Top lawmaker says US forces killed 'shipwrecked sailors'; Hegseth says US has 'only just begun'

Top lawmaker says US forces killed 'shipwrecked sailors'; Hegseth says US has 'only just begun'

A top Democratic lawmaker said Thursday that video footage played during a classified hearing showed a US strike killing "shipwrecked sailors" who survived an initial attack on an alleged drug-trafficking boat.

The September 2 incident -- the first in a series of strikes targeting purported narcotics-smuggling vessels that have left more than 80 people dead -- has sparked widespread criticism of both the military campaign and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

The footage showed "the United States military attacking shipwrecked sailors -- bad guys, bad guys -- but attacking shipwrecked sailors," Representative Jim Himes, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, told journalists.

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