Ahmed's military coup

Ahmed has attempted to stage what might be the world's worst military coup.

12:19 13 July 2004

Ahmed has attempted to stage what might be the world's worst military coup.

Bored of taking orders as the Big Brother military task rolls on he decided he would become a sergeant - completely unaware that if the task was failed this would mean he faces eviction.

To enact his wicked scheme he decided - rather than use the fact that the privates outnumber the sergeants three-to-one, or any form of violent or non-violent direct action - to tell Michelle he had to take the jacket into the Diary Room.

Michelle, having heard no announcement from the Big Brigadier, said she would take it herself.

Rather than weave a web of lies and deceit the Somali-born housemate then admitted he wanted the uniform for reasons he could not tell her.

"Why will you not give it to me?" he pleaded.

"It's for you to tell me why you want it," Michelle told him - she is his superior after all.

Outmanoeuvred by her interrogation tactics his deception crumbled: "Because I am doing a military coup. I will be sergeant. You will be private."

Stuart, cottoning on, ran to get help for his favourite soldier. He woke Jason telling him: "The other sergeant needs your help with a military coup please."

Back at the scene of the revolt Michelle was more than holding her own when Jason arrived.

Ahmed's arguments that if he became sergeant he would be able to do nothing and Michelle would have to work, seemed to have no impact at all on the group.

"It's not going to happen," Michelle explained.

Jason, reckoning his odds of survival were better in a group of six than two, said: "You can take my position if you want."

But Ahmed wanted Michelle's jacket.

"I've been patient with [Michelle] for 44 days," he claimed. "She shouted at me when I was sick and I couldn't shout back."

The Big Brigadier did not allow this, however.