Harvard Fellow Allegedly Tried to Smuggle Millions in Weapons to South Sudan to Aid in a Coup
“Ajak, a former World Bank economist who lives in Maryland, had been in talks to buy arms with what turned out to be undercover federal agents since at least Feb. 20, 2023.”
Do we need to shut down Harvard for a little while until we can figure out what’s going on there?
The College Fix reports:
Harvard fellow charged with attempting to smuggle $4 million in weapons for coup in South Sudan
A Harvard University fellow has been charged with attempting to buy and smuggle millions of dollars in arms to South Sudan to aid in a coup.
Peter Biar Ajak, 40, fled South Sudan with the help of the American government four years ago after claiming that he was a target of the country’s president, the Daily Mail reported. He was granted refugee status, and has been working as a fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
But Ajak, and his confederate Abraham Chol Keech, a naturalized U.S. citizen who lives and works in Utah, are now alleged to have been on a buying spree to send $4 million worth of Stinger missile systems, grenade launchers, sniper rifles, automatic rifles, and ammunition back home to support a violent uprising, according to a federal criminal complaint unsealed March 4.
“Keech and Ajak knew that smuggling the weapons and ammunition out of the country without a license from the U.S. government was illegal and would violate U.S. laws. Nevertheless, in or around February 2024, they caused funds to be transferred to undercover agents through U.S. Company-1 to purchase approximately $4 million worth of munitions and other goods for illegal export to South Sudan,” the complaint reads.
Ajak, a former World Bank economist who lives in Maryland, had been in talks to buy arms with what turned out to be undercover federal agents since at least Feb. 20, 2023. The complaint alleges Ajak and Keech attempted to purchase arms from undercover law enforcement agents “to effect a nondemocratic regime change in South Sudan,” according to the Harvard Crimson.
Ajak, who has a master’s in public administration from the Kennedy School in 2009, was put on administrative leave last Wednesday following the DOJ charges, the student newspaper reported. Ajak and Harvard declined to comment to the Crimson.
“Ajak, a former child soldier, is well-known among the African community in Washington D.C. as an exiled South Sudanese opposition leader and purported peace activist,” the Daily Mail noted.
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Harvard is woke joke.
All the DEI/CRT frauds going to say Peter Biar Ajak is victim of racism?
smh
To be fair at least he didn’t plagiarize Prigozhin making him better than Claudine Gay.
So, where did the money come from? That’s the first thing I think of (not having any myself). I couldn’t see anything given in the original article.
“Peter Biar Ajak, 40, fled South Sudan with the help of the American government four years ago after claiming that he was a target of the country’s president”
My guess? A Cayman Islands bank account.
The guy’s association with Harvard ended in 2009. He’s been at two universities since, and had a lucrative NGO position with UNICEF, plus ran a profitable wrestling association.
Wikipedia says: “Peter Biar Ajak (born November 21, 1983) is a South Sudanese peace activist, scholar, and former political prisoner who was arbitrarily detained in South Sudan from July 2018 to January 2020.[1] Forced to flee a South Sudanese hit squad in July 2020, he now resides in the United States,[2] where he continues to advocate for peace and democracy in South Sudan.”
$4-million in Stinger missiles advocates a hell of a lot of peace.
A lot of people enter the United States who have no business being here.
“The complaint alleges Ajak and Keech attempted to purchase arms from undercover law enforcement agents “to effect a nondemocratic regime change in South Sudan”
That’s the CIA’s job, and they don’t allow competitors.
If the article described the act as a major act of terrorism that would have if carried out killed ten thousand Americans would that have made it seem different?
Whatever you think of acts of war by the United States Government acts of war are illegitimate and illegal when done by private citizens.
acts of war are illegitimate and illegal when done by private citizens
Except in the globalist progressive mindset, this is bullcarp. The banning of “private armies” by the globalists has really hurt the world in terms of freedom, and what has involved the US in a lot more foreign conflicts than it should have been in.
Acts of war against other countries by American citizens has never been legal.
Private armies (real not symbolic ones) in England have been banned since the reign of King Henry VII.
As early as Stuart England Sir Walter Raleigh was executed for waging his private war on Spain when the king changed foreign policy to peace.
Your history is incredibly off if you honestly think banning private citizens from waging war on other countries is a new thing.
Never been legal? Look up “letters of marque and reprisal.” It’s in the Constitution, for heaven’s sake.
henrybowman beat me to the comment.
Who are these dirtbags we’re taking into this country? Who are the dirtbags here facilitating it?
How do you buy a Stingre missile? Don’t you have to deal with the Khashoggi family? I’m goimg to check Amazon. They may have a better price.
I will be the outlier here and say, “So what?” Who says it’s a bad thing for this guy to buy arms so he can go (in his opinion) free his country? Conservative Americans should be applauding that – taking responsibility for that action, instead of demanding the US gov’t spend its citizens’ blood and treasure to do it. All the anti-warmongers/isolationists/not-our-jobbers should be celebrating this guy and crowd-sourcing the funding for him.
Progressivism made these actions illegal, in its desire to consolidate all violence at the state level, in a step to consolidating it at the global level.
Why is it that every time we hear about something like this, the Subject always seems to have found “undercover FBI agents” from whom to try to buy weapons?
I’m certainly not defending this guy, but it seems to me that what likely happened was that someone trusted by Ajak turned out to be a confidential human source (aka FBI snitch). Their snitch was steered to Ajak and encouraged him to support a coup in South Sudan and “just happened” to know some guys who might have access to some weapons.
Discussions and negotiations ensue, at the end of which (after the money is transferred into a specified account, of course) the FBI swoops in, unseals the indictment, makes the arrest, and holds a press conference where they pat themselves on the back for protecting the country. This will be among Chris Wray’s go-to talking points about “The Brave Men and Women of the FBI” in Congressional testimony for the foreseeable future.
What Wray won’t tell of course is that the whole thing was enabled by entrapping people and enticing them to commit acts they probably wouldn’t have thought of without the manipulation of the Feds. We also probably won’t hear that “Company-1” is likely a front company for the FBI or some other 3-letter member of the intelligence community, or where the $4 million came from.