The United States military conducted its eighth strike against an alleged drug-snuggling vessel, this time in the Pacific Ocean, killing two people, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Wednesday, October 22. Pete Hegseth also equated these suspected drug-carrying vessels to Al-Qaeda – a militant organisation – and warned that for anyone trying to snuggle drugs into America, “there will be no refuge or forgiveness.”

The Tuesday night strike occurred in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The seven previous strikes all targeted vessels in the Caribbean. According to Hegseth in a social media post, the strike killed two people, bringing the death toll from all the strikes to at least 34 people.

Pete Hegseth said, “Yesterday, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War conducte

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