Last Updated on May 30, 2024
PINEHURST, NORTH CAROLINA — Just weeks before the PGA’s U.S. Open is set to tee off at Pinehurst’s famed Number Two course, the shooting by a U.S. Army Special Forces Colonel of a Chechen foreign national illegally present in the United States has the community near the base formerly known as Fort Bragg again looking for questions.
Earlier this month, a Special Forces Colonel shot and killed a Chechen man who claimed to work for a power company in Carthage, North Carolina. There is no evidence to support the claim the Chechen worked for any power company.
The mysterious shooting has again stirred questions of an open investigation into the still unsolved week-long, county-wide power outage the same community saw during December of 2022.
UNCONVENTIONAL WARFARE EXERCISES
This story first developed just down the road from operations being carried out by Army Special Forces and Green Beret soldiers who were in the middle of doing UNCONVENTIONAL WARFARE (UW) exercises, known colloquially as UW.
UW operations being carried out in and around the Sandhills of North Carolina is a normal occurrence in the four counties immediately surrounding Bragg and even the THIRTY counties surrounding the base formerly known as Bragg.
Some of the soldiers thought the shooting involving the Special Forces Colonel was part of the Unconventional Warfare exercise.
Army sources tell National File the Carthage operation had to be a side mission they weren’t briefed on, which does happen due to the ever-changing scenarios based upon what happens in Pineland — the fictional piece of dirt the exercise takes place on.
These UW trainings put the whole package together for troops in training — the scenarios serve as a test for candidates, and stretch across nearly 30 counties in North Carolina from the mountains to ocean. And they are used as the final field test for soldiers to become Green Berets.
The more than 200 candidates work with “guerrilla fighters” in the unconventional warfare exercise.
The soldiers learn small unit tactics, and hone their job-specific training. They put all of this experience together in the immersive environment the army calls ‘Pineland’,” which, if anyone knows anything about North Carolina’s Sand Hills, makes sense.
Pineland, so-called by the Army brass, is a fictional wargame nation based in the Sandhills, a region of North Carolina known for its hilly, beach like terrain, and covered with pine trees.
Unconventional Warfare scenarios are used to test Green Beret Candidates, who must use their training to free the people of ‘Pineland’ from the enemy. More than 1,500 civilians across the state volunteer their time to play the enemy.
And this Unconventional Warfare scenario is usually the first time candidates from across the Special Forces specialties – medical, engineer, weapons, communications, and officers – join to form a single Operational Detachment.
In the case of the shooting in Carthage was not a UW exercise. This was very real.
THE SHOOTING
What follows is an account of the events that unfolded near Carthage on May 3rd, that led to the killing of the Chechen man allegedly posing as a utilities worker.
On May 3rd, after 8:00 PM, two Chechen foreign nationals were staking out a Special Forces Colonel’s home, according to National File’s sources.
The Chechens were taking photos of the Colonel’s children using a telephoto lens around 8:00 on a Friday night.
The Colonel confronted one of the Chechen men, who spoke very little English. In broken English the Chechen told the Colonel they were from the power company and laying in fiber optic wire.
The colonel noticed that the Chechens had no uniform, and further noticed they had no fiber optic wire in their possession.
The Special Forces Colonel also noticed the cell phone of the man, and specifically noticed that everything on the phone was in the Russian language, which is the language spoken by Chechen
The Chechen saw that the colonel recognized that the phone was entirely Russian and reportedly attacked the Colonel, attempting to strangle the American.
Fortunately, the Special Forces Colonel was carrying his sidearm, and shot the Chechen.
The other Russian escaped, driving away in a rental car that was reportedly rented somewhere in the Midwest.
The Colonel called the Moore County Sheriff’s office, who then pursued the lone escaping Chechen. They found him and arrested him. Moore County Sheriffs reportedly recovered cell phones in the car, which were all in Russian.
According to our sources, the Chechen prisoner refuses to talk. The next day, 20 Russians who had been staying in a hotel in Carthage, which is a small town in Moore County, all quickly left. They reportedly abandoned a conex (a shipping container) full of equipment.
The Sheriff is now trying to obtain a warrant to open the conex.
SPEIAL FORCES OPERATIONAL ANALYSIS OF CHECHEN SLEEPER CELL
What follows is an analysis of the Chechen Sleeper Cell Operation based on multiple conversations with SF community soldiers, both past and present.
