Executive Outcomes
Executive Outcomes(EO) was a company set up by Simon Mann in 1993.
It was widely reported during the 1990s that EO was a mercenary company.
Mr Simon Mann, a member of the family which owned the Watney brewing empire, was educated at Eaton School and joined the the British Army Regiment the Scots Guards. For a time he was on secondment to the Special Air Service (SAS). He saw action in Central America, Cyprus, and Northern Ireland. He left the army in 1985, but was called back on the reserve list during the first Gulf War.
Between 1993 when EO was formed and 1995, Mr Man made a fortune organising the protection of oil interests in Angola and diamond mines in Sierra Leone.
By 1995 the profile of the company was too high so Mr Mann set up a sister company called Sandline International with another ex-Scots Guards officer, Lt-Col Tim Spicer.
In 1999 South Africa passed an anti-mercenary law and so EO stopped trading on 1 January 1999. However it was revealed at the trial, which began on August 23, 2004 of 14 men, accused of a coup plot, in the Equatorial Guinean capital, Malabo; that people associated with EO in the 1990s were aledgedly still involved in mercenery operations. CNN reported on the 25th of August that:
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