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soryang

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Wed Feb 20, 2019, 03:06 PM Feb 2019

Why were former U.S. military driving around Haiti heavily armed?

Miami Herald

Why were former members of the U.S. military driving around Haiti heavily armed?
BY JACQUELINE CHARLES AND
MONIKA LEAL

FEBRUARY 19, 2019 07:49 PM,

UPDATED 4 HOURS 22 MINUTES AGO


PORT-AU-PRINCE
Three are former U.S. military and a fourth once worked as a federal contractor for the U.S. government.

But what may have brought them to Haiti and put them together on a Port-au-Prince street remained a mystery Tuesday as Haitian police continued their investigation into the arrest of eight heavily armed men, including five Americans....

...Inside their vehicles: six automatic rifles, six pistols, two professional drones and three satellite phones, police told the Miami Herald.


https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article226475635.html
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Why were former U.S. military driving around Haiti heavily armed? (Original Post) soryang Feb 2019 OP
Never know where or when a war could pop up. marble falls Feb 2019 #1
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