"Charlie Choc" wrote in message
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On 28 Mar 2004 02:54:29 -0800, (riverman) wrote:

I'll keep you all informed. This is kinda exciting. :-)

Take care Myron, there is such a thing as too much excitement you
know.


That's for sure. Now that the sun is up, it feels safer (last night, in the
dark, it was a bit scary) but no one knows what will be happening tonight.
The government is contradicting itself (of course) with its claims that 'the
uprising is under control' and 'there is still sporadic fighting downtown'.
Parents are calling, saying that their respective embassies are telling them
to stay home, stay down. The rumor mill is refining the stories: apparently
a rebel faction associated with one of the Vice Presidents is trying to
destabilize the government. There were 4 simultaneous attacks on military
bases last night, one of which was outside our gates. According to a contact
in the South African embassy who lives by the river, some political
prisoners were broken out of jail last night and a small force attacked the
UN compound. I don't know the truth of either of those stories, but a high
contact in the US embassy said that the assailants were associated with one
of the VPs who was a Mobutu sympathizer. If so, this might be the start of
something big.

M