The U.S. has seized survivors after a strike Thursday on a suspected drug-carrying vessel in the Caribbean, the first since President Donald Trump began launching deadly attacks in the region this summer, a defense official and another person familiar with the matter said Friday.
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SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 62 pts · 301d
US has taken hostages after an illegal strike in international waters.
Eldritch@piefed.world · 15 pts · 301d
Sad but true
klammeraffe@lemmy.cafe · 26 pts · 301d
Let me guess, no drugs, just some sandwiches and fishing gear?
aarch0x40@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 301d
Eldritch@piefed.world · 13 pts · 301d
Nah. It'll be what survivors? Down the memory hole it goes with tomorrow's scandal.
dhork@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 301d
But this is exactly why "a defense official and another person familiar with the matter" leaked this to the press. By doing that, it makes it harder for the Administration to just deport them out of sight.
They will still try and do it, of course, but the media will continue to ask questions about it, whether or not they have been kicked out of the Pentagon....
Eldritch@piefed.world · 7 pts · 301d
The owners of the media aren't going to let them. They already should have been blasting it wall to wall as war crimes. A few small outlets that most people never see will constantly cover it, of course. But in a week you will see nothing of it on any of the major outlets that people see daily.
Maeve@kbin.earth · 2 pts · 301d
Further, they're saying "suspected” as if it's factual. "Alleged/ly" is gone.
Witchfire@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 301d
It'll be the rabbit hunter scene from Pans Labyrinth (link)
Witchfire@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 301d
Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 301d
We no longer have a Dept of Defense. So I'm pretty sure that makes this guy a War Official.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 301d
9/11 Two: Cartel Boogaloo
(No this is not a threat or any sort of call to violence - it's just to point out that this is the kind of shit that got us here in the first place)
Mighty_Appititey@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 301d
Can you seize survivors?
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 301d
Sure, it's typically called taking hostages though.
ScrumpyDumpleskin@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 301d
Fishing boats carrying fish that have notable levels of antidepressants due to pharmaceutical contamination does not qualify as a drug vessel.
INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 300d
If even one of them has a Tylenol then it's fair game
frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io · 7 pts · 301d
Exactly what we need right now, prisoners of war with dubious legal status
W9SSN@lemmy.radio · 4 pts · 300d
Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and valuable goods, or taking hostages. Those who conduct acts of piracy are called pirates, and vessels used for piracy are called pirate ships.