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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
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.
Peter McAleese is a Scottish former British Army infantry soldier, with an extensive military career in the conflicts of the latter half of the 20th Century.