Gambian
President Yahya Jammeh, top, survived a coup attempt hatched by several
plotters, including, from left to right on bottom, Njaga Jagne, Alagie
Barrow and Lammin Sanneh. (Top: AP; bottom left: courtesy of the Jagne
family; bottom center: Nick Strocchia; bottom right: courtesy of Jeffrey
W. Meiser)
By Craig Whitlock and Adam Goldman-May 31
MINNEAPOLIS — Every
other Saturday evening, the coup-plotters excused themselves from their
wives and kids to join a conference call. The half-
dozen dissidents — all middle-aged men, most with military experience —
dialed in from their suburban homes scattered across the South and
Midwest.
