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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 .
Mar 20, 2024 · Peter McAleese, who has died aged 81, was a Scottish mercenary with a reputation for reckless courage that was formidable even by the standards of most “soldiers of fortune”; in 1989 he was lured...
- Telegraph Obituaries
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.
Jul 19, 2021 · Peter McAleese was hired by a rival drug cartel to assassinate Pablo Escobar in 1989, but the mission failed and he survived. A BBC documentary tells his story and features his personal archive and interviews.