It seems the tiny military, consisting of 2 planes and 3 heliocopters accidentally dropped a bomb.
The Associated Press
Sunday, November 7, 2004; 8:05 AM
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast - Ivory Coast forces will immediately pull back from front lines, the presidential spokesman said Sunday, after a day of clashes with French peacekeepers that left the West African nation's air force in shreds.
"We are going immediately to pull back to the confidence zone, spokesman Desire Tagro said, referring to a buffer zone manned by French and U.N. peacekeepers between rebel north and loyalist south. Ivory Coast warplanes crossed the buffer zone Saturday, bombing a French peacekeeping position and killing nine French and an American.
Ivory Coast would ask the Security Council for action against France, Tagro said, saying, "We are faced with aggression by one country against another country. We are going to inform the entire world ... that France has come to attack us."
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