US, UK Knew of Equatorial Guinea Plot, Sunday Times Says
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The US and UK knew of the possibility of a coup against the government of Equatorial Guinea, the Sunday Times reported, citing unidentified officials at the Pentagon and UK government.
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Britain received a full outline of a plot to stage a coup d'etat in Equatorial Guinea at least two months before it was nipped in the bud.
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa A British mercenary whose career reads like a thriller faces sentencing today in a plot to overthrow the president of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea.
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Equatorial Guinea might seek the extradition of Mark Thatcher from South Africa where he is charged with bankrolling a coup attempt, The Sun said Thursday.
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South Africa has approved Equatorial Guinean prosecutors&#39; request to submit questions to the son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher about a coup plot in the west African nation.
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The government will come under increasing pressure this week to explain what action it took to protect British citizens in the West African state of Equatorial Guinea - after Jack Straw, the foreign secretary, admitted that he knew about the attempted
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British mercenary Simon Mann, who was extradited from Zimbabwe to Equatorial Guinea at the weekend, visited in prison by the US ambassador and his deputy
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It was big news in August this year. British police uncovered a massive plot by terrorists to blow up planes over the Atlantic.Comment
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Britain reportedly knew about an alleged coup plot in Equatorial Guinea at least five weeks before a team of mercenaries was nabbed in Zimbabwe as they prepared to carry it out.
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Police said Saturday they were acting on information provided by a British newspaper, News of the World. The paper said it had infiltrated a group that was trying to obtain radioactive material for a Saudi
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MALABO, Equatorial Guinea - 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.
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The US says one of its officials was "ill-informed" in saying Britain got nothing from its US relationship.
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A British newspaper admitted it wrongly identified a Romanian man as involved in an alleged plot to kidnap football star David Beckham's wife Victoria and their children.
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London - Britain received a full outline of a plot to stage a coup d&#39;etat in Equatorial Guinea at least two months before it was nipped in the bud, the Observer newspaper reported on Sunday.
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Entirely innocent supporters deported anyway Eight days ago the Sunday Times revealed the thwarting of yet another terror plot. In late January "a group of suspected Islamist suicide bombers were arrested in a secret security operation at Gatwick airport," the paper told us, going on to describe plans for "pairs of suicide bombers... to strap explosives to their bodies and blow themselves up on the rail and bus networks in Britain, France, Germany and Portugal."â¦
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Mark Thatcher, the son of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, will plead guilty to charges of funding an attempted coup plot in Equatorial Guinea, according to reports quoting legal sources.
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Financiers in Europe and Africa were behind a plot to overthrow the government of Africa&#39;s No. 3 oil producer, an accused ringleader testified Monday at the