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 JOHANNESBURG (AP) - British mercenary Simon Mann has threatened to settle some old scores after arriving home Wednesday following more than five years in African jails for a failed plot to take over Equatorial Guinea's oil riches.
Some governments may be worried about a vengeful Mann: He testified last year that the U.S. and European governments knew of the 2004 plot in advance and welcomed it, as did international oil companies operating in the small West African nation.
Analysts say that in addition to revenge, Mann's mission probably is part of the deal that won him freedom — to bring to justice the influential financiers who dreamed up the adventure that went so badly awry in the continent's No. 3 oil producer.
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