In an e-mail to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Norman (Sandy) Babcock, and other friends and family, she said the events began to unfold Sept. 19 in Abidjan, Bouake and Korhogo, apparently by angry, essentially fired soldiers of a particularly branch of the military that was originated under Gen. Robert Guei, who initiated the 1999 coupe d'etat in Cote d'Ivoire.