Posted on 11/19/2004 8:53:17 PM PST by BigRedState
The source for this video is the Ivory Coast's Embassy website http://radioci.embaci.com (it claims to be anyway) which is the group in power in the Ivory Coast that is against French/UN being involved in peacekeeping to end the civil war there. I still have not heard from the poster of this video BigRedState - how did he come across this video - does he visit French African websites a lot?
embaci contact info
Registrant:
DEMBA TRAORE
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1507 TOOZ PLACE
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ US
07080
Registrar: NameSecure.com
Domain: EMBACI.COM
Created on 09-16-2002
Expires on 09-17-2007
Administrative Contact:
DEMBA TRAORE
Phone: 9087568045
E-mail: demba_traore@hotmail.com
Technical Contact:
Demba Traore
Phone: 908 7568860
E-mail: demba_traore@hotmail.com
Name Servers:
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Good find.......
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Wow that guy lives in NJ! So do I!
Haven't seen it Destro, can't say....dial up dilema for me .
i do see injuries in the tapes, but it seems like if there was a massacre you would see blood everywhere. imho, there seems to be too many people shot, and no blood. now, there are some significant wounds and some wounds you can tell are bullet wounds, but if you say 200 injured and 60 wounded, i would expect to see something more. am i talking out of my ass? does anyone else agree with me?
You're joking...right?
Yes! Its me! Give me a break..
If it was me id pay the extra $9.00 and have a private reg via networksolutions.
Who did the shooting?
Good question- anyone got a link that gives this context?
thats a good point too, i dont think you see any smoke coming from the french guns. wouldnt the video show smoke after all those rounds went off? in the first video i noticed that there were people running past the barriers (between the barriers and the barbed wire where the french are) right before the shooting starts.
I don't want to look at the video bot I have been to the Ivory Coast web site and there is as I said a time line that describes the events of that weekend ,nov.5-6. These events are noy ih question, the French did destroy whatever air force Ivory Coast had. It is also not disputed that they opened fire on civilians that were charging the presidential palace. Whether the video truly reflects these events or have been doctored I cannot say. But as to the events themselves they are not in dispute, they were reported that week end by all usual sources. AP AFP etc.
There is also a french forum that discusses the video, and they seem to believe its accuracy.
The destruction of the Ivory Coast air force was prompted by the death of 8 french soldiers-peace keepers when they were caught in a bombing raid conducted by the government of Ivory Coast on rebel postions. The government is christian, the rebels are muslims.
(Yes I speak french)
The reports stated 8 dead,300 injured.
Also - if you got that far - the body with the head blown off. What type of weapon could do that? Surely not a rifle...?
Thanks!
Not saying it is you - only you visit that website - a site only Ivorians would visit - and immigrant communities tend to cluster around together so you living in the same state as the website owner is no stretch. Again I ask - how did you stumble on a French-African website?
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