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The Pentagon says another U.S. strike in the Caribbean has killed three suspected traffickers
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part of what the Trump administration is calling its new war on the cartels
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed the strike Sunday, saying the boat, linked to a Colombian terror group, was destroyed Friday with, quote
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substantial amounts of narcotics on board. All three men on the vessel were killed
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No U.S. forces were hurt. Hegseth posted on X that these cartels are the Al-Qaeda of
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the Western Hemisphere, adding they will be hunted and killed just like al-Qaeda
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This was the seventh strike in recent weeks, part of the administration's push to target
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drug cartels as terrorist groups. But critics, like Republican Senator Rand Paul, says the
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policy amounts to summary executions without due process
