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US Expands Anti-Drug Strikes to Pacific, Killing Two in Latest Attack

The US military carried out its eighth strike on an alleged drug-trafficking vessel Tuesday night in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing two people, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday.

The operation marks an expansion of the Trump administration’s campaign against South American drug cartels, which had previously focused on the Caribbean.

Hegseth compared the effort to the post-9/11 war on terror, saying cartels “are waging war on our border and our people.”

Yesterday, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel being operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization and conducting narco-trafficking

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