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To: koan who wrote (87666)	4/25/2012 7:37:32 PM
From: Farmboy	Respond to of 89467

First, I was in Congo, Brazzaville, not the Democratic Progressive Peoples' Socialist Marxist Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire). Second, I left in 1991 ... and things on both sides of the river were fairly calm then. The worst I ever heard as far as anyone in our embassy being victimized was one attempt to break in an American residence, which was unsuccessful, and one person who fronted money to a local to buy African art ... and of course was deservedly ripped off. Things got bad on both sides of the river (Congo and Zaire) a few months after I left. The worst problem in the country was AIDS.