{"id":66916,"date":"2026-02-20T22:05:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T03:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/us-military-strike-kills-three-in-second-alleged-drug-boat-attack-this-week\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T22:05:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T03:05:03","slug":"us-military-strike-kills-three-in-second-alleged-drug-boat-attack-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/us-military-strike-kills-three-in-second-alleged-drug-boat-attack-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"US military strike kills three in second alleged drug boat attack this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move brings total number of people killed in US strikes on suspected boats since September to at least 148<\/p>\n<p>The US military launched a strike on an alleged drug smuggling boat in the eastern Pacific on Friday, killing three men in its second strike this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIntelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations,\u201d US Southern Command, which oversees operations in Latin America and the Caribbean, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Southcom\/status\/2025006036776878463\">said on Twitter\/X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/20\/us-military-strike-drug-smuggling-pacific\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move brings total number of people killed in US strikes on suspected boats since September to at least 148 The US military launched a strike on an alleged drug smuggling boat in the eastern Pacific on Friday, killing three men in its second strike this week. \u201cIntelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking &#8230; <a title=\"US military strike kills three in second alleged drug boat attack this week\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/us-military-strike-kills-three-in-second-alleged-drug-boat-attack-this-week\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US military strike kills three in second alleged drug boat attack this week\">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-66916","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\/66916","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=66916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}