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| Africa: West |
| Ivory Coast Uncovers Assassins’ Plot |
| 2003-10-31 |
| Another one? Cheeze. Authorities uncovered a plot to assassinate the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in Ivory Coast, officials in the West African nation said Friday. The plotters want to kill Cardinal Bernard Agre and other unidentified political and religious leaders to portray the administration of President Laurent Gbagbo as ineffectual and unable to protect the public, Minister of Security Martin Bleou said on state television. It is, you don’t have to kill anybody to do that. They are "trying to plunge Ivory Coast into chaos," Bleou said. "The government demands that these individuals regain their self-control and abandon this project." That’ll work, thanks alot, Bleou. Bleou didn’t provide details of the plot or say if any arrests have been made. Police carrying assault rifles could be seen spreading out around St. Paul’s Cathedral, where Agre lives and works in Abidjan, Ivory Coast’s commercial capital. "It shocks me," said an official at the cathedral, Marie Lobouet, of the reported plot. "We are praying to God that this will not happen." Ivory Coast’s rebels and government in July declared an official end to the former French colony’s nine-month civil war, which was triggered by a failed Sept. 2002 attempt to oust Gbagbo. But the country remains tense — and divided between a rebel-held, predominantly Muslim north and a government-held south, peopled primarily by Christians and those practicing indigenous faiths. Gee, now which side do you suppose was going to kill the Cardinal? |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #6 RC - from a semi-lapsed (read lazy) Catholic - the un-PC is welcome...they aren't the same, or when was Mohammad last referred to as the "Prince of Peace"? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-10-31 7:08:50 PM |
| #5 Well, I'm a lapsed Catholic turned agnostic, so I'm not the best person to ask. But, in general, I think if people are going to profess to a religion, they should practice it. One thing that's come clear over the last couple of years -- Allah is not the same god as Yahweh and God. The sooner Christians and Jews realize that, and the sooner everyone else realizes what the Muslims are trying to do, the sooner we can end this war. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2003-10-31 5:47:48 PM |
| #4 I've got a gut feeling the next Bishop of Rome is either gonna come from Sub Saharan Africa or Latin America. JPII IMHO is the one that put the nail in the coffin of the USSR at least as far as Europe is concerned. He is the one that gave the Poles the courage to stand up to Moscow. Lech Welensa followed his lead and the rest of Eastern Europe followed lech and Solidarity. If we have an African or Hispanic pope it will be a major factor in the next twenty years of world politics providing he is not too old at the time of his election. |
| Posted by: Cheddarhead 2003-10-31 5:47:36 PM |
| #3 Robert, have you ever noticed that Christianity seems to grow better in places where it isn't watered down and wishy-washy. When Christian churches try to tone down the message to make it more PC, fewer people attend church. Maybe I've swapped the cause and effect. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2003-10-31 4:38:32 PM |
| #2 Gee, now which side do you suppose was going to kill the Cardinal? Oh! Oh! I know! Is it the same cult that has threatened to kill the Pope? |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2003-10-31 12:19:34 PM |
| #1 I hope the next pope comes from Africa; their clergy are hard core. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2003-10-31 12:09:03 PM |