On 1/6/2015 1:01 AM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) wrote:
> However, there was an instance, back in the '70's or early '80's where a group of mercs in powerboats seized control of one of the very small island nations in the the Indian Ocean (the name escapes me).
>
> They 'bossman' actually managed to hang on for quite a while until a group of mainland-africa nations cobbled together a force & expelled him.
>
> I didn't know about it until I read a short  back-page newswire (AP, I think) article about the 'rescue' operation in my local newspaper.
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> Considering how incompetent native 'local-yokel' coups generally turn out to be, even when initially successful,  in 3rd world nations, I don't think it's really that far-fetched, esp since it appears the 'americans' may very well have also been 'natives' themselves.

You may be thinking of Col. Mike Hoare's aborted coup attempt in the
Seychelles Islands.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Hoare#The_Seychelles_affair_and_subsequent_conviction

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