[James Casbolt]

When the Zimbabwe elections came and Robert Mugabe came in, the rlimoved en-masse into South Africa, my friend then joined the 44 parachute battalion ( pathfinders ) in the SA army, the rhodesian war of independence was over but many RLI wanted to carry on fighting, he went through all the basic training again, the guy who was training them was SAS legend Peter McEleese, Peter is still very active today and has seen action in virually every threatre of war we have, Peter did Afghanistan to death, Peter is on some kind of advisory commitee and briefs top military people, apprantly Peter left the SAS ( officialy anyway ) and was then involved in the Angolan mercenary fiasco with Colonel Callan, When Callen lost control of that Peter took control, after that he went into the Rhodesian SAS in C squadron, then ended up as a sargeant in pathfinders, he trained my friend to British SAS standard, friend then saw action in Angola against commuinist backed solidere again- chinese, russian and central american soldiers, he says he later discovered these forces were controlled by the same people who controlled his own forces- ET connection here, his year stint came to an end and one of his friends was reading the american 'soldier of fortune' magazine , in the back those days they advertised for mercs, they found one ad that said "high rates of pay- south america", the two of them went to bangkok and had a couple of weeks holiday there and then flew to Bogota, columbia, they ended up in medellin working for a local counsiler as bodyguards and hitmen, it quickly transpired who this man was- Pable Escobar! but thats another story