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To: Bucky Katt who wrote (10546)	2/7/2003 4:02:18 PM
From: Bucky Katt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 48461

Bailing out the French, again? ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- The United States sent a small military team to conflict-torn Ivory Coast on Wednesday, and France announced it was increasing its force to more than 3,000 troops, amid often violent protests against a Paris-brokered peace accord. In the latest of more than two weeks of protests, 10,000 government supporters massed in front of the French Embassy to vent their outrage at a French-brokered peace plan that they say gives too much to rebels who hold more than half the country. The U.S. team of about 20 men, wearing bulletproof vests and a mix of uniforms and civilian clothes, arrived at Abidjan's international airport in an Air Force transport plane. A U.S. Embassy official said the men were a "military advisory team . . . in Abidjan to monitor the situation with us." Almost all Western nations have urged their citizens to leave Ivory Coast, where attacks on foreigners have mounted in the West African nation's 4-month-old civil war. U.S. authorities last week urged remaining Americans to prepare for a possible evacuation. Wednesday's rally at the embassy was peaceful, with protesters mixing lyrics from reggae songs with anti-French slogans. "Chirac, assassin!" some cried, denouncing French President Jacques Chirac. Stores and banks in the central business district barred their doors Wednesday for fear the rally would turn violent. Other rallies have escalated into riots, with protesters burning tires, setting up roadblocks and attacking foreigners. The deal, reached Jan. 24 in Paris after two weeks of talks, is meant to end the civil war in the world's largest cocoa-producing nation. Loyalists are angered by rebel claims that the peace deal gives them control of the Interior and Defense Ministries. Rebel groups have sought to overthrow President Laurent Gbagbo, accusing him of fanning ethnic hatred. The civil war has killed hundreds and uprooted more than 1 million, and recent weeks of protests in Abidjan, the commercial capital, have sent hundreds of Westerners fleeing. Ivory Coast's rebels were expected to hold their own meeting with Kufuor in Ghana on Thursday, an official in Kufuor's office said. Meanwhile, the UN human-rights agency said Wednesday that it had evidence connecting death squads to the government. Bodies of executed people have been found in a forest in Abidjan, and death squads have lists of people to be targeted, according to a report compiled after a top envoy visited Ivory Coast in December. The 28-page report said "the death squads are made up of elements close to the government, the presidential guard and a tribal militia of the president's ethnic group." chicagotribune.com

To: Bucky Katt who wrote (10546)	2/7/2003 4:26:18 PM
From: tsigprofit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 48461

Turkey - found this: story.news.yahoo.com