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🗓️ 3 September 2017
⏱️ 172 minutes
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Simon Francis Mann 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? |
0:05.0 | I've been accused of being one and convicted of being one. |
0:08.0 | It's never worried me. |
0:10.0 | I wanted to be a soldier. I was in the Scots guards, I was in the Special Air Service, |
0:16.7 | 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. |
0:29.0 | Full on fighting. Equatorial Guinea, West Africa. |
0:37.0 | They said, right, we think President Obiang is an out-and-out |
0:40.8 | tarant. |
0:41.8 | Would you get involved in a coup? |
0:44.0 | Said yeah why not we made a mistake I should have said stop I got arrested |
0:49.2 | They pull a fucking gun and I can shoot me, well, let's just hope they shoot straight. |
0:55.0 | I've got 8 years and trick-o-be maximum security prison. |
0:58.0 | It was Christmas for Maccabi. |
1:01.0 | Which body parts are going to go missing first? |
1:04.0 | I want a written deal, I want you guys to sign it, |
1:08.0 | but if I help you, you're going to let me go. |
1:10.0 | The attorney general said, no man we do not negotiate with terrorists. |
1:20.0 | I was an intelligence officer in Northern Ireland and I know that we always negotiate with terrorists. |
1:26.5 | This is how the West is one, is by just putting your bulls on the line and going for it. And the I'm going to do. This week on the show is Simon Mann, who is a British mercenary soldier and former member of the SAS who made his bones in Africa as a private military contractor. |
2:23.0 | He created a company called Executive Outcomes, |
2:25.4 | and with his military knowledge, |
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