US military kills 6 in strike on alleged drug boat in the Pacific | AP News

The U.S. military said it killed six men Sunday in a strike on an alleged drug-smuggling vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean as part of the Trump administration’s campaign against alleged traffickers...

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US military kills 6 in strike on alleged drug boat in the Pacific

The U.S. military says it has killed six men in a strike on an alleged drug-smuggling vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean as part of the Trump administration’s campaign against alleged traffickers. Sunday’s attack brought the death toll to at least 157 people since the Trump administration began targeting those it calls “narcoterrorists” in small vessels in early September. As with most of the military’s statements on the more than 40 known strikes, U.S. Southern Command said it targeted alleged drug traffickers along known smuggling routes. The military did not provide evidence that the vessel was ferrying drugs. It posted a video on X that showed a small boat floating on the water and then being blown up.

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#TheGuardian - Feb 18, 2026

US says 11 ppl killed in latest strikes on alleged #drug boats

The military action Monday brought the number of fatalities caused by US strikes to 145 since September, when Donald #Trump called on American #ArmedForces to attack people deemed “#NarcoTerrorists” on small vessels. There have been 42 known strikes in notorious #DrugTrafficking routes such as the #CaribbeanSea and eastern #PacificOcean, according 2 the #AssociatedPress reported

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US says 11 people killed in latest strikes on alleged drug boats

Three boats targeted in eastern Pacific and Caribbean as Trump continues pursuit of alleged ‘narco-terrorists’

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2 killed in new Eastern Pacific boat strike, SOUTHCOM says - ABC News

U.S. Southern Command announced on Monday that its forces conducted a new airstrike against an alleged drug smuggling boat in the Eastern Pacific, killing two people aboard and leaving one survivor...

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2 killed in new Eastern Pacific boat strike, SOUTHCOM says

The strike was the 38th since operations began in September.

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US forces maintain presence post-Maduro

Now over a month since ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was extracted from his Caracas compound by United States forces in a pre-dawn military operation that transported him to New

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#Trump Calls His Enemies Terrorists. Does That Mean He Can Just Kill Them?

From boat strikes to killings in the streets of Minnesota to NSPM-7, the White House leans on the word “terror” to justify its violence.

Nick Turse, February 2 2026

" '#Terrorist' is the word that the Trump administration employs to describe the victims of its most egregious acts of #StateViolence.

"President Donald Trump has used the word 'terrorist' to justify the #ExtrajudicialKillings of civilians in the #CaribbeanSea and #PacificOcean. And his deputies used it to explain away the killings of #AlexPretti and #ReneeGood in Minneapolis by federal agents.

" 'Earlier this morning, on my Orders, U.S. Military Forces conducted a kinetic strike against positively identified Tren de Aragua #NarcoTerrorists,' Trump wrote following the initial boat strike on September 2, 2025. He said the attack 'occurred while the terrorists were at sea in International waters.'

"Secretary of Homeland Security #KristiNoem said that Good and Pretti were guilty of '#DomesticTerrorism.' And top White House adviser #StephenMiller used similar language to describe both.

"These killings were conducted thousands of miles apart by different agencies in very different contexts. But the connection between them could be more than semantic."

Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2026/02/02/trump-nspm-7-domestic-terrorist-minneapolis-alex-pretti/

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Trump Calls His Enemies Terrorists. Does That Mean He Can Just Kill Them?

From boat strikes to killings in the streets of Minnesota to NSPM-7, the White House leans on the word “terror” to justify its violence.

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US military strikes first alleged drug boat since Maduro raid

The U.S. military says it’s carried out a deadly strike on a vessel accused of trafficking drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, the first since the raid that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro earlier this month. U.S. Southern Command said Friday on social media that the boat was “engaged in narco-trafficking operations” and that the strike killed two people and left one survivor. It said it notified the Coast Guard to launch search and rescue operations. The U.S. military has focused lately on seizing sanctioned oil tankers with connections to Venezuela since the Trump administration launched an audacious raid to capture Maduro. The last boat strikes occurred in late December.

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#BigPharma are #NarcoTerrorists! When are we going to see more arrests of them?!! #SacklerFamily and #ElizabethHolmes are just the tip of the iceberg!
Pentagon strike kills 2 in 30th known attack on suspected drug boat | Stars and Stripes
U.S. military forces struck a suspected drug smuggling vessel in the Eastern Pacific on Monday in the 30th known drone strike on alleged narcotics boats in waters off South America since September.
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Pentagon strike kills 2 in 30th known attack on suspected drug boat

Two alleged “narcoterrorists” linked to an unnamed “designated terrorist organization” were killed in the attack, bringing the total killed to at least 107.

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Trump administration strikes another alleged drug boat

The U.S. military says it has conducted another strike against a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing two people. The strike, which was announced Monday by U.S. Southern Command on social media, brings the total number of known boat strikes to 30 and the number of people killed at least 107 since early September. Along with the strikes, the Trump administration has built up military forces in the region as part of an escalating pressure campaign against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. When asked Monday about “an explosion in Venezuela,” President Donald Trump said the U.S. “hit” a dock facility along a shore where boats accused of carrying drugs “load up.”

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