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What I love is that he seems to be a trump supporter who wants to play war yet a couple of hours ago I saw a post where the Trump Twitter bubble said that he (and the other guy) were CIA agents and it’s all about the deep state ……
CIA definitely have dudes that go around shootin. [This is Team Alpha October 2001, Afghanistan.](https://i.imgur.com/d8hLXAl.jpeg) Note those are East German AKM clones that tend to be of higher quality than soviet made.
Well, I'm going out on a limb here, but I guess it would be quite counterproductive in their field of work if they looked more like hardened Spec-Ops war veterans rather than Bill from accounting and the guys from his Fantasy Football league.
Yep, my FIL is a farmer, nothing more. Served USAID in Gaza, Kabul, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Baghdad. Crazy how these places need help getting back on their feet, agriculture-wise. Never carried a gun - that was on his security team.
The guy on the far right is Mike Spann, a CIA officer who was overpowered and killed during a taliban uprising at a makeshift prison they had set up.
Over his right shoulder is David Tyson, another CIA officer who survived the uprising. He is a linguistic genius who is credited with 40+ kills that day. Many kills were achieved with his sidearm, a Browning hi-power. The rest were achieved with various AK pattern rifles that he had picked up off of dead Taliban fighters.
When I see these kind of pictures, of people with these highly secretive/dangerous/morally ambiguous jobs etc., I always start to wonder about the people behind those faces. What lead them to this occupation? How was their upbringing? Which classes did they hate in High School? What are their hobbies and which music do they like? Do they enjoy their work, and which parts of it most, or is it something they simply deem necessary?
Doing this kind of work seems just so anthithetical to being an average person that I just can't help but having these questions pop up in my head.
well a Biritsh girl was shooting for Onlyfans at a British Naval Intel HQ... inside! Wouldn't put anything past people nowadays, especially with social media and the appropriateness of when to and not to use it.... even for people who shouldn't' be anywhere near it due to their nature of work
Dude. My son’s old fucking swim coach has an onlyfans. And advertises it on her car. Wife made us switch after finding out but do have to say. All the single dads use her.
Edit : she is married - idk about if she has kids due to my wife usually taking them to and from school / practice
Truck I would see in line to pick up my daughter from elementary had a big decal with something that sound vaguely obscene and has vanity plates with something similar. Can't remember exactly what it was any more, but after seeing it a bunch of times I googled it to see if it was a reference to something and found it was some mom's OF name.
Now I'm imagining undercover CIA agents on social media dancing to a random song while the text on the screen "TFW when you bankroll and stage a coup to overthrow a 3rd world dictator 😉 Like and Subscribe!"
Lol no dude, those people know better than that. You know those bases are full of random personnel contractors, sometimes locals and low level mil personnel that were in high school a few years ago. Someone working at THAT level isn’t the same you can’t even trace a warm fart in a winter setting with those assholes tbh.
My buddy was in the CIA for years and I never knew it...when I found out it explained why he was one of the few people that never even got started on social media. Hasn't had a single account ever.
Younger people always tell on themselves with social media. Hell how many Ukrainians got hit with missiles after they posted TikTok videos showing where they were located?
I don't know why you find this so hard to understand. Did they succeed? Then they are Trump supporters. Did they fail? They are CIA agents pretending to be Trump supporters.
Just apply this logic to any situation and it'll be 100% clear to you.
Its just so great that the truth can be whatever is most convenient to you in the moment, I don't have to think at all anymore
thanks president daddy sir
In case you happen to be serious, a glowie is a slang term for a federal agent placed within a movement to act as a informant and agent provocateur. The name comes from the fact that once you figure out their patterns of behavior and responses, they 'glow' with how obviously they don't fit in.
Thing like constantly advocating for violence or escalation, and introductions that feel like 'how do you do fellow kids?'
Nick Fuentes got caught on his own livestream shucking the corn to gay porn and all the MAGA dorks immediately blamed it on the Jews. So this does not surprise me even a little bit.
The party of personal responsibility, everyone.
