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Re: Gambia Holds Man Over Suspected Plot on U.S. Envoy
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ALEX LAGIA REDD <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 12 Jan 2003 14:40:06 -0600
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Why is it that this news piece does not provide the name of the suspect; the man is only yet a suspect, therefore, it is important that the writer of the story provides atleast the name, if other information are not possible to be revealed. Readers are left in suspension of disbelief.

----- Original Message -----
From: Felix Ossia <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sunday, January 12, 2003 2:27 pm
Subject: Gambia Holds Man Over Suspected Plot on U.S. Envoy

> Gambia Holds Man Over Suspected Plot on U.S. Envoy
> Updated 2:42 PM ET January 12, 2003
>
>
> BANJUL, Gambia (Reuters) - Gambia said Sunday that a foreign man had
> been arrested over a suspected plot to kill the United States
> ambassadorin the West African country.
>
> Interior Minister Ousman Badjie told Reuters the man was arrested
> at a
> motel outside the capital Banjul Thursday after a tip off.
>
> Security sources said that investigators had also arrived from the
> United States to help their Gambian counterparts in the questioning.
>
> "Presently the man is helping security agents in their
> investigations. I
> do not want to preempt the interrogation so I cannot tell you his
> nationality," Badjie said.
>
> Badjie said that the man being questioned was not an African.
>
> U.S. embassy officials were not immediately available for comment.
>
> Impoverished Gambia, a former British colony, is a sliver of a country
> almost surrounded by Senegal. It survives on groundnuts, fishing and
> tourism.
>
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