Para Reg Mercenaries..... Angola

[trubrit2411]

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Bob..........What did Banks get time for ? That Angola do ?

[bob9739]

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Tone, don't know if he went down for that, but it was something to do with his mercenary affairs, pity the old mans long gone now or I would have asked him .

[trubrit2411]

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Tone, don't know if he went down for that, but it was something to do with his mercenary affairs, pity the old mans long gone now or I would have asked him .

http://wolfiewiseguy.blogspot.com/2013/03/john-banks_31.html

[bob9739]

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Cheers for that Tone, he must have been in the old mans Nick after he was recaptured for absconding as it was a closed Nick. Didn't know about the blackmail bit , interesting read cheers mate !

[trubrit2411]

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Cheers for that Tone, he must have been in the old mans Nick after he was recaptured for absconding as it was a closed Nick. Didn't know about the blackmail bit , interesting read cheers mate !

Read this for a load of bollox, especially the last bit. Banks Interview by an Aussie journalist

[trubrit2411]

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It gets better Bob

http://www.mercenary-wars.net/biography/john-banks.html

[trubrit2411]

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Double crossing bastard

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/man-cleared-in-customs-heroin-sting-operation-to-arrest-businessman-for-drug-smuggling-relied-on-1453561.html

[trubrit2411]

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For Callan (Georgiu) and the other captured mercenaries, a show trial was not long delayed. In Luanda, the thirteen men were put on trial. The MPLA had obviously learned from their Soviet and Cuban "advisers". All were found guilty, as was to be expected. Interestingly, Callan's sister, Panayiota Georgiou was allowed into Angola to both monitor the trial and visit her brother, Costas. She is quoted as saying in an interview given at the time, "He is standing up very well to this ordeal".

And so he was. So well, in fact, that his Angolan interegators despaired of breaking him.

He stood up in court, and said that whatever his men had done, had been on his orders. At this juncture, fate took a hand, and Callan's sister actually began going out with one of the chief Angolan prosecuting interagators. Despairing of breaking Callan, the interogation team tried one last ploy. Returning to his cell one day day, Callan entered to find, facing in the cell, the freshly disinterred, and by now well decomposed, body of one of his mercenary comrades who had been killed earlier. This, it seems, had the desired effect of turning Callan from a defiant, even arrogant prisoner, into a shattered man. Found guilty, he, Andrew McKenzie, (another former British Army soldier) and John Derek Barker, were sentenced to death.

http://www.cvni.net/radio/e2k/e2k031/e2k31article.html

[billy meikle]

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It gets better Bob

http://www.mercenary-wars.net/biography/john-banks.html

what a lot of booolllocks tone

[stephenfrank]

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Cheers for that Tone, he must have been in the old mans Nick after he was recaptured for absconding as it was a closed Nick. Didn't know about the blackmail bit , interesting read cheers mate !

Jonah (Sqn) got injured over there, think he was in a Landrover that got blown up. Jake Mckue who kept in touch with him until he died says he still suffered health problems all his life from his time there.

[jackw102]

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I first met Jonah at Abingdon then at an ABF week end in Aldershot he mentioned the mishap with a mine.There was a guy in my Sqn who got out of Angola by tabbing through the bush and not using the roads

[Don the Mod]

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I first met Jonah at Abingdon then at an ABF week end in Aldershot he mentioned the mishap with a mine.There was a guy in my Sqn who got out of Angola by tabbing through the bush and not using the roads

Jonah (Sqn) got injured over there, think he was in a Landrover that got blown up. Jake Mckue who kept in touch with him until he died says he still suffered health problems all his life from his time there.

Steve, I don't know that it was Angola where Jonah got injured. I was talking to Paddy Lindsay at PARA 50 in the shot when he came hobbling along on crutches or sticks and Paddy asked him what happened. Jonah said it was "a little thing up near the Chinese border", he wasn't saying much because he wasn't sure who I was.

Jack was it PARA 50 you met him at?

[stephenfrank]

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Steve, I don't know that it was Angola where Jonah got injured. I was talking to Paddy Lindsay at PARA 50 in the shot when he came hobbling along on crutches or sticks and Paddy asked him what happened. Jonah said it was "a little thing up near the Chinese border", he wasn't saying much because he wasn't sure who I was.

Jack was it PARA 50 you met him at?

pretty sure it was Angola Don.

[Don the Mod]

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I'll trust what you say over my memory any day mate. China was mentioned in the conversation and I've probably done my usual 2+2 = whatever I think at the time.

[bob9739]

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Jonah (Sqn) got injured over there, think he was in a Landrover that got blown up. Jake Mckue who kept in touch with him until he died says he still suffered health problems all his life from his time there.

Jonah died of Hepetitus Steve, saw him about 12 months before he popped his clogs, hadn't lost his sense of humour !