Reference News Network, September 5 report: According to a report by Reuters on September 4, the U.S. Department of Defense said in the evening that two Venezuelan military aircraft approached a U.S. Navy ship in international waters.
The U.S. military killed 11 people on a Venezuelan vessel on September 2 in the Caribbean Sea. President Trump said that the vessel was carrying illegal drugs and belonged to a drug trafficking group he designated as a "terrorist organization." Legal experts have questioned this attack.
The report said, the U.S. Department of Defense stated on September 4: "Strongly advise (Venezuela) not to take further efforts to obstruct, deter or interfere with the U.S. military's anti-drug and counter-terrorism operations." The statement did not provide further details.
The report also said that the Pentagon stated that Venezuela's above action was a "highly provocative act," "intended to interfere with our anti-drug and counter-terrorism operations."
The New York Times quoted a U.S. Department of Defense official as reporting that two Venezuelan F-16 fighter jets flew over the U.S. Navy's "Jason Dunham" missile destroyer in the southern Caribbean Sea. The newspaper quoted the U.S. official as saying that the U.S. warship did not engage in combat. (Translated by Qiu Fang)
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