CNN: Britain suspends information sharing with US on Caribbean boats
The United Kingdom will no longer share information about suspected “drug trafficking” vessels in the Caribbean with the United States, American media reported.
According to Isna, CNN wrote about this: Britain’s decision shows the coury’s significa distance from its closest ally and ielligence partner, the United States, and highlights growing doubts about US military strikes throughout Latin America.
“For years, Britain, which owns a number of Caribbean territories and has deployed its ielligence assets there, has helped the United States find ships suspected of carrying drugs so that the United States Coast Guard can seize them,” CNN News TV reported, citing Akah sources. “This means ships are stopped, their crews are detained and their drugs are seized.”
This information was usually se to the Ieragency Task Force South, a Florida-based task force that includes represeatives from a number of partner couries and works to reduce the illegal drug trade.
“But shortly after the US began deadly attacks against the boats in September, Britain became concerned that the US might be using information provided by the UK to select targets,” the US outlet added.
“British officials believe the US military strikes, which killed 76 people, violate iernational law and that the ielligence freeze began more than a moh ago,” the sources told CNN.
Volker Türk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, recely said that these attacks “violate iernational law” and are equivale to “extrajudicial killings”.
The sources also told CNN that Britain “concurs” with this assessme.
The British Embassy in Washington, the Peagon and the White House have not yet commeed on this matter.
CNN further reported, quoting these informed sources: “Before the US military began blowing up the boats in September, the fight against illegal drug trafficking was carried out by law enforceme and the US Coast Guard. Cartel members and drug traffickers were treated as criminals with due process rights; Something Britain would gladly help with. But Preside Donald Trump’s administration has argued that the US military can legally kill suspected smugglers because they pose an immine threat to Americans who are in an armed conflict with the United States.
In addition to Britain, Canada is another key ally of the United States that has helped the US Coast Guard arrest suspected “drug traffickers in the Caribbean” for nearly 2 decades.
CNN reported about Canada, which also distanced itself from US military strikes.
Sources familiar with the matter told this American outlet: “Canada plans to coinue its cooperation with the Coast Guard, called Operation Caribbean, but the coury has made it clear to the United States that it does not wa its information to be used to help target boats for deadly attacks.”
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