Exclusive-US set to transfer Caribbean strike survivors overseas instead of POW-style detention

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump's administration is moving to send the two survivors of a Thursday strike in the Caribbean to a different country rather than seek long-term military detention for them, four U.S. officials told Reuters on Saturday.

Reuters could not definitively establish the nationalities of the two detainees. One of the officials said it was possible that one of them was Colombian but did not offer that information with certainty.

The U.S. military staged a helicopter rescue for the survivors on Thursday after the strike on their semi-submersible vessel, suspected of trafficking illegal narcotics. The strike killed the other two crew members on board, sources told Reuters on Friday.

The U.S. military flew the survivors to a U.S. Navy warship in the Caribbean, where they were detained until at least Friday evening. It was not clear if they had already been flown off the ship as of Saturday morning.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/exclusive-us-set-transfer-caribbean-174019194.html

Wonder if this was just CYA,

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1. Sounds a lot like CYA to me.

Mistakes are made when one indiscriminately fires at small boats, as has been suggested many times.

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2. Extra-Judicial military action and kidnapping - Trump Crime Syndicate's playbook