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The Pentagon's top spokesman has confirmed that at least seven Colombians implicated in the assassination of Haiti's president had received US training in the past,
but denied it might have somehow "encouraged" the hit.
"Thus far, we've identified seven individuals who were former members of the Colombian military that had received some sort of ... US funded and provided education and training,"
Defense Department spokesman John Kirby said on Thursday, stressing that
such training is "very common," and did not "[lead] to or [encourage] what happened in Haiti."
While Kirby declined to provide details on an individual basis for the seven assassins, he said the instruction included
"cadet leadership development, counter-drug operations, noncommissioned officer professional development, small-unit leadership training, human rights training, emergency medical training, some helicopter maintenance training, and those kinds of things."
He went on to say that he knew of no plans at the Pentagon to reconsider this "very valuable, ethical leadership training" program despite recent events in Haiti, which saw President Jovenel Moïse shot dead by gunmen at his home near Port-au-Prince earlier this month.
Around two dozen suspects have since been brought into Haitian custody, the majority of them former members of Colombia's military now working for private security firms, some based in the US.
Comment: This 'committee' has become a Democratic-stacked deck to protect the queen at all costs. Are we surprised?