New US "Bomb! Oopsie! Release!" program
Updated Oct 19, 2025
By Natasha Bertrand, Zachary Cohen
Updated Oct 19, 2025
The US released the two survivors of Thursday’s military strike on a suspected drug vessel in the Caribbean to their home countries of Ecuador and Colombia, President Donald Trump said Saturday.
Trump said it was his “great honor” to destroy a drug-carrying “submarine” with “four known narcoterrorists on board,” two of whom were killed.
“At least 25,000 Americans would die if I allowed this submarine to come ashore. The two surviving terrorists are being returned to their Countries of origin, Ecuador and Colombia, for detention and prosecution,” he posted on Truth Social. “Under my watch, the United States of America will not tolerate narcoterrorists trafficking illegal drugs, by land or by sea.”
Jeison Obando Perez, 34, was named as the survivor returned to Colombia in a post on X from the country’s interior minister Armando Benedetti. Perez arrived “with brain trauma, sedated, drugged, breathing with a ventilator,” Benedetti said, adding that he had received medical attention ...
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/18/politics/caribbean-boat-strike-survivors
We didn't kill them? Well, don't expect us to prove they were actually drug-smiugglers!