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Simon Mann - The Mercenary - TRAILER

London Real

Brian Rose

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4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2017

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Simon Francis Mann (born 26 June 1952) is a British mercenary and former British Army officer. He served part of a 34-year prison sentence in Equatorial Guinea for his role in a failed coup d'état in 2004, before receiving a presidential pardon on humanitarian grounds on 2 November 2009.

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0:00.0

How do you feel about the word mercenary? I've been accused of being one and

0:06.6

convicted of being one. It's never worried me. I wanted to be a soldier. I was in the Scots guards, I was in the Special Air Service,

0:17.0

I had just left the British Army, the Angolan rebels, attacked the company that I work for.

0:26.0

Our men, our livelihood, let's fight back.

0:30.0

Full on fighting. Equatorial Guinea, West Africa.

0:37.0

They said, right, we think President Obiang is an out-and-out tyrant.

0:41.0

Would you get involved in a coup?

0:44.0

Said, yeah, why not?

0:46.0

We made a mistake.

0:47.0

I should have said, stop, and I got arrested.

0:50.0

See, pull a fucking gun out and shoot me. well, let's just hope they shoot straight.

0:55.0

I've got eight years and Chikoo will be maximum security prison.

0:58.0

It was Christmas for Mugabe.

1:00.0

Which body parts are going to go missing first?

1:04.0

I want a written deal, want you guys to sign it,

1:08.0

that if I help you, you're going to let me go.

1:10.0

The attorney general said no, no we do not negotiate with terrorists. I was an

1:20.5

intelligence officer in Northern Ireland and I know that we always negotiate with terrorists.

1:27.0

This is how the West is one, is by just putting your bulls on the line and going for it.

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