I'm not exactly surprised that the CIA informed their torture-buddy Yahya Jammeh of the coup plans, but I am still sickened by it. If you fight evil African dictators, never talk on the phone, never post on social networks.
The [FBI] alerted the State Department, the Post reported, which in turn “secretly tipped off” an unnamed west African country – generally presumed to be Senegal – in the hope that it would intercept Sanneh. The coup plotters suspect that the information instead ended up in Jammeh’s hands. “When we, the people in prison right now, are going through this ordeal, Gambians are thinking: is the US hiding something?” Faal said. Later, after the Post story appeared, Faal added, “I would go so far as saying they killed Njaga. They are responsible for that.”
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I’m failing to see the friendly aspect of this all, save for the fact that Gambia and the Jammeh regime participated with the US in the CIA torture programme,” said Smith.
FBI and State knew about it, so obviously CIA did as well. (Presumably from NSA's extensive domestic monitoring, but I digress...) CIA had a previous relationship with Jammeh from their torture dungeons operated in the Gambia. The presidential guards were lying in ambush and knew the plan and timing of the attempted coup exactly. They only attacked the presidential palace because a planned Jammeh holiday trip to the countryside was cancelled at the last moment. I think we can read between the lines here.
