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US military vet recounts arrests in Haiti to AP
« on: March 22, 2019, 04:31:17 am »
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US military vet recounts arrests in Haiti to AP
Danica Coto and Michael Weissenstein, Associated Press

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — An American security contractor at the center of a mysterious case roiling Haitian politics says that he and a group of fellow veterans were sent to Haiti on a mission to protect a businessman signing a more than $50 million contract at the country's central bank.

Chris Osman, a 44-year-old retired Navy SEAL, told The Associated Press that he and six fellow contractors were arrested by Haitian police during what was supposed to be a simple Sunday afternoon reconnaissance of the route their client would take to the bank the following day, Feb. 18.

"It went bad for us," he said in the first on-the-record interview by any of the arrested men. "I don't know what the real truth is."

Read more at: https://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/US-military-vet-recounts-arrests-in-Haiti-to-AP-13705991.php

Okay, the original story was posted here. I think these must have been the guys arrested back in Feb. on weapons charges.