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I am sending the e-mail below from one of my sources in the Gambia unedited.

Ebrima Ceesay
Birmingham, UK

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>Subject: YAHYA JAMMEH IS BOTH A BUTCHER AND A LIAR
>Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 14:33:18 GMT
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>Ebrima,
>Please ignore my message of yesterday on the AFRPC/APRC thuggery and
>terrorism displayed on Saturday and Sunday in and around the Basse area
>because it has been adequately reported by Saihou Mballow and others. By
>way of an up-date, reports reaching me in Banjul, and partly reported in
>today's papers, is that Ousainou, Yaya Jallow, Waa Juwara and the entire
>entourage are now save and not under arrest, as some feared. They are
>expected in Banjul later in the day.  Yahya and his disgraced Government
>may be stupid, but not crazy, to arrest the UDP leadership for terrorist
>acts committed by Baba Jobe, his brother the Assistant Commissioner, URD,
>Momodou "Pika" Jallow who was involved in the kidnapping of Shyngle Nyassi,
>and a bunch of nonentities-cum-Libyian trained third rate terrorist. AN
>ARREST TANTAMOUNTS TO CIVIL UNREST WHOSE MAGNITUDE NEVER SEEN BEFORE IN THE
>GAMBIA. As Ousainou said, if the UDP were a violent Party as the APRC, most
>of those hudlums who ambushed the UDP entourage would have been killed.
>Despite this blatant act of terrorism, provoked by these thugs, and
>command-controlled from Kanilai, with Baba Jobe and his brother acting as
>field commanders in Basse, The Observer managed to put yet another spin to
>the story by suggesting that the Julangel and Jimara skirmishes last Friday
>was over the raising of the green flag of the APRC.  Ebrima, that is a lie
>and it is about time that Amadou Samba be told that his constant peddling
>of dis-information to the gambian people must stop and MUST STOP NOW. The
>skirmish was not a skirmish but an attempt by the APRC thugs to prevent the
>UDP from having their rally in exercise of their democratic right.  The
>APRC did not want the meeting to proceed because of the prominent people of
>Julangal and Jimara who came out in full force to support the party of
>their choice.  AMADOU SAMBA , PLEASE STOP PEDDLING LIES TO THE GAMBIAN
>PEOPLE.
>Why did you fail to tell your readers what Alieu Njie, the dead APRC
>supporter and employee of the BAC, was doing, driving a Basse Area Council
>vehicle full of thugs and murderers, armed to the teeth including  Alieu
>himself(according to my APRC sources) transporting these people from
>village to village to intimidate Gambians who are going about exercising
>their democratic right. There were two Basse area Council vehicles involved
>,and not one as reported by The Observer.  Where is the other vehicle,
>Amadou Samba?  The one confiscated from the banned PPP and shamelessly
>driven around by your APRC Government.
>Yaya is also a liar.  At the tractor presentation ceremony, he said that
>the problems of the farmers, i.e. non-payment of their groundnuts has been
>resolved and that "every butut has been paid".  I say to Yahya, "That is a
>lie, a damn lie".  Why don't you go to the farmers, as Ousainou is doing,
>and tell them that you owe them nothing from last year and this year's
>groundnut produce. The farmers are still owed over 40 million dalasi, part
>of which you, Baba and your cronies pocketed. You are a pathological liar,
>jamus. The "groundnut problem" as you called it did not start with the PPP
>regime.  The problem started the day Baba Jobe led a bunch of un-educated,
>ill-desciplined paratroopers to the premises of GCC, a
>legitimately-acquired property belonging to ALIMENTA and occupied it
>illegally.  That's when your "groundnut problem started and not "when the
>former government cheaply sold the Denton Bridge facility to a company
>which was trying to bring hardship to the farmers." BLAME YOURSELF, BABA
>JOBE AND YOUR INEPT GOVERNMENT FOR THE MESS AND NOT THE PPP REGIME AND/OR
>ALIMENTA. Your new Attorney General wants to go to court with ALIMENTA, let
>him try. My advise to you is try and resolve the Louis Diaz mess before you
>take on ALIMENTA.
>Ebrima, "these people" will go.  YAHYA WILL BE THROWN OUT OF OFFICE.  THE
>GAMBIAN PEOPLE HAVE SUFFERED ENOUGH.
>

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