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French tanks move in on ivory coast { November 8 2004 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/news/11082004_nw_ivorycoast.html http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/news/11082004_nw_ivorycoast.html French Tanks on Move in Ivory Coast ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST-November 8, 2004 — French tanks took up positions outside the home of Ivory Coast's president Monday, his spokesman said, raising fears of an attempt to oust him as French forces clamped down on an explosion of violence in its former West African colony. Some 50 armored vehicles were moved around the home of President Laurent Gbagbo in Ivory Coast's commercial capital, Abidjan, said presidential spokesman Desire Tagro. "Their presence here is scaring people, they're crying and they think that President Gbagbo is going to be overthrown," Tagro told The Associated Press by telephone. Loyalists were reported streaming into the same neighborhood in a face-off with French forces after a weekend of violent clashes between French peacekeepers and the government and mobs of its supporters. (Copyright 2004 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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