Former SAS Soldier Peter McAleese Has Died Aged 81.

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SAS hero soldier turned mercenary Peter McAleese was once recruited to assassinate Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.

Photo courtesy of Peter McAlesse Facebook.

Peter McAleese was a Scottish former soldier and mercenary. He served in the British Army's Parachute Regiment and Special Air Service, the Rhodesian Special Air Service and British South Africa Police, and South Africa's 44 Parachute Brigade.

Special forces hardman, Peter McAleese led a crack team of rogue black ops troops during a deadly mission to kill the notorious cartel chief in 1989.

Once he left Britain's famed SAS, he was offered a staggering $1million to deliver Escobar's head.

However, the attempt to raid Escobar's fortress estate failed spectacularly when his helicopter crashed over the Andes, killing the pilot and leaving McAleese critically injured on the mountaintop for three days before being rescued, back in 1989.

In later life Peter became an author publishing 2 books "No Mean Soldier" and "McAleese's Fighting Manual"

His death was announced last night on his official social media accounts Peter McAleese with the following statement;

"𝙄𝙩’𝙨 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙖𝙣 𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙩𝙮 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙄 𝙧𝙚𝙜𝙧𝙚𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙞𝙣𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙤𝙣 𝙈𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙖𝙮 𝙖𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙤𝙤𝙣 𝙋𝙚𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙈𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙚𝙚𝙨𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙩𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝙙𝙪𝙩𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙤𝙛𝙛 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙞𝙜 𝙧𝙚𝙤𝙧𝙜 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙠𝙮. 𝙄’𝙢 𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙄 𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙠 𝙤𝙣 𝙗𝙚𝙝𝙖𝙡𝙛 𝙤𝙛 𝙢𝙖𝙮 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙄 𝙨𝙖𝙮 𝙋𝙚𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙖 𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙧 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖 𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙡𝙚𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙩𝙨, 𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝 𝙋𝙚𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙙𝙞𝙙𝙣’𝙩 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙖 𝙡𝙚𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙙, 𝙞𝙩’𝙨 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙖𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙢𝙪𝙘𝙝 𝙤𝙛 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙟𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙮 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙡𝙚𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙖𝙧𝙮, 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙢𝙚 𝙄’𝙢 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙝𝙞𝙢 𝙢𝙮 𝙛𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙙. 𝙎𝙡𝙚𝙚𝙥 𝙬𝙚𝙡𝙡 𝙗𝙪𝙙𝙙𝙮, 𝙠𝙚𝙚𝙥 𝙨𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙚𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙙𝙖𝙮 𝙅𝙤𝙚"