Vliegtuig met coup-plegers voor Guinea vloog vanaf Amerikaanse militaire basis

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Plane Did Stop At Grantley Adams - Thursday 11, March-2004
A UNITED STATES registered plane at the centre of controversy after being detained on Monday with 64 suspected mercenaries aboard by the Zimbabwean government did stop at Grantley Adams International Airport last Saturday morning.
Informed sources told the DAILY NATION yesterday that the aircraft, a Boeing 727 (100 series), with registration number N4610, landed in Barbados shortly after midnight for refuelling before leaving around 6:30 a.m.

Sources also indicated that the aircraft, which Zimbabwean officials alleged also carried military equipment, had arrived from the Hope Air Force Base in North Carolina, United States, before its stop-over in Barbados.

Further reports stated that the plane, originally a commercial PanAm Airways aircraft up until a week ago, was being operated by the American Air Force, but international Press reports stated it had been sold to a South African company.

The plane was detained by Zimbabwean security officials after its owners made a false declaration of its cargo and crew at Harare’s main airport.

http://www.nationnews.com/StoryView.cfm?Record=48033&Section=Local&Current=2004%2D03%2D11%2000%3A00%3A00

Meer info van de CIA over het olierijke staat Equatorial Guinea
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ek.html

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Equatorial Guinea TV to air 'mercenary' confession
March 11, 2004, 20:06

Equatorial Guinea's state television plans to air a second interview in which a suspected South African mercenary confesses to involvement in a plot to topple the country's government. Executives at the station say they will show footage of Nick du Toit, the suspected mercenary, telling the foreign minister he had been paid by the US and multi-national companies to overthrow the president.

Authorities in Equatorial Guinea have presented Du Toit as the leader of what it calls an advance party of 15 mercenaries arrested on Monday and accused of plotting against the country. Diplomats have confirmed that du Toit was one of the men detained in Equatorial Guinea, a country split between volcanic islands and a mountainous jungle mainland, which is sub-Saharan Africa's third-biggest oil producer.

"I have asked for their names because we need to inform their families," Mokgethi Monaisa, the South African ambassador in Gabon, who also covers Equatorial Guinea, told reporters. "We have one name, Nick du Toit."

Defence sources in South Africa say du Toit is a former member of a South African reconnaissance unit and that he worked in Sierra Leone with Executive Outcomes, a now defunct international mercenary group. Equatorial Guinea says the 15 men it arrested are linked to a group of more than 60 suspected mercenaries detained in Zimbabwe this week and accused of involvement in a foiled plot to oust president Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo. Obiang, who seized power from his uncle in 1979, has said foreign countries and companies had conspired to replace him with Severo Moto who heads a government-in-exile in Spain.

Equatorial Guinea's state television has already aired one interview with du Toit, which diplomats in the capital said showed him looking calm and as if he had not been maltreated. "Only he spoke. He said he was the organiser and that he worked for Severo Moto. He said he was meant to take the president away and that he belonged to a group of mercenaries," one diplomat said.

Moto has denied any involvement in the plot. - Reuters
http://www.sabcnews.com/africa/central_africa/0,2172,75666,00.html

Maargoed dat die bomaanslag net gisteren plaats vond.
ps. Dit verhaal, de methode waarop de coup gepleegd moest worden lijkt enorm veel op de methode die werd gebruikt om Aristide af te zetten.