Coups on a shoestring: Fox and Dave play lets kick out Mini Idi Amin
While I was sitting back on Dec. 30/31, 2014 celebrating my 40th birthday (yaay me, still have all my own teeth and hair!), a group of expatriate Gambians were (allegedly, everyone is innocent until proven guilty) fighting for their lives in that West African country’s capital city.
You see a Gambian-born former U.S. Army (SSGT, Service and Support battalion) vet who had also been in the USAF (in a ARW) then went on to be an IT guy in Minnesota, was leading 10-12 other ethnic Gambians in a firefight with AR-15s he smuggled into the country wrapped in blankets from the Frozen Land of 10,000 Lakes.
This leader of these Dogs of War went by the codename “Fox” while the money-man behind the adventure, an investor from Texas and hopeful for the next spot as President of The Gambia, went by the codename “Dave” who allegedly financed the ill-fated op to the tune of $220K.
(Dave’s not here)
The goal was to relieve this guy:
From power.
Here you see one “His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr. Yahya Abdul-Azziz Jemus Junkung Jammeh“, the defacto king dictator President of Gambia since he relieved the last Democratically-elected President of his employment in a 1994 military coup.
In case you haven’t heard of this character, he claims to hold a colonel’s commission in Kentucky, an Admiral’s in Nebraska, threatened to cut of the heads of any homosexuals in the country, claimed he can cure AIDS with bananas, survived a dozen attempts to dethrone him both real and imagined, and has had over 1,000 of his subjects citizens kidnapped re-educated after they were accused of being witches.
Anyway, things didn’t go too well for Fox and Dave who managed to get the fcuk out of the Gambia with their skin while apparently many others did not. However the FBI now has them in custody and the DOJ is throwing the book at them. Seems nobody can take a joke anymore.