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Mar 21, 2024 · While living in Hereford, Peter McAleese was hired by a rival Colombian drug cartel to lead a small team of ex-special forces commandos on a mission to kill Pablo Escobar, the notorious...
Mar 22, 2024 · While living in Hereford, Peter McAleese was hired by a rival Colombian drug cartel to lead a small team of ex-special forces commandos on a mission to kill Pablo Escobar, the notorious Colombian drug lord in 1989.
McAleese, in severe pain from broken ribs, was forced into hiding in the mountains for three days while Escobar’s men, tipped off about the operation, searched for him and his colleagues.
Mar 7, 2021 · In the film McAleese says that as a young soldier he was vehemently anti-communist and that communist ideology was perceived as the big threat in his day. In a very different world now what did he see as the biggest threats, organised crime like that undertaken by Escobar, or global terrorism?
Tasked with killing Pablo Escobar, Peter McAleese dared and was supremely confident he would win. The former SAS soldier’s plan to eliminate the world’s most notorious cocaine trafficker at his compound in the Colombian jungle was simple. First he would kill the watchtower guards using a helicopter.
Apr 22, 2021 · A FILM retelling the true story of an East End mercenary’s bid to kill Pablo Escobar is to be shown on the BBC next month. Killing Escobar uses never-before-seen footage to bring Peter McAleese’s doomed escapade to life and features accounts from a host of figures involved in the 1989 raid.
Peter McAleese (7 September 1942 – 18 March 2024) was a Scottish soldier and mercenary. McAleese served in the British Army 's Parachute Regiment and Special Air Service (SAS), the Rhodesian Special Air Service and British South Africa Police , and South Africa's 44 Parachute Brigade .
