Simon Mann - Revision history

Tom Griffin: Category:PMC People

2011-01-11T23:25:05Z

Category:PMC People

2010-07-29T12:10:47Z

Wonga Coup

2010-07-29T12:08:21Z

Wonga Coup

2010-07-29T12:07:10Z

Wonga Coup: updated post 2008 events

2010-07-01T12:45:39Z

Gulf War: typos

2010-06-29T17:43:31Z

category:Scots Guards

2010-04-17T12:15:24Z

2010-04-17T02:29:33Z

Old Etonian category

2008-09-02T12:23:39Z

category:SAS

2008-08-28T16:22:24Z

Gulf War

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 ==Wonga Coup==
-Mann was arrested in Zimbabwe in March 2004 during the collapse of the [[Wonga Coup]] plot to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea. After serving time in jail in Harare, he was extradited to Equatorial Guinea in February 2008 and sentenced to 34 years in its capital's notorious Black Beach jail. But after just one year he was granted a pardon on humanitarian grounds in November 2009 by President Teodoro Obiang, who he had originally plotted to overthrow. <ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/02/simon-mann-pardoned-equatorial-guinea Simon Mann pardoned over role in Equatorial Guinea coup plot] </ref>
+Mann was arrested in Zimbabwe in March 2004 during the collapse of the [[Wonga Coup]] plot to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea. After serving time in jail in Harare, he was extradited to Equatorial Guinea in February 2008 and sentenced to 34 years in its capital's notorious Black Beach jail. But after just one year he was granted a pardon on humanitarian grounds in November 2009 by President [[Teodoro Obiang]], who he had originally plotted to overthrow. <ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/02/simon-mann-pardoned-equatorial-guinea Simon Mann pardoned over role in Equatorial Guinea coup plot] </ref>
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 ==Wonga Coup==
-Mann was arrested in Zimbabwe in March 2004 during the collapse of the [[Wonga Coup]] plot to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea. After serving time in jail in Harare, he was extradited to Equatorial Guinea in February 2008 and sentenced to 34 years in its capital's notorious Black Beach jail. But after just one year he was granted a pardon on humanitarian grounds in November 2009 by President Teodoro Obiang, who he had originally plotted to overthrow. <ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/02/simon-mann-pardoned-equatorial-guinea Simon Mann pardoned over role in Equatorial Guinea coup plot] <ref/>
+Mann was arrested in Zimbabwe in March 2004 during the collapse of the [[Wonga Coup]] plot to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea. After serving time in jail in Harare, he was extradited to Equatorial Guinea in February 2008 and sentenced to 34 years in its capital's notorious Black Beach jail. But after just one year he was granted a pardon on humanitarian grounds in November 2009 by President Teodoro Obiang, who he had originally plotted to overthrow. <ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/02/simon-mann-pardoned-equatorial-guinea Simon Mann pardoned over role in Equatorial Guinea coup plot] </ref>
 ==Affiliations==

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 ==Wonga Coup==
-Mann was arrested in Zimbabwe in March 2004 during the collapse of the [[Wonga Coup]] plot to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea.
+Mann was arrested in Zimbabwe in March 2004 during the collapse of the [[Wonga Coup]] plot to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea. After serving time in jail in Harare, he was extradited to Equatorial Guinea in February 2008 and sentenced to 34 years in its capital's notorious Black Beach jail. But after just one year he was granted a pardon on humanitarian grounds in November 2009 by President Teodoro Obiang, who he had originally plotted to overthrow. <ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/02/simon-mann-pardoned-equatorial-guinea Simon Mann pardoned over role in Equatorial Guinea coup plot] <ref/>
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 ==Gulf War==
-Mann Re-enlisted during the first Gulf War, joining the army staff at the British headquarters in Saudi Arabia, where he liased with active members of the [[Special Air Service]].<ref>The Wonga Coup, by Adam Roberts, Profile Books, 2006, p6.</ref> [[Tim Spicer]] states that he co-opted Mann into [[Peter de la Billiere]]'s team after the Gulf War. <ref>An Unorthodox Soldier, by [[Tim Spicer]], Mainstream Publishing, 1999, p143.</ref>
+Mann re-enlisted during the first Gulf War, joining the army staff at the British headquarters in Saudi Arabia, where he liaised with active members of the [[Special Air Service]].<ref>The Wonga Coup, by Adam Roberts, Profile Books, 2006, p6.</ref> [[Tim Spicer]] states that he co-opted Mann into [[Peter de la Billiere]]'s team after the Gulf War. <ref>An Unorthodox Soldier, by [[Tim Spicer]], Mainstream Publishing, 1999, p143.</ref>
 ==Angola==

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		+	Simon Francis Mann (born 26 June 1952) is a British mercenary and former British Army officer.
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	==Army career==		==Army career==
	Mann was commissioned into the Royal Scots in the early 1970s, and subsequently joined the [[Special Air Service]], eventually becoming a troop commander in G Squadron of 22 SAS, specialising in intelligence and counter-terrorism. He served a three-year tour in Northern Ireland, as well as postings in West Germany, Norway, Cyprus, Canada and Central America.<ref>The Wonga Coup, by Adam Roberts, Profile Books, 2006, p5.</ref>		Mann was commissioned into the Royal Scots in the early 1970s, and subsequently joined the [[Special Air Service]], eventually becoming a troop commander in G Squadron of 22 SAS, specialising in intelligence and counter-terrorism. He served a three-year tour in Northern Ireland, as well as postings in West Germany, Norway, Cyprus, Canada and Central America.<ref>The Wonga Coup, by Adam Roberts, Profile Books, 2006, p5.</ref>

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