US releasing survivors of Caribbean drug boat strike
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President Trump posted a new video on his “Truth Social” platform on Saturday showing a U.S. military strike on what he calls a “drug-carrying submarine.” It comes after the Pentagon revealed that two people survived that strike earlier in the week,
Two men rescued by the U.S. military after it attacked a boat in the Caribbean Sea were being sent to their home countries of Colombia and Ecuador, President Trump said.
Donald Trump posted to Truth Social on Saturday about the fate of two survivors of a "drug carrying submarine" that was sunk by U.S. airstrikes this week.
The US military is holding two survivors on a Navy ship after the US carried out a Thursday strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean, according to three US officials.
The two survivors of Thursday's strike are in the process of being returned to Ecuador and Colombia, the president said Saturday.
At least two survivors from a deadly U.S. military strike in the Caribbean Sea are now in custody aboard an American vessel after being rescued by helicopter, according to a person familiar with details of the incident. The person said the survivors were aboard a semi-submersible vessel when they were hit in the attack.
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U.S. will send survivors of strike on suspected drug vessel back to Ecuador and Colombia, Trump says
The military rescued the pair after striking a submersible vessel in what was at least the sixth attack since early September.
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The two survivors from the latest attack will be sent to Colombia and Ecuador, avoiding a potentially thorny legal process in U.S. courts.
Trump’s assertion that the United States is engaged in an “armed conflict” with drug cartels is based on the same legal authority used by the Bush administration when it declared a war on terror after the Sept. 11 attacks. That includes the ability to capture and detain combatants and to use lethal force to take out their leadership.