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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-17-04 10:55 AM
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President sues UK 'coup plotter'


The government of Equatorial Guinea is to sue a British man jailed last week for his part in an alleged plot to topple the president.
The president and his government had earlier launched civil proceedings in England against Simon Mann, 51, two of his companies and three other men.

The damages case was allowed to proceed on Thursday, when a stay on the action was lifted.

It was delayed in July due to criminal cases against some of the defendants.


Mr Mann was the British leader of a group of 67 alleged mercenaries accused of plotting a coup in Equatorial Guinea.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3663844.stm

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sattahipdeep Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-17-04 11:54 AM
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1. National strike hits South Africa
Friday 17th September 2004

....
Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers have stayed away from
work, in what could be the biggest strike in South Africa’s history

http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=3373
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-17-04 12:33 PM
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2. sattahipdeep did ya see this Chapter 19
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sattahipdeep Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-17-04 06:27 PM
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3. seemslikeadream yes....
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-18-04 12:42 AM
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6. Ghawar, the largest oil field in the world which is allegedly 90% depleted
Furthermore, I am suspicious that the Saudi Royal family favors a UN, US takeover of Saudi Arabia in order that foreign forces can manage the nation should Saudi Arabia plunge into a chaotic and bloody civil war and economic melt down due to the depletion of it's oil reserves, such as Ghawar, the largest oil field in the world which is allegedly 90% depleted.

http://suetheterrorists.net/page6.html
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sattahipdeep Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-18-04 12:03 AM
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4. Scheuer
September 17, 2004

Last week, Scheuer sent the Senate Intelligence
Committee a six-page letter accusing senior
career civil servants of failing to ensure the
"optimal performance" of the U.S. intelligence
community and of missing opportunities to
stop bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorist group and prevent the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-cia-critic,0,3702536.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines


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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-18-04 12:22 AM
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5. The mansions of Mann and Thatcher. The poisoned land of the fighters
Rory Carroll in Pomfret
Saturday September 18, 2004
The Guardian

Some call it South Africa's Siberia, a dumping ground for the unwanted, but those condemned to live in Pomfret lament that some of them were wanted - as warriors.
Marooned on the dust-blown fringe of the Kalahari desert in South Africa's Northern Province, Pomfret is a village of 3,000 outcasts eking out existence in cracked houses with no running water.

Two decades ago they lived in Angola where the apartheid regime enlisted the men into a black foreign legion, 32 Battalion, to fight against liberation movements in Namibia and their native Angola.

They lost the wars and moved to South Africa but here too a liberation movement took power. It allowed the Angolan soldiers and their families to stay at their former army base in Pomfret but regarded them as race traitors.

Stranded on an asbestos-poisoned wasteland 100 miles from the nearest town, this was the price of fighting for the white man.
Earlier this year former members of 32 Battalion repeated that folly for a Briton - and his backers - whose lifestyles are at the opposite end of the wealth spectrum. This time they took orders not from Afrikaner generals but from a British mercenary, Simon Mann, who allegedly dangled a monthly pay cheque of £4,200, a fortune here.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/zimbabwe/article/0,2763,13074...
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