The entire Chechen episode calls to mind another recent incident in Moore County — the December 2022 attack on two Moore County substations which authorities still have not solved.
Similar to the 2022 power outage, this botched operation ended up being an Operational test on response.
Lee, Moore, Cumberland, Hoke counties are all heavily populated by military personnel.
The region boasts a huge presence of trained military servicemen around the Fort Bragg area.
Tests on infrastructure are not uncommon in such regions. So the execution of two suspicious operations within the span of eighteen months raises several key questions.
Are there Foreign Intelligence operations being run in and around the Bragg community?
Of course there are.
In this case, there was a CHECHEN Cell operating in Bragg’s back yard that, evidently, no one knew about.
As far as we know, this Chechen sleeper cell was not on any one’s radar.
If the Chechens were here running an operation — and it looks like there is no disputing that they were — they dropped the ball, thankfully.
Luckily for the Colonel and his family, the Chechens didn’t get to take their operation to GREEN.
What might a green light have looked like for such an operation?
It could easily have looked like the family of a high ranking Army officer or his family being abducted and held hostage, or even worse.
For starters, we’re talking about a complete military, intelligence, and law enforcement failure.
The United States Department of Defense is overly concerned about DEI and so they can’t be bothered to do their jobs.
Here we have a terror cell operating in our back yard no one knew anything about. And if they did, they didn’t say anything.
This was a screw up
Chechens are good at what they do in Chechnya and Afghanistan. But they are not skilled in running operations in Pinehurst. Where they stick out like a sore thumb.
Here, they got caught. Their Training sucks. Hopefully Biden admin does right thing and puts away this Chechen or puts him to death .
But the bottom line is that this Chechen cell has moved Operational — and are now targeting individuals.
Who is running the Chechens? In all likelihood this is not a Russian operation. The Russians hate the Chechens and the Chechens hate the Russians.
They’re ramping up. So, is this a setback for the Chechens? Or will they keep going?
It’s important to note the timeline. There have been about eighteen months between this May 2024 surveillance and shooting event and the 2022 Moore County power outage.
So, who’s running the Chechens? According to our sources, it’s not accurate to call them “Russians.” The likeliest answer is the Chinese.
For instance, the remaining two dozen Chechens were ordered to scatter. They did not execute that order of their own volition. The likeliest scenario is that a sovereign state actor is using the Chechens for the simple reason that they’re expendable.
All of this only leads to further questions.
Are federal authorities chasing the Chechens?
One of our sources pointes to the Chechen proclivity to engage in terrorism.
“Feed the Chechens a jihad sandwich and they’re like “Hell yeah! Kill Americans?? Hell yeah!”
So was it a Chinese handler running this operation?
Did the Chechens come across the southern border?
And there are the questions of the other electrical sub station incidents over the past several years.
THE POWER COMPANY CONNECTION
The Washington State sub station incident that took place two months after Moore County. The Camp Lejeune sub station incident which took place the month after the Moore County event. Then an Edison substation was attacked in August of 2023. On the heels of Moore County, authorities also nabbed a couple of alleged vandals in Baltimore in early 2023.
Indeed, as a string of attacks on electrical substations unfolded in Oregon and Washington in 2022, the FBI was very busy warning utility companies about the so-called “white supremacist plots to take down the nation’s power grid.”
No matter the cause, it’s clear the DHS is more concerned about white males and a $500 PayPal and Venmo account payments than they are about protecting the homeland.
They are operating on U.S. soil and no one knew about it.
And it took a Special Forces colonel killing a likely terrorist at point blank range to uncover this fact.
Meanwhile, twenty Chechens are in the wind. Which raises many more questions.
Who is executing the search warrants? Who is requiring search warrants in the first place?
Who is keeping the Chechen Conex container closed? Are they protecting the contents? IF so, why?
Are we looking at Chechens potentially putting a colonel and wife and kids on Jihad TV in orange jumpsuits with televised beheadings???
The Chechens will go to ground for a while.
But it doesn’t mean they won’t be back. Chechens hate the Russians. They hate Americans. They hate anyone who’s not Muslim.
The current media take is clearly operating to take heat off of fact that operational cells are here and are borderline operational.
It now seems painfully obvious that the substation hit was the Chechens.
That was a test. They see us as Dogs. This SHOULD have been on someone’s radar, and it wasn’t
That’s why the media are spinning this as a Russian play. To avoid accountability.
This is a developing story. Stay tuned to National File for more on the terrorist threat on U.S. soil.