US Military Launches 30th Strike in Boat Bombing Campaign

US Southern Command announced on Monday that its forces bombed another alleged drug-running boat in the waters of Latin America, marking the 30th strike since the campaign began on September 2.

SOUTHCOM said the boat was targeted in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and claimed, without providing any evidence, that it was “transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations.”

The command said that the strike killed two “narco-terrorists,” a term the Trump administration has used to justify the executions at sea that don’t involve a trial or a judge for an alleged crime that doesn’t receive the death penalty in the US.

The latest killings bring the total number of people extra-judicially executed by the US military at sea to 107. The Pentagon has never provided evidence to back up its claims about what the boats were carrying and has admitted it doesn’t know the identities of all the people it is killing.