Six Suspects in Haiti President Killing Were Ex-Military, Colombia Says

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Colombia’s government said that at least six of the 17 suspects involved in the brazen assassination of Haiti’s president, Jovenel Moïse, were retired members of that country’s armed forces.

Haiti’s National Police chief, Leon Charles, said on Thursday that security forces detained 15 Colombian nationals and two Haitian-Americans as they hunted down the suspected killers across the upscale hillside suburb where Mr. Moïse lived. The authorities credited ordinary Haitians for helping round up some of the suspects.

In Bogotá, Colombia’s police chief, Gen. Jorge Luis Vargas, said the government appointed an investigative team that includes military intelligence officers to provide financial information, flight schedules and other information relevant to the case. That information will be shared with Interpol and Haitian authorities who are investigating the slaying, he said.

Mr. Vargas said that two of the six suspects believed to be retired members of the Colombian army were killed in gunfights with security forces. After a half-century guerrilla conflict, some Colombian former army officers and soldiers have been contracted by security companies world-wide. Others have joined the drug gangs that operate in Colombia or elsewhere in Latin America, Colombian officials and analysts who track the conflict there have said.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/six-suspects-in-haiti-president-killing-were-ex-military-colombia-says/ar-AALY6jM

[poli-junkie]

1. I wonder if these former military

were contracted by a security company. If so, then which one? Putin’s? Erik Prince’s?

[JoanofArgh]

5. As soon as I read the word mercenary, first person I thought of was Erik Prince.

Could be anybody in the business , though.

[greenjar_01]

2. Former Colombian military and some US nationals/"protective service"

This is a mercenary/paramilitary kill squad for sure.

These people were very obviously working for somebody/some entity.

Read Phil Klay's excellent novel Missionaries for a really good fictional depiction / contemplation of the global shift toward targeted killing with special forces/ex-military kill squads. Really good.

[Devil Child]

3. Thank you greenjar_01 the rec'd book looks very intriguing n/t

[Submariner]

4. Seems surprising so many were caught, and so quickly

I would think with a supposedly professional hit like this that they would want to have a near fool proof escape plan, and a Plan B.

[crickets]

6. It is odd, and surprising to me not only that so many were caught

but that there were so many to catch in the first place. It seems like an awfully large team to go after one man sleeping in his bed.