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	Simon Mann, ex-Eton, ex-SAS. Now the nightmare of Black Beach prison \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		Photograph: AP After three years spent languishing in a Zimbabwean prison, the British mercenary Simon Mann was hoping to win his freedom this week, his sentence cut short for good behaviour.
		Mann was convicted in September 2004 of attempting to buy weapons without a licence after he landed in Harare with a group of 69, mainly South African, mercenaries.
		Mann claimed that he was en route to guard a mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo but the men arrested with him served less than one year in jail after pleading guilty to charges of violating Zimbabwe's immigration and civil aviation laws.
	www.guardian.co.uk /equatorialguinea/story/0,,2076303,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=12 (1045 words)

	Simon Mann - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Simon Mann's father, George Mann, captained the England cricket team in the late 1940s and was heir to the Watney Mann brewing empire that is now part of Diageo.
		Mann and the others claimed that they were not on their way to Equatorial Guinea, but were in fact flying to the Democratic Republic of Congo in order to provide security for diamond mining industry.
		Mann and his colleagues were put on trial in Zimbabwe and on August 27 Mann was found guilty of attempting to buy arms for an alleged coup plot and sentenced to 7 years imprisonment.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Simon_Mann (892 words)

	Simon Mann goes to jail: Africa: Zimbabwe: News24
		Simon Mann, the leader of the group of 70 foreigners arrested in Zimbabwe on charges of trying to topple the president of Equatorial Guinea.
		Harare - Briton Simon Mann, the alleged mastermind behind a plot to stage a coup in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, has been sentenced on Friday to seven years in jail by a Zimbabwe court.
		Mann was convicted two weeks ago on charges of attempting to illegally purchase weapons that prosecutors argued were to be used to topple President Teodoro Obiang Nguema in Malabo.
	www.news24.com /News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,6119,2-11-1662_1587250,00.html (221 words)

	Simon Mann, Schema-Root rss
		A coup plot was staged in 2004, led by Simon Mann, a friend of Sir Mark Thatcher; the former prime ministerand#39;s son escaped a claim for millions of pounds in...
		The alleged ringleader of the plot, Briton Simon Mann, and the two pilots of the plane, remain in prison in Zimbabwe on longer sentences.
		The coupand#39;s chief planner and anti-hero is Simon Mann.
	schema-root.org /rss/?p=14 (1315 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Lonely was working closely with Mann on goldmining, forestry and engineering ventures in Africa, He visited the continent as a representative of Logo Logistics, the company through which Mann later financed the attempt in March to overthrow Teodoro Obiang Nguema, president of Equatorial Guinea.
		Longley accompanied Mann on a trip to Sudan in December 2002 to inspect a mining and forestry area that could have yielded millions of pounds worth of gold and teak.
		Mann was jailed for attempting illegally to buy weapons for use in the coup in Equatorial Guinea.
	www.dailynews.lk /2004/11/30/fea03.html (811 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Zimbabwe: Leader of Suspected Mercenaries Pleads Guilty to Weapons Charge
		Mann pleaded not guilty to charges of violating firearms laws, but his lawyer Jonathan Samkange entered a guilty plea to a lesser charge of attempting to buy arms of war.
		Mann, a former member of an elite British military unit, and the others were plotting to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea.
		Mann, were all carrying South African passports at the time of their arrest but originally came from Angola, Namibia, DRC, Zimbabwe and South Africa.
	www.theepochtimes.com /news/4-7-28/22620.html (312 words)

	Woody Mann - About Woody
		Mann soon went on to perform with modern day blues musicians John Fahey, British great Jo-Ann Kelly, as well as early masters of the genre, such as Bukka White and Son House.
		Mann has recorded extensively and performed everywhere from the orchestra pits of Broadway to festivals, clubs and concert stages worldwide.
		Mann has not forgotten those early lessons in the Rev. Davis’ living room, however, or the jazz traditions that were his wellspring.
	www.woodymann.com /aboutwoody.html (319 words)

	Former British Soldier Jailed in Zimbabwe Fights Extradition to Equatorial Guinea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Simon Mann a former officer in the British Army has begun fighting a demand for his extradition to Equatorial Guinea where he is wanted for trial.
		Mann was arrested in Harare in 2004 along with 69 former South African soldiers who Equatorial Guinea says were planning to overthrow their government.
		Mann was arrested in March 2004 shortly after a plane carrying scores of former South African soldiers touched down in Harare.
	www.voanews.com /english/2006-08-31-voa26.cfm (546 words)

	African Coup: Mark Thatcher & Simon Mann - Military Photos
		The plane was to be met there by Simon Mann, a British citizen and resident of Cape Town, South Africa, who had arranged the purchase of cargo that would be loaded into the 727's hold.
		Simon Mann and two others on the ground were arrested, as well.
		Mann's stammering explanation was that the plane was en route to the Democratic Republic of Congo, where he and the men had been hired to guard diamond mines.
	www.militaryphotos.net /forums/showthread.php?t=34028 (241 words)