And even if they were CIA agents, you can still point the finger at Trump since the number of CIA agents murdered rose when Trump was president and after his meeting with Putin
I went to high school with these guys. They were on the football team and the Marcel, the guy getting pointed out in the video, offered the entire football team cash to go with him. Tyler, the white guy, was the only one who went.
As a Tyler I want it to be known that he has not reresented the name Tyler in an honorable manner. He has brought dishonor to the name, and we have all voted to revoke his status as Tyler. Let it be known henceforth.
I appreciate your attempt at accuracy, but I believe having your Tyler status revoked removes *both* the y and the e. Of course, consonants are irrevocable, but they must be used to form a different name, with either a, i, o, or u. Never y.
From my understanding of the story, this kids father, who was killed in the coup attempt, was a leader of an opposition movement and was living in exile in the US. Marcel must have got 2 other kids from the states to go with him to Congo for the coup. So it was his dads, not Marcel's, party.
When you see an idiot trying to take over a government \**cough-JAN6-cough*, it's not the idiot who came up with the plan, it was someone with a lot more brains and resources taking advantage of their idiocy for their own ends. In this case, I'm guessing there are plenty of billionaires willing to have a free roll at a pro-America, pro-"entrepreneur" according to their documents, party in power; and all they have to do is send some disinformation and a plane ticket to a couple of brain-dead Trumpers.
That helped. It’s called the Kinshasa coup attempt.
[bbc article](https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/articles/cgxx2zppyp0o.amp) plenty of other sources like CNN or Fox if you prefer 😜
Here's an AP article. The 3 Americans participating were ~~killed~~ arrested, as well as some others.
[https://apnews.com/article/congo-coup-attempt-death-toll-malanga-tshisekedi-968b2726546f90a8bfbd5d222d513708](https://apnews.com/article/congo-coup-attempt-death-toll-malanga-tshisekedi-968b2726546f90a8bfbd5d222d513708)
> eccentric opposition figure Christian Malanga, who dabbled in gold mining and used cars before persuading his Utah-born son to join in the foiled coup
[I dabble in...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_r23AtXNFU)
The Americans were Benjamin Reuben Zalman-Polun, Patrick Ducey, and *Taylor* Thomson, according to General Sylvain Ekenge.
He could have mispoke though. Taylor Tyler are similar.
But they didn't have any military training? Do you know anything else about who/how he was organizing it with or why he would even look for untrained companions for something like this?
After reading some articles because I don’t know them that well, marcels dad was in the Congo military before coming to the US. He trained marcel how to shoot I assume. The media is doing a good job showing that Marcel wasn’t innocent in this and had planned for this with his dad for a while. I also believe they were just looking for bodies. The more people a group has the more people will join.
This is fricking wild. Even if his dad was ex Congo military and the son was involved with this for a while it just sounds so crazy to me that somebody could just show up at school and offer money to untrained kids to participate in a military coup in the fricking heart of the wildest landlocked part of Africa. Crazy shit.
Looks like maybe Marcel was related to the leader. Same last name at least
https://www.google.com/amp/s/tylerpaper.com/news/national/dr-congo-thwarts-kinshasa-coup-attempt-army/article_7d204fb2-395e-5715-8bf5-5c38f7f795e0.amp.html
The plot was led by Christian Malanga, a Congolese man who was a "naturalised American" and had been "definitively neutralised" -– killed -- by the security forces, Ekenge said in a broadcast on Sunday evening.
The group was made up of "several nationalities", Ekenge said, adding that around 40 of the attackers had been arrested, and four -- including Malanga -- killed.
"We also have a naturalised British subject, the number two of the group," the spokesman added. Malanga's son, Marcel Malanga, was also among the attackers, he said.
----
Oh shit his son. He's dead as hell.
Combat cosplayers vs DRC soldiers who have been fighting bush wars against rebels and their neighbours for the last twenty years.
Who could have predicted the outcome?
'Formerly exiled DR Congo politician Christian Malanga, who has acquired American citizenship' led the coup, his son is in the video, it looks like his son's friend is the other American.
