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 50 replies
    Daily Signal ^ | July 16, 2025 | Virginia Allen
    The U.S. Coast Guard has seized more than 240,000 pounds of cocaine since the start of the Trump administration on Jan. 20, enough to kill the combined population of California, Texas, and New York, according to the Department of Homeland Security. President Donald Trump “is keeping his promise to Make America Safe Again. The Coast Guard’s tremendous work has guaranteed that these illicit drugs will never infiltrate America’s communities and take innocent lives,” Abigail Jackson, White House spokeswoman, told The Daily Signal. “The Trump administration will never stop fighting to protect Americans from the scourge of dangerous drugs,” Jackson said....
  • Coast Guard Offloads Record Drug Haul in Port Everglades

    08/25/2025 5:21:00 PM PDT · by artichokegrower · 26 replies
    gCaptain ^ | August 25, 2025 | Mike Schuler
    The U.S. Coast Guard achieved a milestone with the offload of a record 76,140 pounds of illicit narcotics, valued at $473 million, at Port Everglades on Monday. This marks the largest quantity of drugs offloaded in Coast Guard history. Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton’s crew offloaded approximately 61,740 pounds of cocaine and 14,400 pounds of marijuana, preventing an estimated 23 million potential lethal doses from reaching the United States.
  • Biden faces a major foreign policy scandal, but when are congressional Republicans going to notice?

    03/21/2023 7:58:52 AM PDT · by Twotone · 12 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | March 20, 2023 | John Schindler
    Now that Republicans have narrow control of the House of Representatives, the GOP is investigating the Biden administration with gusto. Still, Republicans seem not to have noticed one major foreign policy scandal that's hiding in plain sight. As I recently reported , the rising scandal surrounding retired FBI senior official Charles McGonigal is perhaps the worst in the bureau’s history. Multiple sources have told me that McGonigal, while still serving with the FBI as head of counterintelligence in New York, shook down Balkan business people, most of them Albanian, in an audacious political corruption scheme worth many millions of dollars....
  • Iran, Hezbollah implicated in Ireland’s largest drug bust

    07/09/2025 10:39:07 PM PDT · by Words Matter · 18 replies
    JNS ^ | 07.09.25
    The trial of two Iranians and six others, who tried to smuggle 2.2 tons of cocaine to the island, exposed networks spanning the Middle East and Venezuela. JNS Staff. July 9, 2025 / JNS) An Irish court on July 4 sentenced two Iranian nationals in connection with a transnational drug trafficking operation involving more than 2.2 tons of cocaine, as authorities investigate suspected links to Hezbollah and the Iranian regime, Irish media reported. The men—Soheil Jelveh, 51, a former captain of the cargo vessel MV Matthew, and Saied Hassani, 39, a senior officer with significant maritime experience—received sentences of 17.5...
  • Revolutionary Guards shelter Swedish gang leader linked to Europe attacks

    07/05/2025 1:04:18 AM PDT · by piasa · 4 replies
    Iran International ^ | Apr 24, 2025, 13:50 GMT+1
    The leader of a Swedish criminal network accused of assisting Tehran in attacks on Israeli-linked targets in Europe is currently living in Iran under the protection of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), sources told Iran International. Rawa Majid received funds from Iran’s embassy in Denmark to help coordinate attacks against Israeli diplomatic facilities in Copenhagen and Stockholm, according to a source familiar with the matter inside the IRGC. The source also said the gang leader travels between Iran and Afghanistan for operations overseen by the IRGC. Majid leads a criminal group, Foxtrot, recently sanctioned by the UK and the...
  • One of Sweden's most wanted criminals is arrested 1,600 miles away, police say

    07/04/2025 11:54:00 PM PDT · by piasa · 7 replies
    CBS/AFP ^ | July 4, 2025
    The head of one of Sweden's biggest crime organizations, accused of instigating a surge in violent crime, has been arrested more than 1,600 miles away in Turkey, Swedish police said on Friday. Police did not identify the man by name but Swedish media named him as 35-year-old Ismail Abdo, head of the Rumba crime organization and alleged to have been orchestrating operations from abroad. Abdo is one of Sweden's most wanted criminals and the subject of an international arrest warrant since 2024. The Scandinavian country, once known for its low crime rates, has struggled for years to rein in organized...
  • Sex parties and fast cars: US agent turned cartel mole claims DEA corruption