	Mercenaries and misery - World - www.theage.com.au
		Simon Mann, (left) the leader of the band of mercenaries arrested in Zimbabwe in March on charges of trying to topple the president of Equatorial Guinea.
		Mann is a complex character, part buccaneering thrill seeker, part businessman, who left the SAS to make a living fighting wars in Africa.
		Mann himself sold some of his shares and put in $400,000 to cover the cost of a converted Boeing 727, which was bought a week before the coup attempt from a firm in Kansas.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/09/01/1093938994866.html (1659 words)

	Mark Thatcher Mercenaries Equatorial Africa Active Duty Military Army Navy Air Force Marines Coast Guard Reserves ...
		Mann himself is said to have put in $400,000 to cover the cost of a Boeing 727 bought a week before the coup attempt from a firm in Kansas, specially converted for US military use so that it could take off and land on shorter runways.
		It is alleged that in February, Mann had flown to Harare to discuss a consignment of arms with officers of the state-owned Zimbabwe Defence Industries, to be delivered on February 20 to the airstrip at Kolwezi in Congo that was under the control of a local rebel leader.
		Mann himself sold some of his shares and put in $400,000 to cover the cost of a specially converted Boeing 727 which was bought a week before the coup attempt from a firm in Kansas.
	www.active-duty.com /MI_Mark_Thatcher_mercenaries.htm (5162 words)

	IOL: Simon Mann's new 'home' is a hell-hole
		Mann, leader of the group of men accused of planning a coup in Equatorial Guinea, was jailed for arms offences resulting from an attempt to buy weapons in Zimbabwe in March.
		Mann, who has lost weight in prison and was unshaven with shoulder-length hair, had no supporters or relatives in court and has stayed largely aloof from the proceedings since they began.
		Among the messages Mann sent to his family were requests for payment of legal costs for the men he hired for the job he bungled so badly.
	www.iol.co.za /index.php?set_id=1&click_id=68&art_id=vn20040911091819888C602664 (1116 words)

	ZWNews.com - linking the world to Zimbabwe
		Old Etonian mercenary Simon Mann is the leader of 70 foreign soldiers accused in Zimbabwe of plotting to topple an African tyrant.
		Mann came out and leaned on a low wall, not exactly joining me. He was of medium height, tight and trim, with a short-sleeved military-style shirt and chinos with a knife-edge crease.
		Mann had hoped to trick the Zimbabweans into allowing him guns and passage, claiming that he aimed to back a rebel Congo group whose success would help Robert Mugabe to gain access to diamond revenues, badly needed by his impoverished regime.
	www.zwnews.com /print.cfm?ArticleID=9174 (1777 words)

	Mail & Guardian Online:
		Mann is accused of planning to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea by leading a mercenary force into the capital, Malabo, and kidnapping or killing the president.
		Unravelling the riddle of Simon Mann is not easy when even relatives were kept ignorant of his activities.
		In an interview with this newspaper in 2002, Mann suggested he had taken part in the film partly to defend the army (though he admitted Bloody Sunday was a "cock-up"), and partly, he said, to aid the peace process.
	mg.co.za /Content/l3.asp?ao=66566 (1904 words)

	Coup Attempt in Equatorial Guinea - SourceWatch
		Mann was arrested along with 70 others in Harare, Zimbabwe, on March 7, 2004, while the plane carrying the soldiers was making a stopover there to load up with the weapons for the coup [3].
		Mann attempted to smuggle a letter [9] out of prison to his family that, among other things, mentioned the serious state he was in.
		Mann had not been able to legally buy weapons in South Africa, which was the motivation for going to Zimbabwe were he made a $170,000 down payment to arm himself from their government's supply.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Coup_Attempt_in_Equatorial_Guinea (2288 words)

	Chrometoaster - Simon Mann
		Simon Mann received a Bachelor of Design at the Wellington School of Design in 2000 majoring in both interactive and 3D design.
		Young and hungry, Simon sees Chrometoaster as the perfect venue to continue expanding his skill base in both interactive media and 3D imaging while producing work of the highest calibre.
		Thriving on complexity, Simon enjoys projects that involve the combination of both 3D and interactive design as well as collaborative work with other designers with expertise across a range of design fields.
	www.chrometoaster.com /people/simon-mann.php (101 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| world news Zim not extraditing Simon Mann
		Simon Mann was given a seven-year jail term, later reduced to four years, on charges of breaching firearms legislation after he and 60 other men were arrested when their plane landed at Harare International Airport in March 2004.
		He was referring to the agreement signed last week by himself and Obono on behalf of the two countries which sought to promote co-operation to promote justice, equality and the fight against crime.
		Eight other men are to go on trial in South Africa on the country's tough anti-mercenary legislation introduced in 1998 to stamp out mercenary activity and shed the country's reputation as a springboard for soldiers of fortune in coup-prone Africa.
	iafrica.com /news/worldnews/398265.htm (424 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Profile: Simon Mann
		Sixty-six other suspected mercenaries were arrested with Mann when their plane was impounded in the capital, Harare, in March.
		Mr Mann's lawyers say their client and the others - mostly South Africans - were on their way to the Democratic Republic of Congo to help secure diamond mines.
		Eton was followed by Sandhurst, the prestigious military academy, and from there it was a natural progression to the Scots Guards, an army regiment associated with royalty and the upper class of British society.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/3916465.stm (602 words)

