aptopix EQUATORIAL GUINEA COUP PLOT

In this video image made available Wednesday Nov. 4, 2009 British coup-plotter Simon Mann, right foreground, smiles in the courtroom after shaking hands with court officials following his pardon by the government in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea Tuesday Nov. 3, 2009. Mann was released from prison Tuesday along with four South African mercenaries. They were given a presidential pardon for their part in a foreign-bankrolled conspiracy to overthrow the government and take over the country's oil riches. (AP Photos/APTN)
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