Certainly!  And one of RKipling's best, IMO...

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On Mon, 1/5/15, Craig Berry <cdberry@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Real Life (tm) mimics Traveller...
 To: tml@simplelists.com
 Date: Monday, January 5, 2015, 4:21 PM

 "The
 Man Who Would Be King" by Kipling. Some plots (in both
 senses) never go out of style.
 On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 3:15
 PM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <nobody@simplelists.com>
 wrote:
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 Recently came across this little gem. It could fit right
 into the TU as a Mercenary 'ticket';

 Two Americans Charged In Gambia Coup Plot

 The Justice Department charged two Americans with attempting
 to overthrow the Gambian government in a failed coup last
 week, including a property developer from Austin, Texas, who
 allegedly planned to install himself as the country's
 leader, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

 Cherno Njie, the Texas developer, led and financed the
 effort to oust Gambian President Yahya Jammeh, an FBI agent
 said in an affidavit. But after it was put down by Gambian
 government soldiers, one of the alleged conspirators, Papa
 Faal, a dual American and Gambian citizen living in
 Minnesota, fled to Senegal, where he turned himself in at
 the U.S. embassy. He then explained the plot to the FBI,
 according to the affidavit.

 Both men are charged with violating the Neutrality Act, a
 law that dates from 1794 that makes it illegal for Americans
 to take up arms against a foreign government with which the
 U.S. is at peace. They are expected to appear in court in
 Baltimore and Minnesota today.

 Information on their attorneys wasn't immediately
 available.

 Mr. Faal, who told the FBI he had served in the U.S. Army
 and Air Force, told U.S. law enforcement he decided to join
 the coup because he thought elections were rigged and the
 "plight of the Gambian people," according to the
 affidavit. A group of about a dozen people planned to
 restore democracy to Gambia and hoped to take control
 peacefully, but they thought 160 members of the
 country's military would join them, according to the
 affidavit.

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