"Correction >roughly 12,5000 weapons should read
roughly 12,500 weapons."
Sorry for the inconvenience
Saihou
--- saihou Mballow <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>          According to the panel of experts on Sierra
> Leone Diamonds and Arms appointed pursuant to
> Security
> Council Resolution 1343,the  personal connections
> between President Charles Taylor, Foday Sankoh,sam
> Bockarie,Baba Jobe ,Lt.Col.gibriel Massaquoi,General
> Ibrahim Bah and Dennis Mingo go back ten years to
> their training in Libya,to their combined efforts on
> behalf of Blaise Campaore in his seizure of power in
> bukina Faso, and to Sankoh's involvement in Charles
> Taylor's struggle as head of the NPFL to take power
> in
> Liberia in the early 1990s.
>
> In May 2000,at the time the Lome peace process
> collapsed,roughly 12,5000 weapons and 250,000 pieces
> of ammunition had been collected at the different
> weapons storage centres that had been initiated
> eight
> months earlier.The weapons included the following:
>
> .496 pistols,
> .4000 AK-47 "kalashnikov"rifles,
> .1,072 AK-47 rifles,
> .940 G-3 rifles,
> .440 FN-Fal rifles,
> .140 machines guns,
> .217 Grenade launchers,
> .1855 Grenades,
> .45 Mortars.
>
> The Gambia Ambassadassor Babucarr Blaise Jagne
> should
> advise the Government properly on this matter
> because
> he knows about the investigations until on one of
> the
> meetings, 4264th meeting thursday,25 January 2001,
> 3.15 p,m in New York,he called on the panel of
> experts
> to visit Banjul.Also during the same meeting he said
> "through the unscrupulous behaviour of some
> individuals,it is possible that diamonds might be
> passing or passed through the Gambia to other
> destinations,but it is preposterous to even
> insinuate
> to such tractions,or derives any revenue from this
> illegal trade,either through taxes or otherwise."
>
> The panel didn't mentioned Blaise Jagne himself or
> sedat Jobe because they are innocent in the matter,
> but only mentioned Baba Jobe because they got
> tangible
> evidence of his involvement from all the corners of
> Lybia,Liberia and Sierra Leone.
>
>  The security council resolution 1306 [2000]
> concerning Sierra Leone  was adopted by the security
> council on july 5th 2000,the secretary general  of
> the
> UN appointed a panel of experts to collect
> information
> on possible violations of the measures and the link
> trade in diamonds and trade in Arms and related
> materials,and consider the adequacy of control
> system.
>
> The panel first met  at United Nations Headquarters
> here in New York on August 21st 2000 and it was
> subsequently agreed with the security council
> sactions
> committee on Sierra leone that its report would be
> submitted on december 8th 2000.This was subsequently
> rescheduled to mid-december 2000.
>
> The panel  members attended an intergovernmental
> conference on conflict diamonds held in
> pretoria-south
> africa in september 2000.
>
> The panel travelled widely to countries involved in
> the diamonds trade,and to countries involved ,or
> said
> to be  involved in traffficking of weapons and
> related
> materials to Sierra leone in contravention of
> Security
> Council embargoes.The entire panel  visited sierra
> Leone twice, and some panel members visited three
> times.In addition to Freetown,trips were made to
> Daru
> and to the diamond trading centre on Kenema.
>
> In Guinea,the panel members visited Counakry and
> nzerekore.The entire also visited Liberia and South
> Africa.Some of the members travelled to
> Belgium,Burkina
> Faso,Canada,Ghana,France,India,Israel,Mali,Nigeria,
> Niger,Ukraine,Uk,US and United Arab
> Emirates.Stopover
> visits were made to Abidjan and Gambia.
>
> In each country panel members met with government
> Authorities,and where relevant,with diplomatic
> missions,civil society organizations,and
> agencies,private sector firms and journalists.the
> Panel had acess to a wide range of public and
> confidential information provided by official
> sources,including law enforcement and intelligence
> agencies.The panel also contacted a member of key
> individuals and informants under the conditions of
> confidentiality,the release added.
>
> Given the sensitive  nature of the subject,i am
> withdrawing the names of the panel of experts who
> recommended the travel band.
>
> I look forward to hear Baba Jobe talks when i will
> bring more of the report.
>
> saihou
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --- Ebrima Ceesay <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Gambia-L:
> >
> > The unedited e-mail below, as usual, came from a
> > source in the Gambia.
> >
> > Ebrima Ceesay
> >
> >
>
________________________________________________________________
> >
> > >To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Sedat
> Jobe:
> > Where is Baba Jobe?
> > >Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001
> > >
> > >Ebrima,
> > >
> > >Jabou Joh's spiel on the belated and inept
> reaction
> > to the UN Security
> > >Council's travel ban on Baba Jobe by the
> Honourable
> > Secretary of State
> > >Sedat Jobe is spot on. One thing everyone must
> > understand is that this
> > >Government is on its final days. Therefore they
> > will stop at nothing. The
> > >Point and Independent have some interesting
> pieces
> > on Sedat Jobe's letter
> > >to the UN Security Council. Both articles depict
> > the Foreign Secretary as
> > >incompetent, dishonest and totally lacking in
> > credibility, if he ever had
> > >one. The articles will be posted by someone else
> > shortly. Back to Jabou's
> > >hunches: This Government is curious to know what
> > the UN has got on Yaya
> > >Jammeh and many other senior Government officials
> > so that they can cover
> > >themselves. Any additional information on Baba
> Jobe
> > that does not directly
> > >implicate Yahya would be of particular interest
> to
> > Yahya, at this juncture,
> > >because they will use it against Baba Jobe.Jabou,
> > Baba has already been
> > >done with in anyway you slice it by Yahya Jammeh
> > and his henchmen and
> > >women. Meanwhile, could Sedat Jobe tell the
> Gambian
> > people where is Baba
> > >Jobe? I am sure and certain that he doesn't know
> > the whereabouts of this
> > >notoriuos arms trafficker, drug peddler and
> student
> > killer that Sedat Jobe
> > >pretends to defend. It's all a ploy, as Jabou Joh
> > suspected, to give Baba
> > >Jobe the impression that Yahya is behind him,
> when
> > he has already been done
> > >with figuratively, at least, if not literally.
> > Remember, it has been nearly
> > >a week since Baba Jobe was last seen or heard.
> MAY
> > THE LORD DELIVER THE
> > >GAMBIA FROM THIS EVIL EMPIRE OF YAHYA JAMMEH.
> Have
> > a good weekend folks.
> > >
>
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