Forces loyal prepare Ivory Coast, where French troops have taken over by the airport to Alassane Ouattara for the battle in Abidjan. (Legnan Koula, EPA / 4 April 2011)Reporting of Abidjan, C?te d'Ivoire-Two months ago, the Americans had a quiet s life in New Jersey with his three children, a nice car and his own company. He is now in the war.
But a computer mouse, no trigger strokes his finger. And instead of lots slung belts of ammunition, he swings an e-Mail Inbox full, atrocities.
The Ivorian native returned to his home in the name of democracy. He wound up in the middle of a war between the militias loyal to the two men, the power in this west African State claim: current President Laurent Gbagbo and former opposition leader Alassane Ouattara, the internationally recognised winner of last fall's presidential election.
Many people in Ivory Coast know like to fight. Ouattara's forces have an offensive to take Gbagbo from power started and Sunday's battles intensified in Abidjan, as a commercial centre of the country with people in many areas, not in a position to leave their homes. Heavy fighting continued around the Presidential Palace, the State television station RTI and a military base. Port Bouet airport took over French troops.
But only a handful of technical experts here know the tools of a modern propaganda war: such as a TV channel from scratch established encrypt the enemy TV signal, jam, his radio signal or created a TV satellite connection. And most of them work for Gbagbo.
So, the American, who has a high-tech mobile communications company in the United States, which is active in Africa, the call was given. He would return to Ivory Coast, Ouattara an information war fighting, that he was to lose to help?
The Americans insist on anonymity fear of the violence against his family, some of them in Abidjan, which has seen their narrow dirt alleys become a killing field.
"they are actually trying to figure out, which helps" Ouattara, says the American, 45, the left Ivory Coast for 30 years and is a friend of the President-designate.
Prior to the American on board Ouattara had accused rebels of the massacres no presence on television during Gbagbo the State television station and that the United Nations was guilty of genocide claimed to kill Ivorians conspiracy with France and install an alien, to govern the country. Ouattara's fighter was keeping the station Thursday but Gbagbo's fighters took it back and used on young militia against death for Gbagbo it calls.
Gbagbo has also blocked Pro-Ouattara newspaper distribution and stopped means mobile phone SMS messages - which most people in Africa and organize rallies.
The TV station, radio television ivoirienne, "Helped spur Wheelback" - the abuses by frequent indications of quality to the violence against UN peacekeepers, west African nationals and Ouattara supporters, a March 15 report by human rights watch charged.
"Television," the American says, "is more dangerous than a weapon."
Caught with Ouattara and his Government of Gbagbo forces in Abidjan's Golf Hotel since December the Americans took over a restaurant in the hotel and turned it into a pro-Ouattara television station.
The Americans set up a FM Radio Studio and created a satellite link, more difficult for Gbagbo, scramble as the terrestrial channel.
It is a daily battle of mind signals from broadcasting on the same frequency as Gbagbo's experts try to scramble Ouattara. "I try, the next step assume" he says.
The American flicks through his e-Mail Inbox, his fingers tap the down and until arrows impatiently, until he finds an alert in it with cell phone video loaded by two men down from the tyres and burnt alive as police stand by and watch.
"When this guy dying, he wanted out." "You him again in the fire to put", says the Americans, shows the scene. Then he pulls video of an other atrocity, Pro-Gbagbo militias queries a fear dealers in Northern Ivory Coast and then the head with a brick busting. (Human rights watch has said that both sides have committed atrocities but have been the vast majority of Pro-Gbagbo forces.)
He scrolls down through hundreds of messages, many with such grisly installations.
"It is frightening." It says heartless, "he.""I was here when I was 15 and I saw something like never before."
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