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Post by casimira on Jul 7, 2021 15:16:42 GMT
Early this morning the President of Haiti Jovenel Moise was assassinated in his home.
Pure chaos in the streets with the military and police trying to take charge.
What a mess.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 7, 2021 17:18:40 GMT
I’ve been to Haiti.
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Post by lagatta on Jul 8, 2021 1:28:01 GMT
Haïti est ici... Casimira, I imagine that there is also a significant Haitian community in NOLA?
Much as the many Haitians I know here had no love for their corrupt President, they are by no means happy about this development. This just takes things from bad to worse.
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Post by bjd on Jul 9, 2021 18:15:42 GMT
I saw on the news that 26 Colombians (of whom 17 were arrested) and 2 Haitian-Americans took part in the assassination. Given that many of the Colombians were ex-military and recruited as mercenaries, why on earth were so many people necessary? Nothing like the movies when one or two guys sneak in somewhere and kill the target! Were these guys just completely incompetent?
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 9, 2021 18:20:59 GMT
And Taiwan was involved, too! So strange but not surprising.
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Post by onlyMark on Jul 9, 2021 20:20:11 GMT
When you read up on the details of how Mossad does this sort of thing, they tend to use a couple of dozen of people.
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Post by fumobici on Jul 9, 2021 20:47:59 GMT
It looks like they had no escape plan at all however, which suggests a less than professional operation. The "guns ablazing" approach and all the loose ends also reeks of amateurism. Apparently nearly everyone in Haiti despised the man so the suspect list must be huge.
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Post by fumobici on Jul 9, 2021 21:39:10 GMT
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Post by bjd on Jul 10, 2021 6:15:51 GMT
As some journalists commented on France24 yesterday -- given how long the Haitian police took to get in there, why didn't the hit squad just leave and sneak across the border? And, if there was several hours of gun battle, where were all the dead bodies?
The whole thing is clear as mud. And now the Haitians are asking for US and UN troops to go in to protect the infrastructure. UN troops were in Haiti from 2002 to 2017. For the moment, there is no agreement on who should be in charge.
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Post by spaceneedle on Jul 14, 2021 7:04:35 GMT
I saw on the news that 26 Colombians (of whom 17 were arrested) and 2 Haitian-Americans took part in the assassination. Given that many of the Colombians were ex-military and recruited as mercenaries, why on earth were so many people necessary? Nothing like the movies when one or two guys sneak in somewhere and kill the target! Were these guys just completely incompetent? The story around this assassination is unfolding like something out of a spy novel. Really weird stuff that IMO smacks of the CIA.
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