SA denies ' trapping' alleged mercenaries

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by Jean-Jacques Cornish

Lawyers for the South African government on Wednesday denied the state had "set a trap" for 70 suspected mercenaries who were arrested in Zimbabwe over an alleged coup plot in Equatorial Guinea.

The 70 men, who come from South Africa, Namibia and Angola but were all travelling on South African passports, were arrested on arrival at Harare airport on March 7 after taking off in a private plane from South Africa.

Lawyers for the men say they were arrested after South Africa tipped off Zimbabwean authorities. The group has lodged an urgent application in the Pretoria High Court to force South Africa to bring the men back home.

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What does it matter? If they were going to murder people and overthrow a government in a coup, a conspiracy, what does it matter how they were caught? I find it very difficult to believe this coup was not authorized and/or planned by the CIA/DOD.