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Speaking of the way the U.S. and UK had been working to depose Hussein's regime in Iraq with the help of white South Africa mercenaries, South Africa's Marxist President Thabo Mbeki commented, "If the U.N. does not matter, why should we, the little countries of Africa that make up the African Union, think that we...
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Mercenary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A mercenary is a professional soldier hired by a foreign army , as opposed to a soldier enlisted in the armed forces of a sovereign state. He or she takes part in armed conflict on many different sc...
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The most visited special operations site on the net! ... Fortune of Soldiers - Modern mercenaries offer to wage war for profit ... Thomas, Gerry S. Mercenary Troops in Modern Africa. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1984. 157 p. UA855.T56.
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JOHANNESBURG – Debate about the role played by mercenaries in Africa has been revived in recent months, following the arrest and subsequent sentencing of 68 men accused of plotting to overthrow Teodoro Obiang Nguema, president of the tiny, oil-rich state of Equatorial Guinea.
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On March 7th, some 70 men were nabbed in Zimbabwe, where their plane, which took off from South Africa, ... A second group of 15-odd alleged mercenaries was arrested in Equatorial Guinea and accused of being the advance party. One, Nick du Toit, admitted on television to plans to oust the president and install an exiled...
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Africa's conflicts continue to provided a livelihood for mercenaries, despite efforts to halt the practice ... Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma told reporters it was disturbing to hear that "every time" the world dealt with mercenaries, in Africa in particular, South Africans were among them.
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I mean these are not people who would kind of go in an impromptu way doing hand to mouth mercenary work where they could get it, carrying quite a lot of ideological baggage like a lot of the mercenaries who were all over the place in Africa during the '70s and at the beginning of the '80s.
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Foreign or African, mercenaries are back into action in Africa. Having changed their name and their image, today's mercenaries are not any more the rug-tug soldiers of fortune of the past. ... Since the war against Iraq, "corporate warriors" as the new mercenaries are now called, have come to the fore and offer their...
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allafrica.com/stories/200408170546.html
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The conspiracy was classic African stuff: a planeload of mercenaries flying across Africa, picking up a consignment of weapons as they went, to overthrow President Teodoro Obiang Nguema of Equatorial Guinea, a tiny dictatorship that is Africa's third-largest oil exporter.
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