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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/ivory-coast-leader-calls-for-forces.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Alassane Ouattara has called for special forces to remove Ivory Coast's incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-ivory-coast-leader-calls-for-forces.jpg" alt="Alassane Ouattara has called for special forces to remove Ivory Coast's incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>The man most of the world recognises as Ivory Coast&#8217;s new president has called for special forces from West African nations to remove incumbent Laurent Gbagbo.</p>
<p>Alassane Ouattara said Mr Gbagbo&#8217;s location could be quickly identified by a team of elite troops because he &#8220;is essentially at his residence or at the presidential palace&#8221;.</p>
<p>The regional bloc of West African states, ECOWAS, has threatened military action but in recent days leaders have shied away from making a commitment to an armed invasion, fearing mass casualties and a possible return to civil war.</p>
<p>Mr Ouattara said that elite forces have previously carried out similar operations in Latin America and Africa &#8220;to remove the person who is the problem&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;If ECOWAS do send in special forces with the objective of removing Mr Gbagbo, he will be removed, without much damage,&#8221; said Mr Ouattara, who has been running a shadow government under protection of UN peacekeepers.</p>
<p>&#8220;I know Mr Gbagbo. If he sees that ECOWAS troops are coming to capture him, believe me he will start running away. I know him well. He does not have the courage to face those type of situations,&#8221; Mr Ouattara added.</p>
<p>Mr Ouattara maintains that a military operation will not take much time or resources, and that if ECOWAS carries one out, Mr Gbagbo will cave in immediately.</p>
<p>But one of Mr Gbagbo&#8217;s closest supporters warned that any attempt to remove him by force will lead to war.</p>
<p>&#8220;We need to avoid that the Third World War begins in Ivory Coast&#8230; No army in the world can come in and remove our president. It&#8217;s in Abidjan that such a thing can happen,&#8221; said Charles Ble Goude, who heads the Young Patriots, a militia-like organisation.</p>
<p>While the United Nations and other world powers recognise Mr Ouattara as the winner of last year&#8217;s elections, Mr Gbagbo has refused to step down, insisting he won. Mr Gbagbo has been in power for a decade and maintains control of the military. Human rights groups accuse his security forces of killing political opponents.</p>
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