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On 7th March 2004, former SAS soldier and mercenary Simon Mann prepared to take off from Harare International Airport with an aeroplane full of heavy weaponry and guns for hire. Their destination: the former Spanish colony of Equatorial Guinea. Their mission: to remove one of the most brutal dictators in Africa in a privately organised coup d'etat. The plot had the tacit approval of Western intelligence agencies and, according to Mann, the backing of a European government. Simon Mann had personally planned, overseen and won two wars in Angola and Sierra Leone. Everything should have gone right. Why, then, did it go so wrong? When Simon was released from five years' incarceration in two of Africa's toughest prisons, he made worldwide headlines. Since then, he has spoken to nobody about his experiences. Now, he is telling everything, including: * His belief that the CIA deliberately compromised the coup to court favour with Equatorial Guinea's President Obiang, in return for access to the country's vast oil resources.* How the British government approached Simon in the months preceeding the Iraq war, asking him to suggest ways in which a justified invasion of Iraq could be engineered. * The real story behind the involvement of Mark Thatcher in the coup plot * Simon will also tell of his pain when he had to tell his wife, Amanda, who gave birth to their fourth child while he was incarcerated, that he believed he would never be freed.Product Identifiers
PublisherJohn Blake Publishing LTD
ISBN-139781843584032
eBay Product ID (ePID)109260049
Product Key Features
Book TitleCry Havoc
Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2011
TopicGovernment
GenreBiographies & True Stories
TypeTextbook
AuthorSimon Mann
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height236 mm
Item Weight658 g
Item Width150 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorSimon Mann
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