"We can already rule out a terrorist attack," says Abderaman Koulamallah, Chad government spokesman, the day after an 'attack' on the presidential palace which killed 18 assailants and two soldiers. "It's an attack that could never have jeapordized the security of the presidential institution or the security of the government," he adds. President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno was inside the palace at the time of the attack, the motive for which remains unclear. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES