{"id":56017,"date":"2025-10-24T08:55:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T13:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/pete-hegseth-says-u-s-carried-out-another-strike-on-an-alleged-drug-carrying-boat-in-the-caribbean-sea\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T08:55:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T13:55:50","slug":"pete-hegseth-says-u-s-carried-out-another-strike-on-an-alleged-drug-carrying-boat-in-the-caribbean-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/pete-hegseth-says-u-s-carried-out-another-strike-on-an-alleged-drug-carrying-boat-in-the-caribbean-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Hegseth says U.S. carried out another strike on an alleged drug-carrying boat in the Caribbean Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday that the U.S. struck a boat allegedly carrying drugs in the Caribbean Sea, marking at least the third time this week that the U.S. has attacked a vessel it says was involved in drug trafficking.\u201cThe vessel was known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, was transiting along a known narco-trafficking route, and carrying narcotics,\u201d Hegseth wrote in a post on X. \u201cSix male narco-terrorists were aboard the vessel during th<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday that the U.S. struck a boat allegedly carrying drugs in the Caribbean Sea, marking at least the third time this week that the U.S. has attacked a vessel it says was involved in drug trafficking.\u201cThe vessel was known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, was &#8230; <a title=\"Pete Hegseth says U.S. carried out another strike on an alleged drug-carrying boat in the Caribbean Sea\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/pete-hegseth-says-u-s-carried-out-another-strike-on-an-alleged-drug-carrying-boat-in-the-caribbean-sea\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Pete Hegseth says U.S. carried out another strike on an alleged drug-carrying boat in the Caribbean Sea\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}