{"id":38991,"date":"2025-09-20T00:17:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T00:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=38991"},"modified":"2025-09-20T00:17:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T00:17:44","slug":"trump-announces-3-narcoterrorists-killed-in-third-us-strike-on-international-drug-traffickers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=38991","title":{"rendered":"Trump announces 3 \u2018narcoterrorists\u2019 killed in third US strike on international drug traffickers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 President Trump announced Friday that the US military carried out a third strike against alleged drug traffickers affiliated with a terror organization \u2014 killing \u201c3 male narcoterrorists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn my Orders, the Secretary of War ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/115233555445134712\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Trump posted on Truth Social<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The president did not say which terror group was targeted or which nation the vessel originated from.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIntelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking illicit narcotics, and was transiting along a known narcotrafficking passage enroute to poison Americans,\u201d Trump continued.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><button class=\"button button--modal-trigger\" aria-label=\"Open the image in a modal.\" data-modal-image=\"37162666\"><\/button><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-37162666\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/https-truthsocial-com-realdonaldtrump-posts-111754361.jpg?w=1024\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" 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international waters.<\/p>\n<div class=\"comments-inline-cta\" data-comment-count=\"\" data-prompt=\"What do you think?\">\n<div>\n<p>Footage of the airstrike included in Trump\u2019s post shows a small boat racing across the ocean before the massive explosion leaves it engulfed in flames.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSTOP SELLING FENTANYL, NARCOTICS, AND ILLEGAL DRUGS IN AMERICA, AND COMMITTING VIOLENCE AND TERRORISM AGAINST AMERICANS!!!\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; WASHINGTON \u2014 President Trump announced Friday that the US military carried out a third strike against alleged drug traffickers affiliated with a terror organization \u2014 killing \u201c3 male &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38992,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38991\/revisions\/38992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}