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--- Begin Message ----Caveat Lector- Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit[The ringleaders of the coup has been found guilty, 66 others have been acquittedl. The other prisoners have been found guilty of immigration violations only.] AFP via Yahoo - August 27,` 2004 http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1504&e=5&u=/afp/20040827/ts_afp/zimbabwe_safrica_eguinea_040827134139 Zimbabwe court finds Mann guilty over coup plot arms deal, absolves others HARARE (AFP) - A Zimbabwean court found Briton Simon Mann guilty of attempting to illegally buy arms for an alleged coup plot in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea but absolved 66 other suspected mercenaries. Mann, wearing a khaki prison shirt and shorts, showed no emotion as he stood before Magistrate Mishrod Guvamombe who read out the verdict at a makeshift court in the maximum security Chikurubi prison. "The action by the accused (Mann) amounts at the most to attempting to purchase firearms. The accused is found guilty," said Guvamombe. He said sentences would be handed down on September 10. Mann, a bespectacled former member of Britain's crack Special Air Service military unit is believed to have been the mastermind behind the alleged plot to overthrow President Teodoro Obiang Nguema of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea. He was arrested along with 69 other alleged soldiers of fortune on March 7 when a plane stopped off in Harare to pick up weapons that the men claim were to be used to guard a diamond mine in Democratic Republic of Congo. The state has asked for a sentence of between five and 15 years in prison for Mann, who is also linked to accused coup financier Mark Thatcher, the son of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher. Guvamombe acquitted 66 other suspected soldiers of fortune although most of them -- 64 -- still face sentencing on the minor charge of breaching the country's immigration act. Two other men described as weapons inspectors who were arrested along with Mann at the airport where they awaited the plane's arrival -- South Africans Harry Carlse and Jacobus Horne -- faced no charges and were to be released later in the day. "I think it was a fantastic day," said Harry's brother Johnny Carlse. "This has been the best news in six months. I can't believe it." As the judge declared the acquittal of the 66 men, applause broke out from the small group of family members who attended the hearings. "The state failed to discharge its onus by proving the accused persons guilty beyond reasonable doubt," Guvamombe said. The prosecution has asked for jail terms of between one year to 18 months for violations of immigration offenses but the three-member crew who flew the plane only face fines for pleading guilty to breaking aviation laws. Mann and Nick du Toit, a South African on trial in Equatorial Guinea in connection with the same coup plot, set up Executive Outcomes, which operated from Pretoria in South Africa and was active in Angola, Sierre Leone and Papua New Guinea. The trial in Malabo opened on Monday with Du Toit admitting to a limited role in the plot, overseeing logistics. The prosecution in Equatorial Guinea said it is seeking the death penalty for him. The case took a new twist this week with the shock arrest in Cape Town of Mark Thatcher, who has been charged with bankrolling the alleged plot to topple the regime in Equatorial Guinea. 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