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U.S. Forces Were Training the Guinean Soldiers Who Took Off to Stage a Coup
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Sep 26, 2021 12:20pm |
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| Author | Declan Walsh and Eric Schmitt |
| News Date | Thursday, September 16, 2021 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | NAIROBI, Kenya — American Green Berets were training local forces in the West African nation of Guinea last weekend when their charges peeled away for a mission not listed in any military training manual: They mounted a coup.
Gunfire rang out as an elite Guinean Special Forces unit stormed the presidential palace in the capital, Conakry, early Sunday, deposing the country’s 83-year-old president, Alpha Condé. Hours later a charismatic young officer, Col. Mamady Doumbouya, announced himself as Guinea’s new leader.
The Americans knew him well.
A team of about a dozen Green Berets had been in Guinea since mid-July to train about 100 soldiers in a special forces unit led by Colonel Doumbouya, who served for years in the French Foreign Legion, took part in American military exercises and was once a close ally of the president he overthrew.
The United States, like the United Nations and the African Union, has condemned the coup, and the U.S. military has denied having any advance knowledge of it. |
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