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Thu 01 Jan 2011Dwyer 'second in command' of group, says cable
A BOLIVIAN government minister told foreign diplomats that Irishman Michael Dwyer was the “second in command” of a group of alleged mercenaries, days after he and two colleagues were shot dead by police on April 16th, 2009.
In a briefing at the presidential palace in La Paz, then-minister of government Alfredo Rada also claimed the 24-year-old Tipperary man had “military and security experience”, according to a US diplomatic cable recounting details of the briefing and since published by the WikiLeaks website.
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