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As relations worsen between President Laurent Gbagbo and Prime Minister Seydou Diarra, a coup plot is no great surprise. But the plotters, a group of mercenaries led by veteran troublemaker Staff Sergeant Ibrahim Coulibaly ('IB'), were arrested not in Abidjan but by French security agents at Paris's Méridien Montparnasse hotel and Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport....

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Keywords:

Laurent Gbagbo, Seydou Diarra, Ibrahim Coulibaly, French, Henri Konan Bédié, Burkina Faso, Blaise Compaoré, Alassane Ouattara, Guillaume Soro, Mouvement Patriotique de la Côte d'Ivoire

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