    11/20/2022 3:12:47 AM PST · by blueplum · 33 replies
    THe Guardian UK ^ | 20 Nov 2022 | J Oliver Conroy
    As he enters prison, a disgraced former DEA agent who lived a decadent double life has claimed his own crimes were the tip of the iceberg... ...In interviews with the Associated Press, Irizarry, who recently began a 12-year prison sentence, has claimed that corruption is endemic in the powerful US drug agency... ...Irizarry claimed to the Associated Press that dozens of other agents joined in with his debauchery, and that they deliberately tailored drug operations so that they could visit party hotspots...
  • Foreign Nationals Charged With Intent To Distribute $5.5 Million In Methamphetamine

    06/11/2025 7:11:36 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 13 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | 06/11/2025 | Kimberly Hayek
    Federal authorities in Southern California filed a complaint charging three foreign nationals with conspiring to distribute nearly four tons of methamphetamine, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a June 5 statement.Suspected methamphetamine allegedly discovered in San Diego County, California, on June 2, 2025. Courtesy of San Diego County Sheriff’s OfficeErick Arriola, 27, from El Salvador, and Mexican nationals Baltazar Rodriguez Reyes, 49, and Eugenio Lizama, 35, were charged with possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. They face a minimum of 10 years in prison.According to federal prosecutors, Arriola is a felon convicted of DUI, battery...
  • 72 bodies discovered in mass grave in Mexico’s drug-plaged north

    08/24/2010 11:00:49 PM PDT · by Free ThinkerNY · 10 replies
    BNO NEWS ^ | Aug. 25, 2010
    MEXICO CITY (BNO NEWS) – The bodies of at least 72 people were found in a mass grave near San Fernando, a town located in Mexico's Tamaulipas state, officials said. The alleged dumping ground for victims of the country's drug war was discovered after a man with a gunshot wound arrived at a military checkpoint asking for medical help, the Mexican Navy said in a statement. Army forces supported by air units went to the area where the man was attacked, sighting suspected drug hitmen who opened fire on the Marines. According to the Navy, in the clashes one soldier...
  • Memo list possible border terror plot (TEXAS)

    07/17/2005 9:27:42 AM PDT · by pwatson · 52 replies · 1,443+ views
    The Dallas Morning News ^ | 7-16-05 | Alfredo Corchado and Jason Trahan
    Memo lists possible border terror plot Officials play down plan described in secret FBI bulletin 11:03 PM CDT on Saturday, July 16, 2005 By ALFREDO CORCHADO and JASON TRAHAN / The Dallas Morning News Dirt roads trace pale lines across a desolate landscape of bald peaks and plunging canyons near Texas' Big Bend and bridge the border at dozens of improvised crossings. For decades, these routes have been used to smuggle drugs and humans. Now there is growing concern they could become deadly conduits for terrorism. The concern is buttressed by a confidential but unclassified FBI intelligence bulletin, obtained by...
  • FBI bulletin outlines possible terrorist plot at Texas border

    07/17/2005 5:25:28 PM PDT · by archy · 93 replies · 3,226+ views
    Dallas Morning News via Kansas City Star ^ | Posted on Sat, Jul. 16, 2005 | ALFREDO CORCHADO AND JASON TRAHAN
    FBI bulletin outlines possible terrorist plot at Texas border BY ALFREDO CORCHADO AND JASON TRAHAN The Dallas Morning News DALLAS - (KRT) - Dirt roads trace pale lines across a desolate landscape of bald peaks and plunging canyons near Texas' Big Bend and bridge the international boundary at dozens of improvised crossings. For decades, these routes have been used to smuggle drugs and humans. Now there is growing concern they could become deadly conduits for terrorism. The concern is buttressed by a confidential but unclassified FBI intelligence bulletin, obtained by The Dallas Morning News, that contains the vague outlines of...
  • Russia lends Venezuela $2.2 bln to buy weapons (Times are hard for Hugo and Venezuela)

    09/13/2009 5:21:47 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 27 replies · 1,136+ views
    Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 9/13/09 | Frank Jack Daniel and Patricia Rondon
    CARACAS (Reuters) – Russia has agreed to lend Venezuela over $2 billion to finance the purchase of weapons including tanks and advanced anti-aircraft missiles, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday. Chavez said the purchases agreed on a trip to Moscow last week included 92 tanks and the S-300 missile system, which is capable of shooting down fighter jets and cruise missiles. "We have to thank the Russian government, which approved a $2.2 billion loan for arms spending," Chavez said on his weekly television show. He did not say how much the new weapons cost. A major oil exporter, Venezuela's...