Anonymous ID: a5e863 March 23, 2024, 7:08 a.m. No.20612907   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>2941

>>20612872

That's a new one to anon:

~2015

 

As BuzzFeed News disclosed earlier this year, the Defense Department’s Special Operations Command (SOCOM) issued a $26.7 million weapons contract in December 2014 to a tiny U.S. company called Purple Shovel. It was part of Obama’s $500 million “Train and Equip” program to aid moderate Syrian rebels. SOCOM oversees the operations of America’s elite and secretive commandos, such as the Navy SEALs and the Army Special Forces. SOCOM and the Pentagon declined to comment for this story.

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Purple Shovel didn’t buy Bulgarian weapons directly. Instead, it initiated a daisy chain of subcontracts. It farmed out the work to a firm called Regulus Global, based in Virginia, which in turn hired a little-known Bulgarian company called Alguns Ltd.

 

Alguns was absolutely central to the taxpayer-funded deal to arm the Syrians, and U.S. military and State Department officials, according to sources and records, knew that the arms were being supplied by Alguns.

 

What is less clear is how many people knew that the head of Alguns, a former scrap metal dealer named Alexander Dimitrov, was in business for years, according to sources and records, with a notorious and colorful Bulgarian organized crime figure named Boyan Petrakiev Borisov, dubbed Barona in Bulgarian, "the Baron."

 

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/aramroston/mobbed-up-arms-dealer-in-american-anti-isis-effort-linked-to

Anonymous ID: a5e863 March 23, 2024, 7:15 a.m. No.20612941   🗄️.is đź”—kun

>>20612907

The documents disclosed that American weapons manufacturers had shipped over $1 billion of weapons through Silk Way Airlines, corporate subcontractors included ″Purple Shovel LLC″ based in Sterling, Virginia, US Department of Defense subcontracting vehicle ″Culmen International LLC″ based in Alexandria, weapons and defense procurement firm ″Chemring Military Products″ based in Perry, Florida.

Anonymous ID: a5e863 March 23, 2024, 7:39 a.m. No.20613039   🗄️.is đź”—kun

>>20613028

“This almost feels like a precursor. How much more experience could you possibly have in domestic terrorism?” said Donna Bucella, a former Justice Department official who, like Garland, was sent to Oklahoma City in the attack’s aftermath to help manage law enforcement’s response. “He’ll be very methodical. I think he’ll demand it’s being done the right way.”