Pentagon admits it skilled SEVEN of Haiti president’s murderers, however denies ‘encouraging’ assassination

The Pentagon’s prime spokesman has confirmed that at the least seven Colombians implicated within the assassination of Haiti’s president had acquired US coaching prior to now, however denied it might need by some means “inspired” the hit.

“So far, we’ve recognized seven people who had been former members of the Colombian navy that had acquired some kind of … US funded and supplied training and coaching,” Protection Division spokesman John Kirby mentioned on Thursday, stressing that such coaching is “quite common,” and didn’t “[lead] to or [encourage] what occurred in Haiti.”

Whereas Kirby declined to supply particulars on a person foundation for the seven assassins, he mentioned the instruction included “cadet management growth, counter-drug operations, noncommissioned officer skilled growth, small-unit management coaching, human rights coaching, emergency medical coaching, some helicopter upkeep coaching, and people sorts of issues.”

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He went on to say that he knew of no plans on the Pentagon to rethink this “very priceless, moral management coaching” program regardless of latest occasions in Haiti, which noticed President Jovenel Moïse shot useless by gunmen at his residence close to Port-au-Prince earlier this month. Round two dozen suspects have since been introduced into Haitian custody, nearly all of them former members of Colombia’s navy now working for personal safety corporations, some primarily based within the US.

The Pentagon had beforehand confirmed that a few of the Colombian assassins had acquired American coaching, however declined to supply any particulars on the time. 

Although Kirby repeatedly argued that the US coaching programs performed no position within the presidential hit, the assassination comes as the newest in a protracted line of coups and homicide plots involving US-trained overseas personnel. Since 2008, Africa alone has seen no fewer than seven navy coups spearheaded by American-trained fighters. Among the many most up-to-date are two separate coups in Mali since August 2020, each led by US-trained Colonel Assimi Goïta.

Worldwide, the document on US coaching packages seems way more damning. Between 1970 and 2009, American-trained militants had been concerned in 165 coup makes an attempt, based on analysis printed in 2017 by Jonathan Caverley of the US Naval Battle School and Jesse Savage of Trinity School Dublin. Although their analysis was confined to solely two particular packages, they discovered a “strong relationship between US coaching of overseas militaries and military-backed coup makes an attempt.”

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