Military Strikes Suspected Drug Boat in Eastern Pacific
Hegseth said the vessel was “operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization and conducting narco-trafficking in the Eastern Pacific.”
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the military struck a suspected drug-smuggling boat in the Eastern Pacific.
It is the eighth strike, but the first one outside of the Caribbean.
Hegseth wrote on X:
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 in the Eastern Pacific.
The vessel was known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, was transiting along a known narco-trafficking transit route, and carrying narcotics. There were two narco-terrorists aboard the vessel during the strike, which was conducted in international waters. Both terrorists were killed and no U.S. forces were harmed in this strike.
Narco-terrorists intending to bring poison to our shores, will find no safe harbor anywhere in our hemisphere. Just as Al Qaeda waged war on our homeland, these cartels are waging war on our border and our people. There will be no refuge or forgiveness—only justice.
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 in the Eastern Pacific.
The vessel was known by our intelligence to be… pic.twitter.com/BayDhUZ4Ac
— Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar) October 22, 2025
Hegseth did not identify the designated terrorist organization in any other post or interview.
However, this strike happened after the military took out a boat associated with Colombia’s National Liberation Army, killing all three men on board.
“The vessel was known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, was traveling along a known narco-trafficking route, and was transporting substantial amounts of narcotics,” Hegseth wrote on X. “There were three male narco-terrorists aboard the vessel during the strike—which was conducted in international waters. All three terrorists were killed and no U.S. forces were harmed in this strike.”
Hegseth described cartels as “the Al Qaeda of the Western Hemisphere,” promising to treat them as “the terrorists they are.”
The sixth strike last week left behind two survivors.
That strike began a war of words between President Donald Trump and Colombian President Gustavo Petro.
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Comments
Are the boat operators invisible?
Not to the fish eating their shredded corpses
You can’t see them in that picture? Okay, but:
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence
But have you read To Kill A Mockingbird?
Rand Paul said that it was illegal to strike because it may have been fishermen! With three big hp engines, no fishing gear onboard, and no protruding structures for zero radar returns yeah Paul, they are fishermen! The secondary explosions and fire was a lot more then fuel!
What are you intimating with regard to the secondary explosion? That the boat was carrying incendiary materials or that cocaine is highly flammable?
“….cocaine is highly flammable?
Ask Richard Pryor about that….
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1980/06/11/Comedian-Richard-Pryor-burned-while-freebasing/1921539724007/
Columbia getting all hot and moist at the thought of Finding Out ™ 😂😂
I’m a little skeptical that “fishermen” as the narco president of Columbia describes them can afford a speedboat with 2 or 3 300HP Mercury’s on them and where are the nets, poles, buoys etc?
Ya know… we could start arresting the customers and taking them out of circulation. 10% of the customers represent 50% of consumption.
It’s not like they are hiding either.
speed boats become cost prohibitive when the client base is cut by 75%.
taking the “customers” out of circulation would solve soooo many other problems too.