held town of Bouake, killing the soldiers. The Ivorian army said it had not meant to bomb the French base in Bouake. France retaliated by destroying two Ivorian Sukhoi fighter jets on the ground at Yamoussoukro airport and then went on to bomb all but one Ivorian military plane, French officials said. On Thursday, Ivorian military commanders broke a more than 1-year-old cease-fire with surprise bombing attacks on rebel positions in the north. Saturday's attack on the French threatened to drag peacekeepers into the civil war in the world's top cocoa producer. In the northwestern Ivorian town of Man, around a thousand protesters hurled Molotov cocktails at French forces, venting anger at what they saw as the former colonial power's slowness to intervene. The United Nations said 20 civilians and two rebels were killed in Friday's strikes alone. --SP 0057 Local Time 2157 GMT
