Barkeep, casualty's dowager depict slaughter at Ivory Coast beach

The executioners arrived driving a dark Ford vehicle. They communicated in English and a remote dialect. They were perfect shaven. They wore dull pants and decent shoes, and they weren't from the Ivory Coast.

Jean describes his story at a well used out table in a Grand-Bassam lodging as paramilitary police furnished with AK-47s and rocket launchers languidly watch the shoreline.

Jean is excessively anxious, making it impossible to utilize his genuine name. He grasps his dreadlocked head as he talks.

"I offered them some assistance with carrying two overwhelming packs into my bar," he says. "They got some information about the music and ladies." It was all the while morning, hours before the assault, when the executioners resulted in these present circumstances prevalent weekend beachside spot.

In promulgation discharges, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb hailed the men who killed no less than 19 individuals in Sunday's assault at the Grand-Bassam shoreline resort as saints and "knights of the desert."