Financiers allegedly hatched coup plot for oil-rich nation
Friday, August 27, 2004 at 07:34PM
TheSpook
Hatched by Old Etonians and other members of the British political and
financial elite, an alleged scheme to seize control of this oil-rich
nation was no ordinary African coup plot, according to witnesses and
prosecutors. The plan as outlined in a trial that began Monday: send in
a motley crew of European, Asian and African mercenaries to oust the
25-year ruler of what is widely considered one of the world's most
corrupt regimes. The prize: control of Africa's third-largest oil
producer. But if there was any plot, it went disastrously wrong. Mark
Thatcher, the 51-year-old son of former British Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher, found himself detained in his pajamas Wednesday at his South
African home and later charged with helping to finance the plot, which
African authorities said they foiled in March. [more ]
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