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Mar 28, 2024 · Peter McAleese, the mercenary soldier who took part in a daring attempt to kill the Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar, has died at the age of 81. The Scot led a team of British mercenaries who ...
Mar 6, 2021 · As well as the mission McAleese opens up about his marriage and how he struggled to make his family life work. Glasgow actor Paul Donnelly portrays McAleese during the film “He’s led an extraordinary life and gone through a great deal of personal struggle,” said David. “A lot of that came to the fore during that time in Colombia.”
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Mar 28, 2024 · Peter McAleese, the mercenary soldier who took part in a daring attempt to kill the Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar, has died at the age of 81. ... Filmmaker David Whitney said McAleese, who ...
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. McAleese, who grew up in Riddrie, was tasked with ...
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Jan 17, 2021 · Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar. IN a tale that sounds stranger than fiction, a man hardened by a violent upbringing in the East End of Glasgow was hired to kill Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar. Now the remarkable story of gun-to-hire Peter McAleese is to be told in a dramatic documentary which will receive its world premiere at Glasgow ...
Mar 7, 2021 · Shot in docudrama style with many of the actual events re-enacted by actors, it tells the picaresque and sometimes blundering tale of how McAleese is hired by the Colombian Cali drug cartel to muster and train a group of fellow mercenaries and undertake a mission to kill the infamous rival Medellin cartel drug baron, Pablo Escobar.
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Mar 18, 2021 · Peter McAleese, right, has told the story of his extraordinary attempt to kill Pablo Escobar. A FORMER SAS operative who was tasked with assassinating the world's biggest drug baron is part of a ...
