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Recently came across this little gem. It could fit right into the TU as a Mercenary 'ticket';
Two Americans Charged In Gambia Coup Plot
The Justice Department charged two Americans with attempting to overthrow the Gambian government in a failed coup last week, including a property developer from Austin, Texas, who allegedly planned to install himself as the country's leader, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Cherno Njie, the Texas developer, led and financed the effort to oust Gambian President Yahya Jammeh, an FBI agent said in an affidavit. But after it was put down by Gambian government soldiers, one of the alleged conspirators, Papa Faal, a dual American and Gambian citizen living in Minnesota, fled to Senegal, where he turned himself in at the U.S. embassy. He then explained the plot to the FBI, according to the affidavit.
Both men are charged with violating the Neutrality Act, a law that dates from 1794 that makes it illegal for Americans to take up arms against a foreign government with which the U.S. is at peace. They are expected to appear in court in Baltimore and Minnesota today.
Information on their attorneys wasn't immediately available.
Mr. Faal, who told the FBI he had served in the U.S. Army and Air Force, told U.S. law enforcement he decided to join the coup because he thought elections were rigged and the "plight of the Gambian people," according to the affidavit. A group of about a dozen people planned to restore democracy to Gambia and hoped to take control peacefully, but they thought 160 members of the country's military would join them, according to the affidavit.
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