Spain 'backed E Guinea coup plot'

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BBC News


A senior Equatorial Guinea official has accused the former Spanish government of involvement in the plot to overthrow President Teodoro Obiang Nguema.

National security adviser Ruben Maya told the BBC that mercenaries involved in the plot said they had been backed by Spain's security services.

Opposition leader Severo Moto, in exile in Spain, is among those given long jail terms years over the plot.

Spain has previously denied similar accusations from Guinean officials.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4051067.stm

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1. Pentagon's deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence in charge of

special operations and combating terrorism NAMED in yesterday's Observer article:

Revealed: how Britain was told full coup plan

· Straw failed to act on warning
· Foreign Office kept silent over oil plot

Antony Barnett and Martin Bright
Sunday November 28, 2004
The Observer

Britain was given a full outline of an illegal coup plot in a vital oil-rich African state, including the dates, details of arms shipments and key players, several months before the putsch was launched, according to confidential documents obtained by The Observer.

But, despite Britain's clear obligations under international law, Jack Straw, who was personally told of the plans at the end of January, failed to warn the government of Equatorial Guinea.

The revelations about the coup, led by former SAS officer Simon Mann and allegedly funded in part by Sir Mark Thatcher, son of the former Prime Minister, will put increasing pressure on the Foreign Secretary to make a full statement in Parliament about exactly what the UK government knew of the putsch and when they knew it.

This weekend in a statement, the Foreign Office said: 'We do not comment on intelligence issues. But ministers and officials in the FCO acted promptly on receipt of relevant information.' Last week, The Observer reported that Straw ordered a change to evacuation plans for British citizens in Equatorial Guinea after receiving news of the coup.

See:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,1361299,00.html

[Robbien]

2. The list of countries backing this coup keeps getting longer

You have Thatcher and the Brit mercenaries
You have a bunch of rich global corporatists funding the coup
You have the CIA aware of the plot
Now Spain

Have I left anyone out?

[emad]

3. Marc Rich and Enron's Jeff Skilling?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1025386

[elehhhhna]

4. think exxon, baby.

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5. Didn't they name one of their tankers after Condoleezza Rice?

and now she gets Colon Bowel's job....

If Foreign Secretary Jack Straw knew about the coup plot, then it is inconceivable that Bowel and or Rumsfeld did not...

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6. And those commie Spanish surrender monkeys...

capitulating "under pressure" after the Madrid bombings, actually had the audacity to vote Jose Maria Aznar out of office.

[JohnLocke]

7. Kick