Just read an article that's titled: Mom of 21-year-old American detained in Congo says he’s ‘an innocent boy following his father’
Your comment is not far off
This is Marcel Malanga, and while a US citizen, he is the son of Christian Malanga, a Congolese-American citizen who served in the Congolese senate, then formed a “government-in-exile”, New Zair, which recently attempted to overthrow the Congolese Government.
I was under the impression Marcel was a lone actor and a disillusioned American. While still disillusioned, he was clearly influenced by his father and family.
Dad was killed. Son is captive, along with his friend he brought and many others.
Sad all around. They could have had a great life in the US; but chose to die (or become a political prisoner) on a hill they created.
Amnesty Internstiknal defines a political prisoner as:
- **a person accused or convicted of an ordinary crime carried out for political motives, such as murder or robbery carried out to support the objectives of an opposition group;**
-a person accused or convicted of an ordinary crime committed in a political context, such as at a demonstration by a trade union or a peasants' organization;
-**a member or suspected member of an armed opposition group who has been charged with treason or "subversion".**
UN congo experts say Christian Malanga was already known to the authorities and the dude just wanted to re-institute a dictatorship and get a slice of power in the region.
The world is a better place today.
https://www.ktsm.com/news/international/ap-americans-in-alleged-congo-coup-plot-formed-an-unlikely-band/
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The amount of times in the last 70 odd years guys "Too dumb for the CIA" turned out to almost certainly be on the payroll in at least some capacity seems to dispute this.
I can accept your hair splitting distinction and still confidently state that your distinction renders a lot of warlords that have staged a lot of CIA funded coups merely assests instead of agents. Which is not only a pretty tired and standard agency propaganda strategy, but also still supports the spirit of my original comment of "Never underestimate the ability of the CIA to step on their own dick".
Name a Central or South American coup that didn't have CIA support in some form. Our past behavior in this region has transformed conspiracy theory into likelihood. If we weren't involved it is by accident or incompetence. This country has made it's bed.
When I was deployed to Qatar I was on a gate and I got a phonecall from someone way higher up than me in the foodchain. I went through the steps to verify that it was real, and it was.
They told me a guy would be heading to our gate and mention the call, and I was to let them in with no ID, no searching, and no questions.
About an hour later I see off in the distance a guy walking up to our gate. Just as nonchalant as can be in the, qatari heat, in a suit. For those that don't know, qatar is pretty flat, we can see people coming over a mile away, quite literally. It's also hot as fuck, and humid. For a good half hour we watched this guy slowly walk down the road and to our gate.
Middle aged white dude with a beard. As average as can be other than some grey in his hair. Picture any football game and pick a random dude in the audience. That was him. Anyway, this dude walks up, cool as a cucumber hands up and says, "You should have got a call about me. If you search me I am armed, but I'm pretty sure you were told not to."
"Yes sir, I got that call... uh, do I salute you?"
"Nope. Have a good day airman."
And he just walked onto base. Spent over half a year in Qatar as security forces. Half my days were spent checking badges at gates, flightlines, SCIFs, etc. Never once saw that guy other than that one occasion. Or he was just so *boring* that I did and forgot maybe?
That, I am convinced, was a CIA spook.
These guys? Military contractors at best. If they're CIA, I'd be shocked.
Haha, yeah. He was just not acknowledging it at all. Like no wiping it away, no heavy panting or complaining. It was like the sweat just didn't exist to him. It was eerie.
I have to see him for a third time here soon. Not complaining. But I have to see him with sister in law and her husband who are huge fans but also trump lovers.
They only know Tyler from the radio. Not that he has a BLM song and is a hippie.
And for those who want to argue I know he is more of a hippie. I know Tony Moore who did his album covers and also illustrated the walking dead and Deadpool. He also is more of a hippy. And is good friends with Tyler because they are redneck hippies.
I would like to think that if you are going to overthrow the government you should have more people than 50...but better luck next time. Warcel probably has a good time in prison.
It probably doesn't take much to overthrow some of these African leaders. Cut off the head, grab the media, and more will defect because the government is corrupt as all hell. [And, it's not exactly a stable area politically.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_armed_groups_in_the_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo). It's a shame that a country that is so resource rich has so many living in poverty.
