A secondary strike on an alleged drug trafficking boat in the Caribbean on Sept. 2, taking out survivors of an initial hit by U.S. forces, was conducted within established rules of engagement, retired Air Force Lt. Col. Berney Flowers said on Newsmax Sunday.
“Before the first boat leaves the port, before the first airplane launches, we’ve got rules of engagement,” Flowers on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America Weekend.” “Commanders know that you need to stay within those rules of engagement.”
Flowers said he agrees with both U.S. Navy Adm. Frank “Mitch” Bradley, who testified last week to lawmakers that he’d ordered the second strike on the boat, and with Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., who defended the strikes as being “entirely lawful.”
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