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2022-03-24 Government Corruption
NPR update - A Jan. 6 Capitol riot suspect wanted by the FBI was granted refugee status in Belarus
More on this story from yesterday.
[NPR] Evan Neumann is under federal indictment in the U.S. for more than a dozen charges related to last year's Capitol insurrection. But Belarus, a Russian ally and neighbor to Ukraine, has granted him asylum, saying he is under its protection indefinitely.

"I am very grateful, and it is bittersweet," like eating cranberries, Neumann said in a video posted by state media Belta. "So, very happy and very sad at the same time."

Neumann is currently wanted by the FBI on multiple charges of assaulting police officers during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, including using a metal barricade as a battering ram. But he fled the U.S. one month after the insurrection, traveling to Ukraine before winding up in Belarus. And now Belarus, which is aiding Russia's attacks on Ukraine, has granted Neumann refugee status.

He received his new Belarusian identification document from the department of citizenship and migration office in Brest, with reporters looking on. Belarus claims that the U.S. charges against Neumann are politically motivated. He was granted refugee status almost exactly one year after the first criminal complaint was filed against him last March.

Belarusian officials say that when Neumann was in Ukraine, he became suspicious that he was under surveillance. Taking only a map, a rucksack and some belongings, they said, he crossed the border into Belarus in August of 2021, whereupon he was detained by military personnel. After arriving, he immediately asked for protection.

"Belarus is very nice," Neumann said, "and I feel safe in Belarus, especially compared to my compatriots in America."

Asked what he will do now, Neumann replied, "Right now, my plans are to stay in Brest. I have started a life here. Now that I have a document, I would like to travel to Minsk. I have not seen that yet."
Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-24 02:25|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 "Belarus is very nice," Neumann said, "and I feel safe in Belarus, especially compared to my compatriots in America."

That would likely be his....fellow 'FBI compatriots' and stringers in America.

Evan's $1.6m Mill valley, CA. safe house sold nearly a year ago. No information currently available on Evan's former employment, academic history, travel, possible military service, clubs, friends, hobbies, pets, bank, credit cards and history, or family....other than a camera shy brother who knows little or nothing and has declined to share anything.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-24 02:43||   2022-03-24 02:43|| Front Page Top

#2 Almost sounds like a certain "hedge fund manager" who met a demise at MMC.
Posted by DooDahMan 2022-03-24 03:28||   2022-03-24 03:28|| Front Page Top

#3 ANOTHER foreign agitator?
I thought they were all here on Rantburg.
Posted by Skidmark 2022-03-24 07:56||   2022-03-24 07:56|| Front Page Top

#4 /\ Possible "Snark o' The Day"???
Posted by Canuckistan sniper 2022-03-24 12:16||   2022-03-24 12:16|| Front Page Top

#5 I thought they were all here on Rantburg
They all left for Ukraine.
Russian spies ‘infiltrated Ukraine’s international volunteers’ to launch missile attack

Dozens of British volunteer fighters narrowly escaped death after Russia launched the air strike. A source told the Sun: ‘A hundred yards difference you would be looking at hundreds of western casualties. There were so many passports in there — British, Brazilian, Canadian, American, you name it.

‘It was like the Star Wars canteen. There were gun nuts, biker gangs, tough guys, American religious people there to do God’s work, war addicts. One British guy was boasting that he’d killed someone in a bar fight.

‘Another Brit said he was a Royal Marine who wasn’t at liberty to disclose his rank or his unit — that’s a red flag right there. There’s no vetting, there’s no command and control, no chain of command. It’s a complete sh*t show.’

Posted by Otto Grairt3290 2022-03-24 12:25||   2022-03-24 12:25|| Front Page Top

#6 There’s no vetting, there’s no command and control, no chain of command.

Just killing Russians.
Posted by Skidmark 2022-03-24 12:28||   2022-03-24 12:28|| Front Page Top

#7 If you avoided having to soldier, why would you go anywhere near people who play at it?
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-24 12:28||   2022-03-24 12:28|| Front Page Top

#8 Just killing getting blown to bits by Russians FIFY
Posted by Guillibaldo Omomomp9812 2022-03-24 12:35||   2022-03-24 12:35|| Front Page Top

#9 Here's a tough guy, surprised to find that "it's not like Iraq or Afghanistan!"

"...all of a sudden the gates of hell opened up on us. We got very close to getting whacked. I’ve never experienced firepower like that, I don’t think anyone of this generation ever has. Iraq and Afghanistan was totally different. The Russians are a conventional modern army.”

Imagine that: picking on someone your own size.

Next, Rambo gets arrested - by the Ukrainians, on suspicion of being a Russian spy. Then the fun starts:

They were taken to a security service base and interrogated for three hours. Jason said: “My head was slammed down by one of the guards. A different guy came in and I could tell by his kit that he was in an elite unit. He had cable ties and two hoods and I thought ‘S***, this is real’. They kept shouting Russian at me but obviously I said I was English. They whacked me around eight or nine times. I had quite a bad concussion and was bleeding heavily.”

Yeah, shout in English, mate. Just shout louder, that'll make the bloody wogs understand you.

Now we know who the shithead was who let the Russians know where the British mercenary-targets were located. No wonder the Ukrainians thought this idiot was betraying them -- because our genius was betraying their location with his phone:

“They looked at my phone and my messages which was a really scary moment."

🤣🤣🤣




Posted by Otto Grairt3290 2022-03-24 12:52||   2022-03-24 12:52|| Front Page Top

#10 No word from NPR about all the January 6 riot suspects trespassers tourists being held without bail for over a year, without a speedy trial or even any formal charges.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-03-24 12:59||   2022-03-24 12:59|| Front Page Top

#11 ^ We should ask Putin to send a Spetsnaz contingent to liberate the D.C. gulag prisoners
Posted by Otto Grairt3290 2022-03-24 13:02||   2022-03-24 13:02|| Front Page Top

#12 NPR is big on the Jan6 deal. I think they want to have it declared a national holiday.
Posted by jpal 2022-03-24 15:53||   2022-03-24 15:53|| Front Page Top

#13 Imaginethat: picking on someone your own size.
LOL...You're not fighting shepherds in Kandahar anymore
Posted by Slineling Chusong5031 2022-03-24 17:39||   2022-03-24 17:39|| Front Page Top

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