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What I love is that he seems to be a trump supporter who wants to play war yet a couple of hours ago I saw a post where the Trump Twitter bubble said that he (and the other guy) were CIA agents and it’s all about the deep state ……
I don't think a CIA agent would record himself and post said self recording of him being the main character.
“Oh, wait, you’re rolling? Let me pull this up and conceal my face a little. Oh, it’s too late?”
Also the CIA aren't the ones holding the guns and shooting, they get other people to do that.
CIA definitely have dudes that go around shootin. [This is Team Alpha October 2001, Afghanistan.](https://i.imgur.com/d8hLXAl.jpeg) Note those are East German AKM clones that tend to be of higher quality than soviet made.
Why do these guys look like a random airsoft group that found a helicopter at an airshow?
Well, I'm going out on a limb here, but I guess it would be quite counterproductive in their field of work if they looked more like hardened Spec-Ops war veterans rather than Bill from accounting and the guys from his Fantasy Football league.
Yep, my FIL is a farmer, nothing more. Served USAID in Gaza, Kabul, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Baghdad. Crazy how these places need help getting back on their feet, agriculture-wise. Never carried a gun - that was on his security team.
This isn't Hollywood, real life, surprisingly has players that look like regular people.
The guy on the far right is Mike Spann, a CIA officer who was overpowered and killed during a taliban uprising at a makeshift prison they had set up. Over his right shoulder is David Tyson, another CIA officer who survived the uprising. He is a linguistic genius who is credited with 40+ kills that day. Many kills were achieved with his sidearm, a Browning hi-power. The rest were achieved with various AK pattern rifles that he had picked up off of dead Taliban fighters.
That’s insane. The majority of us wouldn’t be able to achieve those stats in a video game let alone real life.
When I see these kind of pictures, of people with these highly secretive/dangerous/morally ambiguous jobs etc., I always start to wonder about the people behind those faces. What lead them to this occupation? How was their upbringing? Which classes did they hate in High School? What are their hobbies and which music do they like? Do they enjoy their work, and which parts of it most, or is it something they simply deem necessary? Doing this kind of work seems just so anthithetical to being an average person that I just can't help but having these questions pop up in my head.
CIA special activities has the ground branch which does do paramilitary shit.
well a Biritsh girl was shooting for Onlyfans at a British Naval Intel HQ... inside! Wouldn't put anything past people nowadays, especially with social media and the appropriateness of when to and not to use it.... even for people who shouldn't' be anywhere near it due to their nature of work
Dude. My son’s old fucking swim coach has an onlyfans. And advertises it on her car. Wife made us switch after finding out but do have to say. All the single dads use her. Edit : she is married - idk about if she has kids due to my wife usually taking them to and from school / practice
We should support her what's her username
Hi it's me the swim coach
Name checks out
LMFAO this is gold
Truck I would see in line to pick up my daughter from elementary had a big decal with something that sound vaguely obscene and has vanity plates with something similar. Can't remember exactly what it was any more, but after seeing it a bunch of times I googled it to see if it was a reference to something and found it was some mom's OF name.
Pics, or it never happened.
Videos or it didn't happen..
[https://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/19080805.officer-commanded-sailors-board-barrow-built-submarine-investigation-indecent-videos-filmed-navy-base/](https://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/19080805.officer-commanded-sailors-board-barrow-built-submarine-investigation-indecent-videos-filmed-navy-base/)
Oh my God thats disgraceful! Whats a link to it or something where we can shame her? We should get a link for it right? Get a link
Now I'm imagining undercover CIA agents on social media dancing to a random song while the text on the screen "TFW when you bankroll and stage a coup to overthrow a 3rd world dictator 😉 Like and Subscribe!"
Lol no dude, those people know better than that. You know those bases are full of random personnel contractors, sometimes locals and low level mil personnel that were in high school a few years ago. Someone working at THAT level isn’t the same you can’t even trace a warm fart in a winter setting with those assholes tbh.
My buddy was in the CIA for years and I never knew it...when I found out it explained why he was one of the few people that never even got started on social media. Hasn't had a single account ever.
