Qaddafi's End Came Under The Protection of Mercenaries

Seven years ago Simon Mann a former officer in Britain's SAS and Sir Mark Thatcher(son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher)  were contracted to provide a mercenary army which would seek to overthrow the dictator  Equatorial Guinea an oil rich nation in West Africa.  The attempt was called   the Wonga Coup Simon Mann was jailed in  Zimbabwe and Equatorial Guinea for his involvement in the failed plot.  




Former members of the Wonga Coup are believed to have been the mercenaries protecting Gaddafi

  The private force of South Africans are said to have undertaken the task of getting Gaddafi out of the country via the convoy in the belief it had the backing of the Western powers. The men were recruited, it is claimed, by a woman of British background – whose name cannot currently be published for legal reasons – living in Kenya and working on behalf of a company in London.However, the extraction of Gaddafi ended in ferocious violence and confusion when the convoy carrying him out of Sirte, his birthplace where he made his final stand, drove into an ambush with sustained air strikes from French warplanes and ground attacks from rebel fighters.

 Another group fighters associated with the same group are believed to be protecting Gaddafi's son  Saif al-Islam.

Saif al-Islam is said to be negotiating with the International Criminal Court to hand himself in to face war crimes charges. However, there are also reports that his armed escort may be trying to move him outside the court's jurisdiction to Zimbabwe. Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said: "We have some information that there is a mercenary group trying to help him to move to a different country, so we are trying to prevent this activity. We are also working with some states to see if we can disrupt this attempt. Some of these mercenaries are South African, allegedly."