They'd had a failed plot earlier that year and so Mbasogo was aware of what was coming. The coup plotters put together some sort of fuckabout-plan of getting weapons into ZImbabwe and then picking them up at the airport and flying them to EG. The South Africans tipped Mugabe off.

Mugabe was rightly concerned that a British guy was arriving in his country with an armed force and arrested them all at Harare. South Africa wanted a lucrative deal for oil and didn't want Spain to get any of it. All global fun and games.

Simon Mann went to prison in Zimbabwe, then extradited to EG and got tortured, which is far and away the most excellent thing to have happened. Marky-Mark and Big Jeff Archer walked away relatively unscathed, which is a bit rubbish.

Bunch of wrong-uns the lot of them.