{"id":57513,"date":"2015-01-07T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T15:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57513"},"modified":"2015-01-06T18:08:41","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T23:08:41","slug":"papa-faal-us-vet-tries-to-invade-gambia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57513","title":{"rendered":"Papa Faal; US vet tries to invade Gambia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chock Block sends us a link to the Daily Beast<\/a> which recounts the story of a former Gambian citizen by the name of Papa Faal who joined the US Air Force and then the US Army. Using that experience, he plotted to overthrow the government of Gambia along with his money man and co-conspirator, Cherno Njie. they transported weapons, ammunition and a small fighting force into Gambia;<\/p>\n

The conspirators were split into two teams, \u201cAlpha\u201d and \u201cBravo.\u201d Alpha was to storm the State House, where they expected the president to be on New Year\u2019s Day, and Bravo was to secure the rear of the building. Their leader, Njie, still going by \u201cDave\u201d during the operation, would stay a safe distance away until the State House was secure.<\/p>\n

As it happened, the coup members found the State House \u201cfortified with additional soldiers.\u201d When an Alpha Team member fired a shot in the air meant to scare off the guards whom they didn\u2019t expect to put up much of a fight, they took \u201cheavy fire from the guard towers.\u201d<\/p>\n

From there the plan went to hell. Alpha Team was killed, Faal told the FBI, while the Bravo members who were not gunned down fled. While Faal and Njie are in U.S. custody, the whereabouts of the other survivors is unknown.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m guessing that they saw Frederick Forsythe’s “The Dogs of War” a few too many times. Three years in the US Infantry probably isn’t enough experience to enable a fellow to take over a small African nation – especially when your whole plan hinges on the enemy not putting up a fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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