FBI Director Kash Patel gestures as he testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., September 16, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Drug trafficking organizations must be treated the way foreign terrorist organizations were treated after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, FBI Director Kash Patel said on Tuesday, pledging that the campaign against them will be a years-long mission.
"We must treat them like the al Qaedas of the world," Patel said at a Senate hearing, a day after President Donald Trump said the U.S. military carried out a strike on a second Venezuelan boat in international waters.
