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Article: Inside story of the 'wonga coup'; Mercenary Simon Mann has been pardoned in Equatorial Guinea, writes Kim Sengupta.(News)

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November 4, 2009
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The "wonga coup", the perfect plot, meticulously planned, audacious and hugely lucrative, the takeover, no less, of a small country with massive oil riches. And the perfect leader for the battle-hardened soldiers of fortune who would make it happen, Simon Mann, Old Etonian, bon viveur and former officer in the SAS. But the operation collapsed even as it got under way, amid recriminations and charges of betrayal, with the plotters scattered across prisons in Africa.

In 2008, after four years of hard captivity Simon Mann made public his account of what really took place in the failed mercenary mission to Equatorial Guinea.

Manacled hand and foot, with his ...

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