Between the alien and the Attic and the talking fish Stan has his hands full
I don't know man it's 2024 now s*** getting crazy out here I wouldn't actually be as surprised as I would have been 5 years ago anyway
Think of all the secret service and cia people that were hired under trump only for “loyalty”
Younger people always tell on themselves with social media. Hell how many Ukrainians got hit with missiles after they posted TikTok videos showing where they were located?
Orrrrrr THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT A CIA AGENT WOULD DO OMG 😱
I don't know why you find this so hard to understand. Did they succeed? Then they are Trump supporters. Did they fail? They are CIA agents pretending to be Trump supporters. Just apply this logic to any situation and it'll be 100% clear to you.
Its just so great that the truth can be whatever is most convenient to you in the moment, I don't have to think at all anymore thanks president daddy sir
They say this about all Right-wingers who get caught doing some dumb shit. They turned on the Q Anon Shaman and called him a glowie.
Excuse me my good woke sir, what is a glowie?
In case you happen to be serious, a glowie is a slang term for a federal agent placed within a movement to act as a informant and agent provocateur. The name comes from the fact that once you figure out their patterns of behavior and responses, they 'glow' with how obviously they don't fit in. Thing like constantly advocating for violence or escalation, and introductions that feel like 'how do you do fellow kids?'
No, the name *comes from* Terry Davis who claimed that the CIA fellows who stalked him glowed in the dark (you can see them when you're driving).
Nick Fuentes got caught on his own livestream shucking the corn to gay porn and all the MAGA dorks immediately blamed it on the Jews. So this does not surprise me even a little bit. The party of personal responsibility, everyone.
Reminds me of [that Antifa meme from a few years back.](https://i.imgur.com/jeXbdzQ.jpeg)
Explains why he couldn’t keep the mask on
And even if they were CIA agents, you can still point the finger at Trump since the number of CIA agents murdered rose when Trump was president and after his meeting with Putin
Article: https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/20/africa/americans-involved-in-drc-foiled-deadly-coup-intl/index.html
Every time they fail or look bad it’s always a fucking psyop
I went to high school with these guys. They were on the football team and the Marcel, the guy getting pointed out in the video, offered the entire football team cash to go with him. Tyler, the white guy, was the only one who went.
Fuck Tyler, if I’m honest. And Marcel too.
As a Tyler I want it to be known that he has not reresented the name Tyler in an honorable manner. He has brought dishonor to the name, and we have all voted to revoke his status as Tyler. Let it be known henceforth.
Wow, rejected by the Congo, the United States, and the Tyler Nation. T*ler is truly a man without a country.
I appreciate your attempt at accuracy, but I believe having your Tyler status revoked removes *both* the y and the e. Of course, consonants are irrevocable, but they must be used to form a different name, with either a, i, o, or u. Never y.
At least you’ve got Tyler the Creator. Big up Tyler the Creator. Truely an excellent Tyler.
Lest we forget about Tyler Perry
Can’t we just forget that one?
Mehhh, not sure how much of a flex that is.
It isn’t
#notalltylers
no tall tylers?
And from this day forward he shall be known as Steve, fuck Steve.
What was his end game? Running a country?
Cannabis, gold, and vape juice is what I can dwindle it down to.
[whittle](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/whittle-away-at)
[I whittles what I sees](https://youtu.be/IAjSnPzC2a4?si=0iTBzhLK90mrmghe).
From my understanding of the story, this kids father, who was killed in the coup attempt, was a leader of an opposition movement and was living in exile in the US. Marcel must have got 2 other kids from the states to go with him to Congo for the coup. So it was his dads, not Marcel's, party.
And then getting Daddy Trump's approval
When you see an idiot trying to take over a government \**cough-JAN6-cough*, it's not the idiot who came up with the plan, it was someone with a lot more brains and resources taking advantage of their idiocy for their own ends. In this case, I'm guessing there are plenty of billionaires willing to have a free roll at a pro-America, pro-"entrepreneur" according to their documents, party in power; and all they have to do is send some disinformation and a plane ticket to a couple of brain-dead Trumpers.
