Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that his department has carried out a second deadly strike in the Pacific Ocean, killing three people he described as “terrorists.”

In a post made to X less than eight hours after his previous post announcing the Trump administration’s first strike on a vessel in the Pacific, Hegseth wrote, “Today, 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.”

Hegseth claimed that the vessel was “known by our intelligence” to be involved in smuggling narcotics, and that three “male narco-terrorists” who were aboard at the time were killed in th

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