US military carried out 21st strike on alleged drug boat, killing 3

CNN The Pentagon on Saturday conducted the st known strike on an alleged drug-trafficking boat US Southern Command informed Sunday Intelligence verified that the vessel was involved in illicit narcotics smuggling transiting along a known narco-trafficking track and carrying narcotics Southern Command posted on social media Three male narco-terrorists aboard the vessel were killed The vessel was trafficking narcotics in the Eastern Pacific and was struck in international waters per the announcement The latest attack brings the total number of people killed by the US military s strikes on the alleged drug boats to CNN has communicated that the military is using a variety of fighter jets drones and gunships to carry out the strikes in the campaign bureaucrats say is meant to disrupt the flow of drugs into the US The attack comes days after a Defense Department official declared the US conducted its th strike on an alleged drug trafficking boat last week The Justice Department has explained Congress the administration does not need its approval to carry out the strikes which selected experts have explained could violate US and international law The ongoing campaign has also begun to surface tensions with allies the United Kingdom has stopped sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug-trafficking vessels to avoid being complicit in the strikes CNN communicated last week which the UK believes are illegal The president of Colombia also noted last week that he had ordered his country to suspend intelligence sharing with the US until the attacks stop