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To: Michael Watkins who wrote (152837)	11/29/2004 3:00:14 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 281500

Actually, I believe that would be France: Monday, 29th November 2004/ Liberation Gbagbo wants to pursue France before the international Court of Justice The Ivory Coast should make a complaint Monday against France at the International Court of Justice, for violating defense accords tying the two countries and for the destruction of the Ivorian air force. Three weeks after the violent incidents which set the "patriots" of Larent Gbagbo against French forces, the Abidjan regime does not intend to deal calmly with Paris. On the contrary: the Ivory Coast announced its intention to swear out Monday a complaint before the International Court of Justice at the Hague (the Netherlands) against France for "the violation of defense accords" tying the two countries since 1960, and for the destruction of the Ivorian air force by the French military in the "Licorne" operation, November 6th. The French minister of defense reacted, Sunday, by dismissing in advance this complaint, as well as the jurist bringing it, giving assurance that it will be classified as without merit by the international jurisdiction. On November 6th, French forces, in a few hours, annhilated the Ivorian air fleet following the bombardment of a camp at Bouake, which left nine French soldiers dead. Abidjan continued to pretend that it was a matter of mischance, in any case, not a deliberate act of the air force, as Paris maintained. Paris unleashed reprisals to counter a wave of violence without precedent in Abidjan and other localities in the southern half of the Ivory Coast, launched against the French community, and, generally, against "whites". With the charge of assuring the security of these targets, the French army, but also a number of private European security firms, intervened forcibly against the "patriots" of Gbagbo, causing, according to Abidjan, about sixty deaths and nearly 3,000 wounded. This complaint is witness to the resentiment of the Ivorian regime against Paris, and of the ill- will between the two countries since the insurrection of September 2002. President Gbagbo and his entourage have never, in fact, stomach that France did not kill in the cradle the rebellion which tried to depose the Ivorian head of State in the middle of the night of 18-19 September 2002, before the loss of the northern half of the country. Because of the defense ties between the two countries, the Ivory Coast with its former colonial power, the French army is obliged to intervene in case of external aggression. At the time French diplomacy, directed by Dominic de Villepin, chose to intervene between the rebels, with rear bases in Burkina Faso, and the power in Abidjan to attempt to end the conflict through negotiation. Recently, Laurent Gbagbo affirmed to Liberation that the rebellion was constituted two thirds of foreign combattants, Burkinese or Liberian." liberation.fr