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/ 13 January 2005

Scratcher’s wasted wonga

Among the many ironies surrounding last year’s abortive coup in Equatorial Guinea is that the helicopter funded by Sir Mark Thatcher never got off the ground. Plans to use a hired chopper as a gunship and air ambulance were abandoned less than a month before South African mercenaries launched a British-backed assault on the oil-rich West African state’s island capital of Malabo on March 7

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