#139b - DEMON FORCES 4, Part Two: KILLING DOE

Dimitri conducts a forensic examination of the Masterminds, the Coincidences, the Puzzles, the Intrigues, and the Deceits surrounding the assassination of Liberian President Samuel Doe on 9/9/90, including:

The US-Chad connection, Bill Casey bloodying Qaddafi’s nose in the Auzou Strip, Chet Crocker and Jim Bishop running guns to Hissene Habré, the 1987 Toyota War, Stingers and TOWs, US-French cooperation and Jean-Christophe “Papamadit” Mitterand…

Taylor allies Moses Duopu and Elmer Johnson killing Sankara, drama in the NPFL leadership, Prince Johnson’s daring commando raid on Gbutuo, Taylor being a SCARY man who depended on LIARS, forming the breakaway INPFL, the mysterious murders of Duopu, Elmer Johnson, Cooper Teah, and Jackson F. Doe inside NPFL territory, Bush’s White House ordering Herman Cohen to not fly Doe into exile, and the emergence of ECOMOG…

Emmanuel Bowier’s futile efforts to convince Doe to leave, realizing The Heat Is On, the secret Israeli code, Doe screaming at Bowier that he’s “gonna die killing white people” if US Marines land onshore, Bowier’s perilous escape from Monrovia on Gus Kouwenhoven’s plane…

Herman Cohen’s surreal meetings with Prince Johnson and Charles Taylor in August, Bob Gates’ “disgusting” proposal to dump Liberian-American refugees in West African tent camps, ECOMOG’s arrival after which “some conspiracies took place”, the Prince Johnson-Doe truce, US military advisors skulking around outside the wire, and Doe’s fateful visit to ECOMOG headquarters on September 9th, 1990…

American novelist Denis Johnson’s haunting dispatch from the Prince Johnson compound after Doe’s death, watching The Video, tracking down the mysterious Sellie Thompson, William Glay’s treachery, Bowier’s numerological premonitions about the “bad days” of 9/9/89 and 9/9/90, and the staggering dracularity of President George Bush’s “new world order” address to Congress on 9/11/90 - just one day after Samuel Doe’s violent death.

MUSIC BY:

Fela Kuti

Savage Republic

Glenn Frey

Ricky Banda

The Funkees

Field Marshal Prince Johnson

Dimitri (synths)