	Simon Mann - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
		Simon Mann es un experto de métodos de seguridad, mercenario y ex-oficial del Ejército Británico, que actualmente mantiene ciudadanía sudafricana.
		El 7 de marzo del 2004 Simon Mann y 69 otros hombres fueron detenidos en Zimbabwe cuando su Boeing 727 fue tomado por fuerzas del Estado durante una escala en Harare, donde se suponía que iban a recibir £100000 en armas y equipaje.
		Mann y sus colegas fueron juzgados en Zimbabwe y el 27 de agosto de ese año, Mann fue declarado culpable de tratar de comprar armas para un supuesto complot golpista y condenado a 7 años de cárcel.
	es.wikipedia.org /wiki/Simon_Mann (886 words)

	Simon Mann - SourceWatch
		Simon Mann co-founded the mercenary company Executive Outcomes in the early 1990s with Anthony Buckingham.
		Mann was sentenced to seven years in prison by a Zimbabwean magistrate for trying to illegally buy weapons in that country.
		Many feel the weapons were to be used in a coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea, where nineteen were on trial for plotting.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Simon_Mann (241 words)

	Julian Cope presents Head Heritage \| U-Know! \| Features \| Simon Mann: A Very English Killer
		Simon Mann was described in the British press as ‘looking more like a jailed intellectual than a freelance commando’.
		It’s not surprising Mann was collared in Zimbabwe.
		Other great romantic adventures of Mann’s include running guns and 120 mercenaries to Sierra Leone in 1995 at the height of the killing, in direct contravention of a UN embargo designed to limit arms input and stem the bloodshed.
	www.headheritage.co.uk /uknow/features/index.php?id=56 (1842 words)

	afrika.no - Zimbabwe/Equatorial Guinea: Simon Mann gets seven years (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Briton Simon Mann, the alleged brains behind a plot to stage a coup in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, was on Friday sentenced to seven years in jail by a Zimbabwe court for attempting to illegally purchase weapons.
		The son of former prime minister Margaret Thatcher was arrested in South Africa on August 25 for allegedly bankrolling the coup plot in Equatorial Guinea.
		Mann reportedly said bribes could settle the affair, evoking a call for a "large splodge of wonga" and adding: "Now it's bad times and everyone has to pull their f!!!ing weight."
	www.afrika.no /Detailed/5993.html (537 words)

	Making a Killing - The Center for Public Integrity
		Mann, an anti-terrorism and computer specialist, who had left the SAS in 1985, later went on to found Executive Outcomes in the United Kingdom in 1993.
		Mann was the scion of a wealthy brewing family, and the fifth generation in his family to attend Britain's top private school, Eton College.
		Mann joined forces with a former insurance broker who had pioneered computer insurance and had been a manager for Control Risks, a large and reputable risk assessment consultancy that was founded by ex-SAS officers.
	www.publicintegrity.org /bow/report.aspx?aid=149&sid=100 (8946 words)

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	www.premiumseatsusa.com /concert/Aimee-Mann (319 words)

	FOXNews.com - British Mercenary Legend Could Get 10 Years - U.S. & World
		Mann has shown up for court appearances bespectacled and bedraggled, dressed in prison-issue khaki shirt and shorts — a far cry from the debonaire adventurer described by acquaintances.
		One of Mann's former associates at Executive Outcomes, Nick du Toit (search), is now on trial for his life in the west African nation, where he has admitted plotting to overthrow Nguema, who seized power himself in a 1979 coup.
		Mann and the other accused, most of whom were arrested when their aging Boeing 727 landed at Harare International Airport on March 7, deny they were preparing a coup.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,131879,00.html (1009 words)

	Equipo Nizkor - Sir Mark Thatcher threatened over 'mercenary' friend
		Mr Mann had smuggled a letter out of his Harare prison cell asking for help from "Scratcher", understood to be rhyming slang for Thatcher.
		Mr Mann, 51, is a scion of the Watneys brewing empire who has spent his time in captivity reading the works of Shakespeare.
		Mr Mann's case is complicated by his status as the alleged leader of the coup plot.
	www.derechos.org /nizkor/corru/doc/thatcher2.html (775 words)

	Panic letter from jail tied big names to coup plot - World - www.smh.com.au
		Mann's letter referred to a contact called Scratcher, his nickname for the controversial businessman Sir Mark Thatcher, son of the former prime minister Margaret (now Lady) Thatcher.
		According to Mann's witness statement, the plot began to take shape in January last year when he was introduced to Eli Calil, a London-based businessman and friend and financier of Severo Moto, leader of the Party for Progress of Equatorial Guinea and president of the Guinean government in exile in Madrid.
		Mann sold some of his shares and put in more than $A500,000 to cover the cost of a converted Boeing 727 that was bought a week before the coup attempt from a firm in Kansas.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/08/27/1093518094785.html?from=moreStories (1156 words)

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