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The U.S. military attacked three more alleged drug-trafficking boats off the Latin American coast, this time all three “were transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and were engaged in narco-trafficking,” officials at Southern Command said in a statement and compilation video posted to social media Monday evening. “A total of eight male narco-terrorists were killed during these actions—three in the first vessel, two in the second and th