• Robert Denard (born Gilbert Bourgeaud;: 133  7 April 1929 – 13 October 2007) was a French mercenary. He served as the de facto military leader of the Comoros...
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  • Mister Bob is a 2011 French drama film directed and co-scripted by Thomas Vincent. The film follows the exploits of the French mercenary Bob Denard in the...
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  • mercenary Bob Denard. Denard's fourth Comorian coup, which he called Operation Kaskari, occurred in the early hours of 28 September 1995. Denard and 33 hand-picked...
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    Denard Xavier Robinson (born September 22, 1990) is an American former professional football player and a former staff member for the Jacksonville Jaguars...
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    Bob Denard. 13 May 1978: President Ali Soilih was overthrown by Ahmed Abdallah and Bob Denard, resulting in his killing thirteen days later; Denard became...
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    Mohamed Jaffar, whose adherents were barely armed, hired French mercenary Bob Denard to overthrow Ahmed Abdallah. Soilih officially became President of the...
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    L'ancien mercenaire Bob Denard est mort Archived 4 January 2017 at the Wayback Machine, Le Figaro, 14 October 2007. (in French) Bob Denard, chien de guerre...
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    French policies in Africa. Furthermore, at his trial in 2006, mercenary Bob Denard, who was tried for his 1995 coup d'état in the Comoros, alleged that Foccart...
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  • fatalities, it was disbanded in May 1978. Forces led by one of its members, Bob Denard, later that month executed a coup d'état in the Comoros with French, Rhodesian...
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  • Stockwell spent six years in Africa, Chief of Base in the Katanga during the Bob Denard invasion in 1968, then Chief of Station in Bujumbura, Burundi in 1970...
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    him. Although Denard was also injured, it is suspected that Abdallah's killer was a soldier under his command. A few days later, Bob Denard was evacuated...
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  • Bob Denard overthrew Ahmed Abdallah. May 23, 1978: Ahmed Abdallah and Bob Denard overthrew Ali Soilih. November 26, 1989: Said Mohamed Djohar and Bob...
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  • rights in Israel, Palestinian National Authority and the Middle East Bob Denard – French mercenary. Jeffrey Mark Deskovic – served 15-year wrongful imprisonment...
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    1977  People's Republic of Benin 1977 Benin coup attempt Mathieu Kérékou Bob Denard Coup failure 10 July 1978  Mauritania 1978 Mauritanian coup d'état Moktar...
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  • be over. Faulques continued his mercenary career, alongside his friend Bob Denard, first being deployed in North Yemen from August 1963 to the end of 1964...
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    Paris, France) was the nominal leader of the coup staged by mercenary Bob Denard on 13 May 1978. After Said Atthoumani had served as "Chairman of the Politico-Military...
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  • However, the regime faced problems. A French mercenary by the name of Bob Denard, arrived in the Comoros at dawn on 13 May 1978, and removed Soilih from...
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    Comoros. Soilih, whose adherents were barely armed, hired French mercenary Bob Denard to overthrow Ahmed Abdallah. He officially became President of the revolutionary...
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    killed and Ahmed Abdallah came to power. Under the reign of Abdallah, Bob Denard was commander of the Presidential Guard (PG) and de facto ruler of the...
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    Kasa-Vubu, who later dismissed him from his position. During this period, Bob Denard commanded the French-speaking "6 Commando." "Black Jack" Schramme commanded...
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  • Belgian settler/mercenary named Jean Schramme with fellow mercenaries Bob Denard and Jerry Puren (all 3 had fought for Tshombe in Katanga and the Congo)...
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    Soilih, who had been brought to power in a coup d'état organised by Bob Denard. After Denard reinstated the previous president, Ahmed Abdallah, Djohar's political...
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    1977, an attempted coup, called Operation Shrimp, led by the mercenary Bob Denard and supported by France, Gabon, and Morocco failed and it helped to harden...
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    easy way to extricate itself from that situation. The future mercenary Bob Denard was convicted in 1954 and sentenced to fourteen months in prison for an...
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  • in a 1975 coup, and in 1978 the SDECE hired Bob Denard to stage a coup. On the night of 13 May 1978, Denard and 42 other mercenaries landed on Grande Comore...
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  • mercenaries contracted by a group of exiled Beninese political rivals. Bob Denard was the leader of the mercenary group and although Jacques Foccart denied...
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    made his military service in the Fusiliers marins in 1924. Mercenary Bob Denard served as a fusilier marin during the First Indochina War Actor Alain...
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    channels, increasing awareness of GIGN's existence. Arrest of the mercenary Bob Denard and his group during a coup attempt in 1995 in Comoros (Operation Azalee)...
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    ANC, together with the mercenary commandos led by Jean Schramme and by Bob Denard, had committed to support the plan. Puren refused to take part in the...
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    French Southern and Antarctic Lands. In October 1995, one week after Bob Denard overthrew the government of the Comoros in late September, French commandos...
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