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THE SMART NEWS SOURCE | Feb 10 2010 04:07 | LAST UPDATED Feb 10 2010 04:07 |
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The South African mercenaries jailed for their part in an Equatorial Guinea coup plot have arrived home, a security expert said on Friday. The men were released on Tuesday after being pardoned by President Teodoro Obiang Nguema. "They are back in the country," said Henri Boshoff of the Institute for Security Studies. "I don't know where, and how; I just know they're back." He said the men were probably flown in on Thursday night, and one could "make assumptions" about how this happened. He said the Special Forces League, a private South African organisation that looks after the interests of veterans, had been arranging transport for the men. However, the league was then told by the Department of International Relations that it would organise the repatriation. "Clearly the department made some arrangement," Boshoff said. "It's all very quiet. Nobody knows anything, but they are back." Department spokesperson Nomfanelo Kota told the South African Press Association on Friday afternoon: "I've not been advised that they've arrived."  CONTINUES BELOW An embassy official in Malabo did not want to be quoted and referred further queries to Kota. Briton Simon Mann and South Africans Nick du Toit, George Alerson, Sergio Cardoso and Jose Sundays were convicted in a trial that implicated Mark Thatcher, the son of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, as the financier of a 2004 plot to overthrow the oil-rich Equatorial Guinea and oust long-serving Nguema. Mann has already returned to the United Kingdom. The South African Department of Justice said earlier this week that the men would not face charges relating to their misadventure when they returned. -- Sapa TOPICS IN THIS ARTICLE
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what was the big deal about this. the ANC talk about a coup and about a Government of a Sovereign state as though Equitorial Guinea has a legitimate govenment, when they are just a bunch of gangsters who would have been replaced with a new bunch.
Sydney Kaye on November 6, 2009, 5:49 pm
Yeah all the work was done by the Brits. They paid a $200,000 US. Bribe. Once paid they were all shot out the country. So much for the propaganda put out by the ANC mouth piece, SABC. If yoy do belive me the see UK press for best details.
Hugh Robinson on November 6, 2009, 6:38 pm
Good words Sydney, America hails your wisdom. Here we only need to invoke words like yours to make it natural and our duty to invade countries and give them new names - and South Africa (or perhaps its mercenaries)should have the same right; after all we, unlike Equitorial Guinea, have earned the recognition as a sovereign state and a legitimate government. So we can hunt those who do not fit...
Zolani Ngwane on November 6, 2009, 7:11 pm
I read the British press daily & can find no reference to a $200,00 bribe by the Brits.
Perhaps Hugh Robinson can be e bit more exact than " If yoy do belive me the see UK press for best details."
R Anderson on November 6, 2009, 8:24 pm
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