La., says he won't prejudge the Sept. 2 Caribbean strike as House and Senate Armed Services committees plan oversight hearings.

The Pentagon was aware that people had survived an initial September strike on a suspected drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean Sea before U.S. forces carried out a second attack, two people familiar with the matter told the Associated Press.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon knew there were survivors after a September attack on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean Sea and the U.S. military still carried out a follow-up strike, according to two people familiar with the matter.

The Pentagon knew there were survivors after a Sept. 2 strike on a Caribbean drug boat before a second hit, The Associated Press reports, triggering U.S. investigations.

New satellite imagery has emerged showing the USS Gerald R. Ford positioned in Caribbean waters close to the U.S. Virgin Islands. Tensions are rising in the region as U.S. continues to build up its military presence close to Venezuela.

Leavitt said Admiral Frank Bradley directed a second strike to “ensure the boat was destroyed and the threat of narco-terrorists to the United States was completely eliminated.”

The Republican chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Monday said Secretary Pete Hegseth had confirmed to him there was a second US strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean in September — an attack that has drawn bipartisan scrutiny on Capitol Hill.

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