IVORY Coast’s military ruler General Robert Guei has rejected suggestions that soldiers who attacked his home in an apparent assassination attempt last month had been tortured or killed. Guei also denounced what he called plots to win power in the West African country by creating disorder. Guei, who plans to contest an October 22 presidential election to restore civilian rule, said he had banned political leaders from travelling abroad because of the plots but said normal political activity would resume once campaigning began. Asked whether any of the attackers had been summarily executed after their arrest, he side-stepped the question and blamed the fugitive number two of the ruling military junta, General Lassana Palenfo, for anything that may have happened. – Reuters