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| | Maldives - MALDIVES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | According to Gayoom, former president Ibrahim Nasir, supported by nine British ex-Special Air Services mercenaries, masterminded the plot. |
 | | Nasir denied this allegation but in April 1981, the authorities sentenced Ahmed Naseem, former deputy minister of fisheries and brother-in-law of Nasir, to life imprisonment for plotting to overthrow Gayoom. |
 | | In July 1990, Gayoom pardoned Nasir in absentia, ostensibly because of his role in the independence struggle. |
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