Guinea-Bissau 'foils coup' in bloody crackdown

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Source: AFP via Google hosted news

Guinea-Bissau soldiers killed Friday a presidential candidate and a former minister accused of plotting a coup, just three months after the troubled African nation's president was assassinated.

Territorial administration minister Baciro Dabo, a candidate in the June 28 election, and former defence minister Helder Proenca were considered close to the president Joao Bernardo Vieira, who was killed by the army in March.

The interior ministry said Dabo and Proenca were killed when security forces tried to arrest them over charges that they were among nine coup plotters led by Proenca.

Separately, a hospital source said the body of former prime minister Faustino Fudut Imbali had also been brought in with bullet wounds.

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[cosmicone]

1. The question is ....

Which oil companies are involved in the coup-contre coup here?

[imdjh]

2. Looks like they should have stayed a colony.

Oil - production:

0 bbl/day (2007 est.)
Oil - consumption:

2,520 bbl/day (2006 est.)
Oil - exports:

0 bbl/day (2005)
Oil - imports:

2,560 bbl/day (2005)
Oil - proved reserves:

0 bbl (1 January 2006 est.)
Natural gas - production:

0 cu m (2007 est.)
Natural gas - consumption:

0 cu m (2007 est.)
Natural gas - exports:

0 cu m (2007 est.)
Natural gas - imports:

0 cu m (2007 est.)
Natural gas - proved reserves:

0 cu m (1 January 2006 est.)

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3. All of the signs of another American style "democracy" in Africa. N/T