The majority of the 64 coup ”foot soldiers” imprisoned in Zimbabwe last March on their way to an abortive coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea were released on Thursday. But their future is bleak. Pomfret, their home for the 15 years — including about 700 houses, a school, churches and a cemetery where the remains of soldiers who died in combat are buried — will be razed to the ground.
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/ 24 February 2005
Bio-warrior Wouter Basson’s tangled web of explanations about almost 100 front companies set up while he was head of Project Coast began to unravel in the Constitutional Court this week. For the first time, details of Basson’s testimony at an October 1997 bail hearing have entered the public domain. They contrast sharply with his evidence in a 30-month trial in the Pretoria High Court.
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/ 21 January 2005
Fresh claims of official support for an abortive bid to overthrow Equatorial Guinea’s head of state were made this week by one of the chief conspirators. According to Free State pilot Crause Steyl, jailed coup leaders told him that South African authorities would not act against their mercenary group.
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/ 19 February 2003
She’s been described as the most dangerous woman in the world. Scientist Rihab Taha is credited with filling Iraq’s secret bunkers with ‘enough lethal germs to kill everyone on Earth – twice’. Weapons inspectors call her “Dr Germ” or “Toxic Taha”, and some of them have been on the receiving end of her fiery temper
Two months ago an Internet search for information about Steven Jay Hatfill would have produced less than a dozen results, confined to scientific research bearing his name.