Shafaq News – Washington, D.C.
On Thursday, Senior US military officials presentedPresident Donald Trump with updated options for possible operations inVenezuela, including land strikes, according to sources familiar with WhiteHouse meetings cited by CBS.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefsof Staff Dan Kain, and other senior officials briefed the president on militaryoptions for the coming days, the sources said, adding that “No final decisionhas been made.”
At a defence summit in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Hegseth framedthe administration’s campaign against drug traffickers as a centraljustification for potential action. He said, “My advice to foreign terroristorganisations is do not get on a boat if you are smuggling drugs to poison theAmerican people,” adding, “We know you are a designated terrorist organisation,or a foreign terrorist or a smuggler — we will find you and we will kill you.”
White House spokespeople did not immediately comment, and aPentagon spokesman declined to comment, the sources said.
US intelligence agencies contributed information to theplanning of the possible operations, according to the officials.
Earlier this week,the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford entered the area of responsibility of USSouthern Command, the military unit responsible for operations in the Caribbeanand South America. The carrier has joined a force of destroyers, warplanes, andspecial operations assets already in the region.
Over the past two months, US forces have struck at least 21vessels alleged to be transporting narcotics from South America to the UnitedStates (20 strikes to date, with a late-October operation that targeted twoboats). At least 80 alleged smugglers were killed in those strikes. Twosurvived and were returned to their home countries, Ecuador and Colombia.
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