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Gambia, Senegal Deny Involvement in Attack on Guinea Leader
Tuesday, 13 September 2011 10:56
(Africasia) - Gambia on Monday denied any involvement in an attempted assassination of Guinean President Alpha Conde
in July, after he accused Senegal and Gambia of being complicit in the attack.Conde, in an interview with the private Senegalese radio station Sud FM broadcast on Sunday, said a rocket attack on his home had been plotted in Dakar, and he suspected the two governments were aware of it.
"The Gambia would like to state that it did not have any involvement or prior information surrounding the attempted assassination of the Guinean president," read a statement from the foreign ministry.
In a sign of chilled diplomatic relations, the statement goes on to say Gambia "will not take lightly accusations of this kind especially since this is not the first by Guinea", without further explanation.
The statement also urged Conde "to refrain from making unfounded accusations".
Gambian President Yayha Jammeh often visited former Guinean counterpart Lansana Conte who, like him, took power in a coup and ruled for 24 years until his death in December 2008, which was followed by another military takeover.
Jammeh is also believed to have supported Conde's rival Cellou Dalein Diallo in Guinea's 2010 elections.
Senegal's foreign ministry said Monday the accusations had been "a surprise".
Senegal "was neither involved from near nor from far in this unfortunate event which it has already firmly condemned," the statement said, adding the country had at all times welcomed Guinean politicians, including Conde, with hospitality.
The attack took place in the early hours of July 20, when rogue soldiers opened fire on Conde's residence, blasting it with bazookas and rocket-propelled grenades in a two-hour gun battle.
The president was unhurt but a member of his presidential guard was killed and two others were injured in the attack which rocked the nation just seven months after its first ever democratic election."Everything was prepared in Dakar," said Conde, 73, who accused three men of being among those who plotted the attack at the chic Meridien President Hotel in the north of the Senegalese capital.
All three men he accuses of plotting the attack are allies of General Sekouba Konate, who led a transitional government in 2010.
They are Amadou Bah Oury, number two in the main opposition Guinean Union of Democrats, former minister in the Guinean presidency Tibou Camara "who is always in Gambia" and businessman Amadou Oury Diallo, known as Sadaka.
Camara's wife is related to Gambian first lady Zineb Jammeh, according to the former minister's associates in Guinea.
In the interview, Conde said he had told the Gambian and Senegalese foreign ministers "that things were being planned in the President Hotel in Dakar and there are comings and goings in Gambia and that I don't think this was happening behind their backs.
"I think there is complicity by the Senegalese government and the Gambian government, even if they say they weren't being vigilant."
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This will help ordinary Guineans to understand their Government’s statement an accusation, where keeping quiet could be counterproducti ve; creating animosities between citizens of the three sister states, which could result in a knee-jerk reaction of persecutions, with chained-domino-effects throughout the sub-region. May we continue to witness peace in the region, with “evil planters” like yaya jammeh & cohorts reaping their murderous rewards? AMEEN.
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This is mature & the healthy response states needed doing, in such unfortunate misunderstandin gs if @ all, as it looks like; though, I won’t be surprised if EVIL-yaya jammeh’s involved; from what came to be known with yaya’s PROVEN implications the Iran-MFDC weapon caches shipments, the New Millennium Airline blood diamond weapons shipments with Baba Jobe as proxy to Sierra Leone & Liberian conflicts & the arms shipments under soldiers escorts to Bissau during Ansumana-Nino conflict, etc, etc.
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