How Many People Has the U.S. Killed in Boat Strikes?

Since September the Trump administration has conducted an undeclared war in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean killing scores of civilians The Intercept is chronicling all publicly declared U S attacks and providing a tracker with information on each strike The administration insists the attacks are permitted because the U S is engaged in non-international armed conflict with designated terrorist organizations or DTOs President Donald Trump has justified the attacks in a War Powers summary to Congress under his Article II constitutional authority as commander in chief of the U S military and claimed to be acting pursuant to the United States inherent right of self-defense as a matter of international law The Justice Department s Office of Legal Counsel has also produced a classified opinion that provides legal cover for the lethal strikes Experts in the laws of war and members of Congress from both parties say the strikes are illegal extrajudicial killings because the military is not permitted to deliberately target civilians even suspected criminals who do not pose an imminent threat of violence The summary executions are a critical departure from standard practice in the long-running U S war on drugs in which law enforcement agencies arrested suspected drug middlemen The Pentagon has repeatedly withheld information on the attacks from members of Congress and the American citizens despite mounting questions from lawmakers about the legality of these deadly strikes So The Intercept is publishing a strike tracker documenting America s newest war The locations and casualty figures are drawn from information provided by U S Southern Command which oversees military operations in Latin America and the Caribbean the Office of the Secretary of War and social media posts by Trump and War Secretary Pete Hegseth Number of StrikesTotal KilledTotal Captured November Death toll Theater Pacific Ocean Target Unspecified Designated Terrorist Organization November Death toll Theater Caribbean Target Narcoterrorists November Death toll killed in two strikes aboard each ship Theater Both in Pacific Ocean Target Unspecified Designated Terrorist Organizations The day before at the direction of President Trump two lethal kinetic strikes were conducted on two vessels operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations These vessels were known by our intelligence to be associated with illicit narcotics smuggling were carrying narcotics and pic twitter com ocUoGzwwDO Secretary of War Pete Hegseth SecWar November November Death toll Theater Caribbean Target Unspecified Designated Terrorist Organization November Death toll Theater Pacific Ocean Target Unspecified Designated Terrorist Organization November Death toll Theater Caribbean Target Unspecified Designated Terrorist Organization October Death toll Theater Pacific Ocean Target Unspecified Designated Terrorist Organization Earlier at present at the direction of President Trump the Department of War carried out a lethal kinetic strike on yet another narco-trafficking vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization DTO in the Eastern Pacific This vessel like all the others was known by our pic twitter com mBOLA RYQe Secretary of War Pete Hegseth SecWar October October Death toll killed in three separate strikes with one disclosed survivor eight aboard one boat four on another and three on the last The Mexican Navy failed to find the survivor who is presumed to be dead bringing the total to Theater Pacific Ocean Target Unspecified Designated Terrorist Organization The preceding day at the direction of President Trump the Department of War carried out three lethal kinetic strikes on four vessels operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations DTO trafficking narcotics in the Eastern Pacific The four vessels were known by our intelligence pic twitter com UhoFlZ jPG Secretary of War Pete Hegseth SecWar October October or Death toll Theater Pacific Ocean Target Tren de Aragua Venezuela October Death toll Theater Pacific Ocean Target Unspecified Designated Terrorist Organization Nowadays at the direction of President Trump the Department of War carried out yet another lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization DTO Yet again the now-deceased terrorists were engaged in narco-trafficking in the Eastern Pacific The pic twitter com PEaKmakivD Secretary of War Pete Hegseth SecWar October October Death toll Theater Pacific Ocean Target Unspecified Designated Terrorist Organization October Death toll Theater Caribbean Target Ej rcito de Liberaci n Nacional Colombia On October th at the direction of President Trump the Department of War conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with Ej rcito de Liberaci n Nacional ELN a Designated Terrorist Organization that was operating in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility The pic twitter com v oR LC Secretary of War Pete Hegseth SecWar October October Death toll killed captured and later repatriated to Colombia and Ecuador Theater Caribbean Target Narcoterrorists October Death toll Theater Caribbean Target Unspecified Designated Terrorist Organization October Death toll Theater Caribbean Target Unspecified Designated Terrorist Organization Earlier this morning on President Trump's orders I directed a lethal kinetic strike on a narco-trafficking vessel affiliated with Designated Terrorist Organizations in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility Four male narco-terrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the pic twitter com QpNPljFcGn Secretary of War Pete Hegseth SecWar October September Death toll Theater Caribbean Target Unspecified Designated Terrorist Organization September Death toll Theater Caribbean Target Drug trafficking cartels and narcoterrorists September Death toll Theater Caribbean Target Tren de Aragua Venezuela The post How Countless People Has the U S Killed in Boat Strikes appeared first on The Intercept