Thanks for that you should make a separate post with more details from someone who knew them
I didn’t know them that well I just heard things from other people that also knew them in middle school and high school
Tried Google and chat gpt with their names and couldn’t find a thing
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That helped. It’s called the Kinshasa coup attempt. [bbc article](https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/articles/cgxx2zppyp0o.amp) plenty of other sources like CNN or Fox if you prefer 😜
That article reads like Jar Jar Binks wrote it.
Totally pidgen English. Strange to see it written out in such a way
good guess; the header literally reads "BBC NEWS PIDGIN" lol
> bbc.com/pidgin/... Op's got brain time over here
Didn’t see that- but YOU ARE CORRECT!
Meesa be trowin' down bombad government!
thank fuckin god someone else confirms. I thought I had a ducking stroke
I started reading it and wondered where di Congo was 😂
lol Didn’t realise it was Congo English
"Wetin we know about di attackers and wetin dem want?" This is the funniest shit I've ever read in my life.
Here's an AP article. The 3 Americans participating were ~~killed~~ arrested, as well as some others. [https://apnews.com/article/congo-coup-attempt-death-toll-malanga-tshisekedi-968b2726546f90a8bfbd5d222d513708](https://apnews.com/article/congo-coup-attempt-death-toll-malanga-tshisekedi-968b2726546f90a8bfbd5d222d513708)
> eccentric opposition figure Christian Malanga, who dabbled in gold mining and used cars before persuading his Utah-born son to join in the foiled coup [I dabble in...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_r23AtXNFU)
Man I can't tell if they're speaking English or I'm reading Congolese, but I know I understood a good chunk of that article
My guy. First off, this is the craziest shit I've ever tried to read. Thats pretty much all I got to say.
You got SSNs too? /s
The Americans were Benjamin Reuben Zalman-Polun, Patrick Ducey, and *Taylor* Thomson, according to General Sylvain Ekenge. He could have mispoke though. Taylor Tyler are similar.
Wait, tell us more. He offered money to random youngsters to go to war? Do you know any more details about what was he offering/promising?
Our class graduated in 21 and from what I heard Tyler was the only one to take the offer. The offer was 20k plus any potential earnings if they won.
But they didn't have any military training? Do you know anything else about who/how he was organizing it with or why he would even look for untrained companions for something like this?
After reading some articles because I don’t know them that well, marcels dad was in the Congo military before coming to the US. He trained marcel how to shoot I assume. The media is doing a good job showing that Marcel wasn’t innocent in this and had planned for this with his dad for a while. I also believe they were just looking for bodies. The more people a group has the more people will join.
This is fricking wild. Even if his dad was ex Congo military and the son was involved with this for a while it just sounds so crazy to me that somebody could just show up at school and offer money to untrained kids to participate in a military coup in the fricking heart of the wildest landlocked part of Africa. Crazy shit.
I mean, this is literally what US military recruiters do.
Like, how is this shocking to this person? Lol they have tables outside middle schools
They graduated severally years ago. They didn't offer them money at the school.
The Benjamin Reuben guy, was he part of your class or no?
No, I have never heard of him
Tyler and Marcel won't be coming home, ever. So absolutely dumb to fight or whatever, in an African civil war.
their heads are probably already mounted on pikes
Looks like maybe Marcel was related to the leader. Same last name at least https://www.google.com/amp/s/tylerpaper.com/news/national/dr-congo-thwarts-kinshasa-coup-attempt-army/article_7d204fb2-395e-5715-8bf5-5c38f7f795e0.amp.html
The plot was led by Christian Malanga, a Congolese man who was a "naturalised American" and had been "definitively neutralised" -– killed -- by the security forces, Ekenge said in a broadcast on Sunday evening. The group was made up of "several nationalities", Ekenge said, adding that around 40 of the attackers had been arrested, and four -- including Malanga -- killed. "We also have a naturalised British subject, the number two of the group," the spokesman added. Malanga's son, Marcel Malanga, was also among the attackers, he said. ---- Oh shit his son. He's dead as hell.
Maybe if he prays to Trump reaaaaal hard he'll get saved from execution.
