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Simon Mann, freed dog of war, is demanding justice

Source: The Guardian

Nov 08, 2009

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After more than five years in jail, the British mercenary is seeking vengeance on others he says were part of the failed 'Wonga Coup' – including Mark Thatcher

The statements had a certain similarity. Sir Mark Thatcher and London-based millionaire Ely Calil, two people alleged to have played key roles in the failed coup attempt in an oil-rich West African state, were either "delighted" or "thrilled" to hear that a private jet had taken to the air and was bringing home Simon Mann, the only Briton jailed for the attempted takeover of Equatorial Guinea.

Strange perhaps, because the reporters outside Thatcher's Malaga home and Calil's London mansion must have told them how Mann, as he waited for his flight home from Equatorial Guinea, had just said he wanted nothing more than to see his family – and justice to be brought to bear on Calil, Thatcher and "one or two others".

Mann, 57, had spent five-and-a-half years in two of the world's grimmest jails before his pardon last Tuesday by President Teodoro Obiang, the murderous despot he hoped to overthrow, and now he was

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