Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed that the United States military struck a boat alleged to be carrying drugs in the Caribbean Sea for the third time in a one-week span

Hegseth claimed that the ship belonged to the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, which President Donald Trump 's administration had recently designated as a terrorist organization, in a post shared on his X account Friday (October 24) morning.

"Overnight, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War carried out a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Tren de Aragua (TdA), a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO), trafficking narcotics in the Caribbean Sea," Hegseth wrote, along with an "unclassifed" video. "The vessel was known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics sm

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