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"Two men who survived a US airstrike on a suspected drug smuggling boat in the
Caribbean clung to the wreckage for an hour before they were killed in a second
attack, according to a video of the episode shown to senators in Washington.
The men were shirtless, unarmed and carried no visible radio or other
communications equipment. They also appeared to have no idea what had just hit
them, or that the US military was weighing whether to finish them off, two
sources familiar with the recording told
Reuters.
The pair desperately tried to turn a severed section of the hull upright before
they died. “The video follows them for about an hour as they tried to flip the
boat back over. They couldn’t do it,” one source said.
The video of the attack on 2 September was seen by senators behind closed doors
on Thursday amid growing concern that the US defence secretary, Pete Hegseth,
and other officials who ordered the attack may have committed a war crime.
Later on Thursday, the Pentagon announced another deadly strike on a boat
suspected of carrying illegal narcotics, killing four men in the eastern
Pacific.
This was the 22nd attack the US military has carried out against boats in the
Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean and took the death toll of the campaign
to at least 87 people."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
