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Edition: U.S. Article Save Email Print Reprints Most Popular Most Shared Six more U.S. banks closed 12:26am EST Obama surprises with Copenhagen summit decision 04 Dec 2009 Firework blaze in Russia nightclub kills at least 103 | Video 7:18am EST The FBI agent inside the Galleon case 04 Dec 2009 Italian court hands Knox 26 years for Briton's murder | Video 6:39am EST Six more U.S. banks closed 12:26am EST Somali sea gangs lure investors at pirate lair 01 Dec 2009 Efforts under way to stem U.S. school dropout problem 02 Dec 2009 The FBI agent inside the Galleon case 04 Dec 2009 Obama surprises with Copenhagen summit decision 04 Dec 2009 Guinea on edge after attack on junta leader Saliou Samb CONAKRY Sat Dec 5, 2009 9:45am EST Related News "El Tigre" guards Guinea for wounded junta chief 7:54am EST Wounded Guinea leader in Morocco after gun attack Fri, Dec 4 2009 FACTBOX - Guinean leader - from "Obama Jr" to pariah Fri, Dec 4 2009 TIMELINE - Soldiers attack Guinea junta leader Fri, Dec 4 2009 INSTANT VIEW: Wounded Guinea junta chief flying to Morocco Fri, Dec 4 2009 CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinea's capital was on edge on Saturday following a botched assassination attempt on the head of the ruling junta, with residents bracing for further violence between out-of-control army factions. World Pickup trucks carrying heavily armed soldiers moved through the quiet streets of the normally bustling city searching for suspects in the attack, with shops open only part-time and most residents staying indoors. "The situation is very dangerous. If the president dies of his injuries, that could open the path to violent conflict in this country. This could even mean ethnic clashes," said Kemoko Kaba, a real estate broker in Conakry. Renegade soldiers on Thursday shot and wounded junta leader Captain Moussa Dadis Camara in a sign of divisions in the army since he took power in a December coup after the death of strongman leader Lansana Conte. Camara was evacuated for medical treatment in Morocco and could require surgery due to multiple gunshot wounds, Burkina Faso President Blaise Campaore, whose presidential plane was used to transport Camara, said on Friday. There was no public update on his health on Saturday. Rising instability in the West African nation, the world's top supplier of aluminum ore bauxite that has moved from crisis to crisis in recent years, threatens to spill over into a region scarred by a rash of civil wars. Residents of Conakry said an aura of fear had descended on the capital since the attack, with concern that Camara's death will trigger open hostility between military factions. "I've seen people previously hostile to Dadis who now say they hope he does not die. Everyone is afraid of that," said Maimanou Bah, a secretary in Conakry. RULE BY GUN Thursday's attack may have stemmed from heavy international pressure on Camara after a brutal crackdown on anti-government protesters on September 28 in which human rights groups said 157 people were killed and scores of women raped. "Camara's attempt to bring those errant soldiers to book triggered the assassination attempt by a leader within the renegade army group, Lieutenant Aboubacar Toumba Diakite," said Sebastian Spio-Garbrah, an analyst for Eurasia Group. Toumba is cited by witnesses as leading the September crackdown on demonstrators, who had gathered in a Conakry stadium to protest against Camara's refusal to opt out of general elections that had been set for January 2010. Despite initial reports that he had been arrested, Toumba was understood to be at large on Saturday. "I've seen people who are happy, and for them Toumba is a hero," said Souleymanne Bah, a street vendor. "This is a strange sentiment because it was Toumba who was at the stadium when the soldiers killed people and raped women." The situation highlights the vicious circle of harsh martial leadership and violent coups in the country -- which borders civil war-scarred Sierra Leone, Liberia and Ivory Coast -- that has tormented its citizens for decades. After independence in 1958, Guinea entered 50 years of brutal rule dominated by the presidencies of revolutionary socialist Ahmed Sekou Toure -- during which tens of thousands of people disappeared or were tortured and executed -- and later strongman Lansana Conte. Throughout the fractured history, a theme of military indiscipline and rule by the gun has held. "If you look at Guinea's history, it is only the army that has proven able to take the political process forward," said Tara O'Connor at Africa Risk Consulting. "So we need to look to the army for the next leader. We only hope they will be more malleable to affecting a transition to civilian rule than the military leaders of the past." 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