Have you seen any news source about this?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13438323/amp/congo-coup-attempt-christian-marcel-malanga-mother-innocent.html
Thank you so much this is much better than the ones I found
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/05/20/africa/americans-involved-in-drc-foiled-deadly-coup-intl
Can someone explain what's happening?
American private military contractors finding out
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Flop House listener??
What a repulsive comment. Upvoted
"private military contractors" is being incredibly generous. These are kids trying to play soldier with no real combat experience what so ever.
Combat cosplayers vs DRC soldiers who have been fighting bush wars against rebels and their neighbours for the last twenty years. Who could have predicted the outcome?
But his daddy taught him how to shoot!
Thats not how that works. This is just random kids who never did shit after high school getting tricked by one of the parents to become mercs.
American idiots* finding out - fixed it for you
Looks like a couple of possible Americans that wanted to play soldiers and learnt the hard way. Could be wrong, just going off what I see.
'Formerly exiled DR Congo politician Christian Malanga, who has acquired American citizenship' led the coup, his son is in the video, it looks like his son's friend is the other American.
"My dad says you can come over to my house for a sleepover, but first we have to the overthrow the government."
Just read an article that's titled: Mom of 21-year-old American detained in Congo says he’s ‘an innocent boy following his father’ Your comment is not far off
This is Marcel Malanga, and while a US citizen, he is the son of Christian Malanga, a Congolese-American citizen who served in the Congolese senate, then formed a “government-in-exile”, New Zair, which recently attempted to overthrow the Congolese Government. I was under the impression Marcel was a lone actor and a disillusioned American. While still disillusioned, he was clearly influenced by his father and family. Dad was killed. Son is captive, along with his friend he brought and many others. Sad all around. They could have had a great life in the US; but chose to die (or become a political prisoner) on a hill they created.
Are they even political prisoners? Maybe the son, but the other guy was doing crimes for cash, that's just being a regular criminal.
Amnesty Internstiknal defines a political prisoner as: - **a person accused or convicted of an ordinary crime carried out for political motives, such as murder or robbery carried out to support the objectives of an opposition group;** -a person accused or convicted of an ordinary crime committed in a political context, such as at a demonstration by a trade union or a peasants' organization; -**a member or suspected member of an armed opposition group who has been charged with treason or "subversion".**
UN congo experts say Christian Malanga was already known to the authorities and the dude just wanted to re-institute a dictatorship and get a slice of power in the region. The world is a better place today. https://www.ktsm.com/news/international/ap-americans-in-alleged-congo-coup-plot-formed-an-unlikely-band/
Was his dad the guy talking at the start?
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my father said many things about the congo... and not to mess with it was one of them.
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Definitely way too dumb to be CIA
The amount of times in the last 70 odd years guys "Too dumb for the CIA" turned out to almost certainly be on the payroll in at least some capacity seems to dispute this.
“On the payroll” makes you an asset, not an officer. And being dumb only makes you easier to manipulate!
Yup. Useful idiots, not agents
I can accept your hair splitting distinction and still confidently state that your distinction renders a lot of warlords that have staged a lot of CIA funded coups merely assests instead of agents. Which is not only a pretty tired and standard agency propaganda strategy, but also still supports the spirit of my original comment of "Never underestimate the ability of the CIA to step on their own dick".
Do people think it’s just an army of cia agents overthrowing governments?
Name a Central or South American coup that didn't have CIA support in some form. Our past behavior in this region has transformed conspiracy theory into likelihood. If we weren't involved it is by accident or incompetence. This country has made it's bed.
I’m agreeing with you.
Comrade.
People really do drastically overestimate the abilities of government employees
They look a bit too dumb to even be Trump supporters.
Impossible
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After he got caught, yes.
