If the U.S. military does confront drug cartels in Mexico, it will find itself facing battle with its own weapons.
To keep her in detention in Texas, the Trump administration pointed to Leqaa Kordia’s remittances to family in Palestine.
The U.S. military justified the slaughter of alleged drug traffickers by claiming links to "designated terrorist organizations."
Trump has deployed roughly 35,000 federal troops within the United States this year, according to exclusive figures provided to The Intercept by official military sources. image