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being involved in the assassination of the Haitian president?
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any thoughts on the possibility of Erik Prince (Original Post)
gopiscrap
Jul 2021
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I posted about that the other day and no one had anything yet. I was thinking that thing may have
brewens
Jul 2021
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kimbutgar
(21,148 posts)1. I have thought the same thing!
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!
I have read about the use of for hire Colombian fighters by other governments in the past.
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)3. Just as likely as any other mercenary. nt
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
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.
Doubts raised about who was behind the assassination of Haitis president
Police claims that Jovenel Moïse was killed by a mainly Colombian hit squad thrown into doubt
Questions have been raised over Haitis 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 Moïses killing have claimed he was shot at about 1am by members of a predominantly Colombian hit squad who had stormed the presidents 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.
Police claims that Jovenel Moïse was killed by a mainly Colombian hit squad thrown into doubt
Questions have been raised over Haitis 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 Moïses killing have claimed he was shot at about 1am by members of a predominantly Colombian hit squad who had stormed the presidents 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
Deep State Witch
(10,426 posts)6. Would not surprise me.
Not in the least.