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The US is now led by war criminals.
According to a new report by the The Washington Post, the following happened:
Pete Hegseth, U.S. Defense Secretary, reportedly gave a verbal order to “kill everybody” aboard a suspected drug-trafficking boat near Trinidad.
A first missile strike destroyed the boat, killing 11 people.
After that, two survivors were seen clinging to the burning wreckage.
A second strike was then ordered by the Special Operations commander on the scene — reportedly to follow Hegseth’s directive — and the two men apparently were “blown apart in the water.”
Neither man was captured, charged, or given any trial. The Pentagon denies the leaked account.
What is reported amounts to the lethal killing of untried persons who at that moment posed no evident combat threat, on what are reportedly orders from high-level U.S. officials.
Many legal and human-rights experts quoted in the reporting describe the strike as illegal under international law, and potentially a war crime or murder, because the victims were no longer a threat once incapacitated and thus couldn’t be lawfully targeted.
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