Peter McAleese

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Peter McAleese (7 September 1942 – 18 March 2024) was a Scottish former special forces soldier and mercenary who attempted to assassinate Pablo Escobar in the late 1980s. McAleese fought in several Cold War conflicts while serving with elite units such as the British Army's Parachute Regiment and Special Air Service, the Rhodesian Special Air Service and the Selous Scouts branch of the British South Africa Police, and South Africa's 44 Parachute Brigade and 32 Battalion. As a mercenary or private military contractor, he worked in countries including Apartheid South Africa, Angola, Uganda, Colombia, Russia, Algeria and Iraq. McAleese was the author of the book No Mean Soldier and the subject of the 2021 UK documentary film Killing Escobar.

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