"Just over a week after the families of two Trinidadian men sued the Trump administration over the boat bombings that killed their relatives, the US Department of Defense killed two more people in the eastern Pacific Ocean, bringing the total death toll to at least 128 in the White House's operation that it claims is targeting drug traffickers."
"The US Southern Command said in a social media post that at the direction of Cmdr. Gen. Francis L. Donovan, "Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by designated terrorist organizations." As with the other dozens of strikes the Pentagon has carried out in the Pacific and the Caribbean Sea since September, Southern Command did not provide evidence for its claim that "narco-terrorists" were killed in the attack or that the vessel was traveling "along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations.""
"On Feb. 5, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM Commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking... pic.twitter.com/B3ctyN1lke- U.S. Southern Command (@Southcom) February 6, 2026"
Families of two Trinidadian men sued the Trump administration over earlier boat bombings that killed their relatives. The Department of Defense conducted another strike in the eastern Pacific, bringing the operation's reported death toll to at least 128. U.S. Southern Command said that, at the direction of Cmdr. Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear carried out a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by designated terrorist organizations. Southern Command did not provide evidence that "narco-terrorists" were killed or that the vessel was on known narco-trafficking routes. The White House asserts the strikes aim to stop Venezuelan-based drug cartels from sending drugs to the U.S., but international and domestic intelligence agencies have not independently corroborated those claims.
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