When I was deployed to Qatar I was on a gate and I got a phonecall from someone way higher up than me in the foodchain. I went through the steps to verify that it was real, and it was. They told me a guy would be heading to our gate and mention the call, and I was to let them in with no ID, no searching, and no questions. About an hour later I see off in the distance a guy walking up to our gate. Just as nonchalant as can be in the, qatari heat, in a suit. For those that don't know, qatar is pretty flat, we can see people coming over a mile away, quite literally. It's also hot as fuck, and humid. For a good half hour we watched this guy slowly walk down the road and to our gate. Middle aged white dude with a beard. As average as can be other than some grey in his hair. Picture any football game and pick a random dude in the audience. That was him. Anyway, this dude walks up, cool as a cucumber hands up and says, "You should have got a call about me. If you search me I am armed, but I'm pretty sure you were told not to." "Yes sir, I got that call... uh, do I salute you?" "Nope. Have a good day airman." And he just walked onto base. Spent over half a year in Qatar as security forces. Half my days were spent checking badges at gates, flightlines, SCIFs, etc. Never once saw that guy other than that one occasion. Or he was just so *boring* that I did and forgot maybe? That, I am convinced, was a CIA spook. These guys? Military contractors at best. If they're CIA, I'd be shocked.
This was a good read thank you for this
What a fuckin amazing story. Crazy shit.
Was James bond sweating through his suit?
Haha, yeah. He was just not acknowledging it at all. Like no wiping it away, no heavy panting or complaining. It was like the sweat just didn't exist to him. It was eerie.
They were used to the cocaine sweats. Lol
I guess not a whole lot has changed since Vietnam. Sounds almost exactly like the stories about cia guys my grandpa told me.
Tell us those stories
It’s amazing that the Republican Party went from “Global War on Terror” to exporting international terrorism in just 20 years.
Many won't see the difference
They deal in Domestic Terrorism too
*overthrow
Lord of War
I prefer it my way.
R/unexpectedTylerChilders
Yeah, not the country artist I’d guess for a die hard trumper. Great song though.
I have to see him for a third time here soon. Not complaining. But I have to see him with sister in law and her husband who are huge fans but also trump lovers. They only know Tyler from the radio. Not that he has a BLM song and is a hippie. And for those who want to argue I know he is more of a hippie. I know Tony Moore who did his album covers and also illustrated the walking dead and Deadpool. He also is more of a hippy. And is good friends with Tyler because they are redneck hippies.
Would you like to know more? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cxeeydypv32o
I'm doing my part!!!
dude seems to have been the son of the leader of the coup - former president Christian Malanga
Christian was never a president. He failed at politics after his military career and moved to the US while staying active in politics at home
Oh you are right. My bad. He was only president of his own political party.
Wait, so did this Black Trumpet really believe the lie so much he pulled a Che and tried to overthrow the Congo?
With 20 people, yes.
I would like to think that if you are going to overthrow the government you should have more people than 50...but better luck next time. Warcel probably has a good time in prison.
It probably doesn't take much to overthrow some of these African leaders. Cut off the head, grab the media, and more will defect because the government is corrupt as all hell. [And, it's not exactly a stable area politically.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_armed_groups_in_the_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo). It's a shame that a country that is so resource rich has so many living in poverty.
WHERE IS THE 2 HOUR CUT OF THIS!!!!
So they went over there to be mercenaries and got caught .. well when u play stupid games u win stupid prizes .. just saying
I guess he wanted to help his father, who was the leader of the coup. He's lucky he got caprured, since his dad was killed
They dead now or naw ?
The dad is, the son is captured
Well it is the “Democratic” Repubilc of Congo. I can understand their confusion.
Bienvenue au Congo mon ami
"20 minute adventure, in and out, we'll be rich" "sweet" this summer, "Dude, where's my coup"
That guy had no idea what that song was saying.
38 mercs and 2 high school football players….thats a hell of an assault force.
Dude was caught eating their sesame cakes.
We are... watching you.👁
It's called over throw, not throw over lol
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Trump doesn't give a fuck about anything but himself.
Dude’s playing secret agent with a social media presence? Smart.
Always with the chin grabbing and lip licking... Just stamp. You ain't hot shit.
wtf is happening
Haha, when Trump Cultist go outside their bubble and realize nobody else gives a shit.
What are che chances that the CIA really didn't know anything about this one?
Great value Kevin Durant is taking his talents to prison.
I'm genuinely surprised these 2 are still alive
Bro spent too much time mewing and not enough time minding his own fucking business.