Jabou, thanks for this forward.  If this is true, then the Jammeh
administration better take it's nose out of others' business.  I, however,
would not be surprised if this allegation is found to be true, because of
the meddling of the APRC in the affairs of Senegal.  We better not feel too
comfortable with Senegal as a buffer zone.  If Bissau reasons with Senegal
that they can take care of Gambia and Cassamance with one stroke, it might
come to that at some point.  Gambia cannot afford that at any time.  A word
to the wise is sufficient, but I do not know about fools, which is what we
have running our affairs.  I guess Jammeh really wants to be like Gadaffi.
Lord, this boy is ignorant.

Chi Jaama

Joe Sambou


>From: Jabou Joh <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Fwd: Bissau coup attempt. Gambia warned.
>Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 19:32:49 EDT
>
>Guinea-Bissau says coup thwarted, warns Gambia
>
>
>LISBON, Portugal (Reuters) - Guinea-Bissau's president said Tuesday a coup
>attempt was thwarted in May and warned the West African nation of Gambia
>over
>its alleged role in coup plots, the Portuguese news agency Lusa reported.
>
>President Kumba Yalla said in Guinea-Bissau that about two dozen coup
>plotters trained in neighboring Gambia had been arrested in an attempt to
>oust his government on May 22, Lusa said.
>
>The coup attempt was aimed at "overthrowing the democratically elected
>government in Guinea-Bissau," Yalla said, speaking in front of about 300
>people from various national regions and ethnic groups.
>
>He was joined by armed forces chief Verissimo Seabra and Interior Minister
>Rui Sanha. Yalla also made his comments in front of David Stephen, the
>special representative of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan in
>Guinea-Bissau,
>Lusa said.
>
>Yalla, who was elected president in January 2000, said he would "smash"
>Gambia if President Yahya Jammeh failed to stop backing attempts to
>overthrown the Guinea-Bissau government, Lusa said.
>
>Yalla gave no details about Gambia's alleged involvement in coup attempts.
>However, he noted that Gambia was the birthplace of Brig. Ansumane Mane,
>the
>one-time head of a military junta shot dead during a November 2000 coup
>attempt.
>
>An alleged coup plotter, reserve army officer Fode Conte, said in a taped
>confession that he feared that he and fellow members of the Mandingo ethnic
>group would be purged from the army.
>
>Conte said on the tape played before onlookers that the plotters planned to
>kill Yalla and other senior military officers from the rival Balanta ethnic
>group, Lusa said.
>
>Yalla said he would grant amnesties to those arrested in the alleged May
>plot
>as well those detained for a coup attempt in December 2001.
>
>The rumors of a coup and fears of a government and military shake-up have
>led
>many residents in the capital, Bissau, to make plans to abandon the city,
>Lusa said.
>
>Guinea-Bissau, an impoverished former Portuguese colony of 1.3 million
>people, has been rocked by repeated unrest since an army mutiny in 1998.
>Gambia, a former British colony with fewer than 1.5 million people, is
>separated from Guinea-Bissau by the country of Senegal.
>   06/11/02 13:57 ET
>
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