CIA Looking For Oil In Africa?:

When Zimbabwean officials found a team of international mercenaries with a planeful of undeclared military equipment, the fallout was always going to be interesting. And confusing. Like the USA, the Zimbabwean government has a serious credibility problem.

It is now being claimed that the troops were headed for Equatorial Guinea, a small oil-producing central African state about 3000km away.

'They were aided by the British secret service, that is MI6, (the) American Central Intelligence Agency and the Spanish secret service,' Zimbabwe's Home Affairs Minister Kembo Mohadi told a news conference.

Associates of the 60 men arrested, mostly South Africans, Angolans and Namibians, say they are innocent mine guards. But after years of civil war, those countries are now heavily involved in the international trade in mercenaries. If they are NOT miners, the big questions will be: who hired them?

The fact that Equatorial Guinea possesses oil may be a significant pointer.