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'Al-Qaida of the West' Targeted in America's Narco-Terror War

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (Getty Images)

By    |   Thursday, 06 November 2025 07:53 AM EST

When Secretary of War Pete Hegseth took the podium to make a recent statement, the world got a blunt reminder that the United States is back in the business of taking out terrorists — this time not in the deserts of the Middle East, but on the blue waters of the Caribbean.

The announcement was short and direct: A U.S. "lethal kinetic strike" had destroyed a narco-vessel linked to Colombia's National Liberation Army (ELN), a Marxist terrorist group long described by American intelligence as "the al-Qaida of the West."

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When Secretary of War Pete Hegseth took the podium to make a recent statement, the world got a blunt reminder that the United States is back in the business of taking out terrorists — this time not in the deserts of the Middle East, but on the blue waters of the Caribbean.
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