Garvey's Ghost: Black Talk

Iraq...Haiti...Equatorial Guinea?

Not satisfied with Iraq and Haiti, evidence is growing that an American plane filled with suspected mercenaries were headed to Eq. Guinea in order to overthrow that government. To be honest I haven't been up on what the situation in that country is, but with Zimbabwe about to put the 60 people from that plane on trial, there may be some serious info about to get put out.

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Equatorial Guinea arrested a separate group of 15 suspected mercenaries, said to be involved in the same alleged plot.

The oil-rich state's president said South Africa had warned him that a group of mercenaries was heading for his country and he suggested that they had had foreign backing of hostile foreign powers and multinational firms.

A man said to be the leader of the "mercenaries" has appeared on Equatorial Guinea state television to say that they had been part of a plot to remove Mr Obiang and put an exiled opposition leader in power.

"It wasn't a question of taking the life of the head of state but of spiriting him away, taking him to Spain and forcing him into exile and then of immediately installing the government-in-exile of Severo Moto Nsa," said the alleged coup leader, who introduced himself as Nick du Toit, according to a transcript released by AFP news agency.

In Spain, Mr Moto, who led a failed coup bid in Equatorial Guinea in 1997, denied any role in the alleged plot but also launched a blistering attack on President Obiang, who himself took power in a coup in 1979.

Read the rest over at the BBC

Links:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3500132.stm