What's up with the guy from DC who got caught trying to help a coup in the Congo?

[Anonymous]

This story is so weird:

One of the three Americans involved in a disastrous attempted Congo coup is a married father-of-three from Washington DC with a drug trafficking conviction.

Benjamin Zalman-Polun, 36, was one of three American citizens seen in the west African nation on Sunday before the coup's apparent leader Christian Malanga was shot dead.

Malanga's American son Marcel and another unidentified American man were captured and paraded around after the failed coup. Zalman-Polun's passport was gleefully displayed by the victorious troops.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13438933/American-detained-failed-Congo-coup-former-DC-drug-dealer-married-father-three-based-South-Africa-ran-gold-mining-e-cig-business-slain-mission-leader.html

[Anonymous]

Truly bizarre.

[Anonymous]

State department passport too?

[Anonymous]

I’m more interested in his wife. Going all in on an obvious loser.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m more interested in his wife. Going all in on an obvious loser.

Blaming victims, now?

There are many of us with spouses who developed serious personality problems or judgment failures, yet who presented very well for years before and after marriage. In the course of decades of life, things can definitely change for the worse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m more interested in his wife. Going all in on an obvious loser.

Blaming victims, now?

There are many of us with spouses who developed serious personality problems or judgment failures, yet who presented very well for years before and after marriage. In the course of decades of life, things can definitely change for the worse.

When was she a victim? This woman was enjoying her home on the dolphin coast of South Africa raising her home schooled kid and feeding them from an upscale organic farm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m more interested in his wife. Going all in on an obvious loser.

Blaming victims, now?

There are many of us with spouses who developed serious personality problems or judgment failures, yet who presented very well for years before and after marriage. In the course of decades of life, things can definitely change for the worse.

When was she a victim? This woman was enjoying her home on the dolphin coast of South Africa raising her home schooled kid and feeding them from an upscale organic farm.

If your husband ran off to implement a failed coup in another country, and your personal, cushy, life was splashed on the internet, I'm sure you'd consider yourself a victim, PP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m more interested in his wife. Going all in on an obvious loser.

Blaming victims, now?

There are many of us with spouses who developed serious personality problems or judgment failures, yet who presented very well for years before and after marriage. In the course of decades of life, things can definitely change for the worse.

When was she a victim? This woman was enjoying her home on the dolphin coast of South Africa raising her home schooled kid and feeding them from an upscale organic farm.

If your husband ran off to implement a failed coup in another country, and your personal, cushy, life was splashed on the internet, I'm sure you'd consider yourself a victim, PP.

She may consider herself a victim because she’s obviously been living in some weird bubble. But how is she actually a victim? Wife to criminal who enjoyed the lifestyle doesn’t seem like it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:State department passport too?

Was it a black cover passport? I only saw the photo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m more interested in his wife. Going all in on an obvious loser.

Man commits crime, internet poster searches several countries away to find a woman to blame.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:State department passport too?

Are you reacting to the bottom right where it says "US Dept of State"? I think that's standard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m more interested in his wife. Going all in on an obvious loser.

Man commits crime, internet poster searches several countries away to find a woman to blame.

Person posts on internet to attack other people without bothering to read the article is definitely a thing that’s never going to go away.

[Anonymous]

NOC

[Anonymous]

If he's from DC, can we assume this is where his remains will be mailed?

[Anonymous]

The spouses of these people don’t even know the extent of their work activities. They are not allowed to tell them much at all about what they do at work.