Reported Coup Attempt in DR Congo - allegedly involving Americans

[Jacob]

KINSHASA, May 19 (Reuters) - The leader of an attempted coup on Sunday in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been killed and some 50 people including three American citizens arrested, a spokesman for the Central African country's army told Reuters.

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/democratic-republic-congo-army-says-it-stopped-attempted-coup-2024-05-19/

Rumours swirling about both CIA and Mossad involvement (because that's what people go to immediately, of course).

American citizens being involved is a bit unfortunate, though.

[The Brain]

Sounds like Republicans.

[HVC]

CIA just doesn't plan coups like they used to.

[The Minsky Moment]

Obviously not a CIA sponsored operation.

[Valmy]

Rumours swirling about both CIA and Mossad involvement (because that's what people go to immediately, of course).

Well that's unlikely. It wasn't successful.

[viper37]

Rumours swirling about both CIA and Mossad involvement (because that's what people go to immediately, of course).

Well that's unlikely. It wasn't successful.

Budget cuts have hurt them too.

[Josquius]

I'm honestly not too surprised some sort of westerner would be involved. It seems pretty typical these days for elites and connected folk of African states to have some western passport.

By all means if you know different, that these were old school white guy mercs, then that's fine. But my guess would be these are Congoese-Americans.

Rather than the CIA or Mossad, Rwanda would be a more likely place to point a finger of blame if there is any foreign involvement.

[Jacob]

There's at least one picture of a white dude with a Jewish sounding name and his American passport circulating on social media. Allegedly he is one of the people arrested for the coup.