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2 North Texas men indicted in alleged plot to invade Haitian island, kill all men, enslave women and children (www.cbsnews.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/texas@lemmy.world
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Two North Texas men are facing charges after allegedly plotting to invade an island off Haiti, kill all the men and turn the women and children into their sex slaves, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

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[–] 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Weisenburg and Thomas had plans to purchase a sailboat, firearms and ammunition as well as recruit homeless people from Washington, D.C. to serve as their "mercenary force" as they invaded the Island of Gonave and staged a coup d'etat.

Weirdly specific that they wanted to go from North Texas to DC to re ruit mercenaries to invade Haiti...

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Or that they thought they'd recruit enough to take over an island of 87,077 people

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    I was going to lookup the population and expected it to be like 100-200 people but 87k people???? I would love to see what kind of operational plans they had to pull that off. What size occupying force would even be needed? Probably at least 1-2 thousand mercenaries??? One sailboat ain’t fitting that size group.

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    • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    Bro.

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    [–] 6 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

    Two?!

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Apparently they were gonna try to recruit an army of homeless people in D.C.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Seems optimistic

    Population - 87,077 (2015) - Wikipedia

    Even a tenth of that, and half of those being male and half of those adults. You need a lot of men and firepower to murder 2k people, people with all the motivation in the world to prevent you from doing so

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    • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    Excuse me?

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    [–] 4 points 11 months ago*

    I had "Army of DC Homeless invade Dominican Republic" on my 2025 Bingo card. Swing and a miss.

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    [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    so many levels of WTF

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    [–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Why DC homeless? Texas has tons of homeless people?

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