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any thoughts on the possibility of Erik Prince (Original Post) gopiscrap Jul 2021 OP
I have thought the same thing! kimbutgar Jul 2021 #1
It was my very FIRST thought! Quakerfriend Jul 2021 #2
Just as likely as any other mercenary. nt Progressive Jones Jul 2021 #3
I posted about that the other day and no one had anything yet. I was thinking that thing may have brewens Jul 2021 #4
It's actually starting to look like his own security detail was behind it, kind of like Sadat. PSPS Jul 2021 #5
Would not surprise me. Deep State Witch Jul 2021 #6

kimbutgar

(21,148 posts)
1. I have thought the same thing!
Sat Jul 10, 2021, 02:55 PM
Jul 2021

I bet these were paid mercenaries and wonder who paid them?

Who benefits from this assassination?

Quakerfriend

(5,450 posts)
2. It was my very FIRST thought!
Sat Jul 10, 2021, 02:59 PM
Jul 2021

I have read about the use of for hire Colombian fighters by other governments in the past.

brewens

(13,585 posts)
4. I posted about that the other day and no one had anything yet. I was thinking that thing may have
Sat Jul 10, 2021, 03:08 PM
Jul 2021

been set in motion before Biden took office. Maybe anyone in the CIA or military in the loop was a FG plant that kept their mouth shut or left. It sure stinks like something Prince would be involved in.

PSPS

(13,595 posts)
5. It's actually starting to look like his own security detail was behind it, kind of like Sadat.
Sat Jul 10, 2021, 04:04 PM
Jul 2021
Doubts raised about who was behind the assassination of Haiti’s president

Police claims that Jovenel Moïse was killed by a mainly Colombian hit squad thrown into doubt

Questions have been raised over Haiti’s official narrative for the assassination of its president, Jovenel Moïse, who was gunned down at his mansion in Port-au-Prince last Wednesday. Haitian police and the politicians who stepped into the political vacuum created by Moïse’s killing have claimed he was shot at about 1am by members of a predominantly Colombian hit squad who had stormed the president’s hillside residence. “Foreigners came to our country to kill the president,” police chief Léon Charles alleged after the shooting.

However, opposition politicians and media reports in Haiti and Colombia are now casting doubt on that version, as uncertainty grips the Caribbean country and the streets of the capital remain eerily quiet amid fears Haiti is lurching into a new phase of political and social upheaval. On Friday, Steven Benoit, a prominent opposition politician and former senator, told the local radio station Magik9: “The president was assassinated by his own guards, not by the Colombians.”

A report in the Colombian magazine Semana, citing an anonymous source, suggested the former Colombian soldiers had travelled to Haiti after being hired to protect Moïse, who had reputedly been receiving death threats, rather than kill him.

Further adding to the mystery, the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo claimed a source had told it that security footage from the presidential compound showed the Colombian operatives arriving there at between 2.30 and 2.40am on Wednesday. “That means they arrived one and a half hours after the crime against the president,” the source was quoted as saying.


More here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/10/doubts-raised-about-who-was-behind-the-assassination-of-haitis-president
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