2 ex-Green Berets sentenced to 20 years for Venezuela attack

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A Venezuelan court sentences two former U.S. special forces soldiers to 20 years in prison for their part in a failed beach attack aimed at overthrowing President Nicolás Maduro. Venezuela's chief prosecutor said both men confessed to the alleged crimes.

FILE - This May 4, 2020 file photo released by the Venezuelan Miraflores presidential press office shows what Venezuelan authorities identify as the I.D. cards of former U.S. special forces citizen Airan Berry, right, and Luke Denman, left, in Caracas, Venezuela. The two former Green Berets were arrested in May 2020 while participating in a botched raid organized from neighboring Colombia to oust Maduro.

“THEY ADMITTED THEIR RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE FACTS,” Saab wrote, adding that the case will continue for dozens of other defendants. He did not offer details.“Operation Gideon” was launched from makeshift training camps in neighboring Colombia and left at least eight rebel soldiers dead while a total of 66 were jailed. Former Green Beret Jordan Goudreau, who operated a private, Florida-based security firm called Silvercorp USA, claimed responsibility for the failed attack.

The incident also unleashed claims that U.S. backed opposition leader Juan Guaidó had authorized Goudreau through a signed agreement to carry out the attack, executed by two of Guaidó’s former political advisors. The case had lingered for months until former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson met personally in July with Maduro in Caracas to urge they be released so they could return home to the United States.

 

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Calling on trump and Pompeo! The actual wap.

KGB operation 101

Everything Trump touches...let this be a lesson to others he’s not in your corner.

Congrats to the USA on coming up with a dumber, more incompetent, more doomed version of the Bay of Pigs

TGalore2 MAGA morons😄

Bye Felicia

WTH! Every country is now brazenly sending messages to US.

Swift justice

Green Berets? They should have been common watchers.

How is it alleged if they confessed?

georgevanhouts Blackwater; Guns and steel and the germs of love.

Maybe they can have an early release for a hilariously slapstick incompetent coup.

realDonaldTrump should send in the Navy SEALs to bring them home

Good for them stupid trump militia's. I bet you this thought. If The Traitor n Thief some how Steals this election. He will send the military there...

Remember it’s ok to torture (enhanced interrogations) now, and hold them indefinitely... your rules

Do what?

Lmao hell yeah

I see an extraction in their future and fake news (AP) will be none the wiser.

Neat that convicts in Venezuela still get the benefit of their crimes still being 'alleged.'

clarinetwoman2 Well done

They fucked around and found out

Even Bollywood could write a proper coup script that that crappy mess Maduro paid people to do

realDonaldTrump get em our!

Good, now let's start holding Trump and Barr's storm troopers to account. Military service does not make someone a hero.

Stupid, why did they do this? So sad 😥

Who were they working for?

2 fools who played to much COD

Is General Flynn going to rescue them?

Good! They also need to follow the trail back to the US and charge anyone in power who authorized these actions.

Smh

“Former Green Berets Luke Denman and Airan Berry admitted to taking part in the May 4 operation orchestrated by a third ex-U.S. soldier who remains in the United States” the one that orchestrated it has no punishment. how american.

Dumb and Dumber in action. That will teach you to go there again.

play stupid games win stupid prizes

Take note everyone. Venezuela and Maduro is what happens when you let a narcissistic sociopath be in charge.

Well they will have a long time behind bars to realize that Rambo is a thing fiction movies.

realDonaldTrump let’s see you make a deal

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