The definition of terrorist begins to fit one and all alike huh?
In a message dated 3/10/04 2:07:42 PM Central Standard Time,
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> The government of Zimbabwe has accused the secret services of the United
> States, Great Britain and Spain of assisting the presumed mercenaries detained
> in Harare in organising a plot aimed at overthrowing the President of
> Equatorial Guinea, Theodor Obiang Nguema. During a press conference, the Zimbabwean
> interior minister Kembo Mohadi read out a prepared statement claiming that the
> presumed "mercenaries" were "aided by the British secret service, that is
> MI6, .... American Central Intelligence Agency and the Spanish secret service".
> According to Mohadi, the western secret services persuaded "Equatorial
> Guinea's service chiefs not to put up any resistance, but to cooperate with the
> coup plotters", promising them government posts in the post-coup
> administration. The reconstruction provided by the minister is based on information
> obtained from Simon Mann, who was arrested in Harare last Sunday while waiting for
> the Boeing 727, which was blocked and impounded in the international airport
> in the Zimbabwean capital together with its cargo of "military material" and
> 65 presumed mercenaries of different nationalities. Mann, a former member of
> the British Special Air Service (SAS), is thought to be one of the managers of
> Executive Outcomes (EO), the most important mercenary company in the world,
> although it has been inactive for some time, and one of the founders of
> Sandline International, the Private Military Company that grew out of the ashes of
> EO.[LC]
>
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