*VIDEO AVAILABLE: info@covermg.com*This is the incredible moment the U.S. Coast Guard took out a drug smuggling boat's engine with a bullet. Footage shows warning shots strafing across the water in front of the fast-moving boat in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, before a marksman disabled the vessel's engine. It is thought that the warning shots from the helicopter would have been fired with a mounted M240 machine gun, while the disabling round would have come from a precision rifle. The scenes are among highlights of the Coast Guard Cutter Stratton patrol boat as it returned to Coast Guard Island on 29 June after a 94-day counter-drug patrol in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. During the tour, The crew detected and interdicted five suspected drug smuggling vessels, detained 14 suspected drug smugglers and seized over 6,000 pounds of cocaine worth an estimated $113 million. The Stratton's advanced capabilities include a small unmanned aircraft system, an attached Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron MH-65 helicopter and aircrew, and an embarked Law Enforcement Detachment from the Pacific Tactical Law Enforcement Team. On June 27, Stratton's crew offloaded 3,720 pounds of marijuana seized in known drug-transit zones in early June by Coast Guard and U.S. Navy assets. The contraband and five suspected drug smugglers were transferred to the Department of Justice officials in San Diego for prosecution. Stratton's deployment began in late March as part of U.S. Southern Command's enhanced counter-narcotics operations in the Western Hemisphere to disrupt the flow of drugs in support of Presidential National Security Objectives.Where: East Pacific OceanWhen: 09 Jul 2020Credit: USCG/Cover Images**Editorial use only*VIDEO AVAILABLE: info@covermg.com***

V okviru kampanje so ameriške sile od septembra lani ubile že preko 200 ljudi. Fotografija je simbolična Reuters

Američani v nekaj mesecih ubili več kot 200 domnevnih tihotapcev droge

Ameriške sile so v soboto v vzhodnem Pacifiku napadle še en čoln domnevnih tihotapcev mamil. Kot je sporočilo južno poveljstvo ameriške vojske (SOUTHCOM), so v operaciji ubili tri ljudi. S tem je skupno število smrtnih žrtev sporne večmesečne kampanje ZDA proti domnevnim tihotapcem v Karibih in vzhodnem Pacifiku preseglo 200.

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"Obveščevalni podatki so potrdili, da je plovilo plulo po znanih poteh za trgovino z drogami v vzhodnem Pacifiku in je bilo [vanjo] vpleteno (...)," je ob objavi videoposnetka napada na čoln na družbenem omrežju X zapisalo poveljstvo. Navedlo je, da so bili med operacijo ubiti "trije moški narkoteroristi".

ZDA se soočajo s problemom mamil, odgovornost za katerega vlada predsednika Donalda Trumpa pripisuje tujim tihotapskim mrežam, zlasti iz Latinske Amerike.

V okviru kampanje proti njim so ameriške sile od septembra lani ubile že preko 200 ljudi. Washington sicer odtlej še nikoli ni predložil dokazov, da je katero od napadenih plovil dejansko vpleteno v trgovino s prepovedanimi substancami.

Strokovnjaki za mednarodno pravo in skupine za človekove pravice ameriške napade opredeljujejo kot izvensodne poboje.

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