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From: sanyangfarang <[log in to unmask]>
To: ansukoroma <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: [>-<] COMMENTARY : Jammeh's next.


I can't say it any BETTER. Thanks for your insight 
Koroma.Farang.-----Original Message-----From: ansukoroma 
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Mon, Aug 22, 2011 4:28 pmSubject: [>-<] COMMENTARY : Jammeh's next.  
Withthe fall of Ben Ali of Tunis, Mubarak of Egypt and now Ghadaffi 
ofLibya, the Arab Spring matches on.  Damascus must be very uneasy 
rightabout now, given the sustained violence that Bashar al-Assad 
hasunleashed on the Syrian people for wanting to be free from 
dictatorshipand the decision of President Obama to ask the Syrian 
dictator torelinquish power.  Libya is even more instructive and 
relevant to theGambian case in that Mouamar Ghaddafi was not only a 
mentor of YayaJammeh who introduced him to the art of terror but he was 
also hisfirst major financier.  Most of the security apparatus 
employedcurrently in The Gambia has a strong Libyan flavor, including 
thetraining of some elements of the Green Boys of Jammeh fashioned on 
theGhaddafi security forces.  Yaya Jammeh has been a main beneficiary 
ofGhaddafi largesse but Jammeh became the first to abandon Ghaddafi 
inhis hour of need. To add insult to injury, Jammeh quickly announced 
theseizure of the Ghaddafi's investments in The Gambia only to receive 
astern warning from the Transitional National Council in Banghazi 
thatthe investments were Libya's and not Ghaddafi's.  Jammeh quickly 
backedoff - not surprising to those who know Yaya Jammeh to be a 
certifiedcoward. The swift and unexpected fall of Tripoli last night 
wasinstructive in that it was not all what Ghaddafi said it was going 
tobe i.e. that the city was secured and well guarded by his 
well-armedsecurity forces.  Obviously, that was not the case given the 
lightenspeed the 'rebels' routed the Ghaddafi forces.  It was either 
therewere no superior security forces at all, as claimed by Ghaddafi, 
orthat the security forces decided to lay down their arms and join 
the'rebels' against Ghaddafi. It matters not which of the 
twopossibilities occurred because either scenario is instructive 
forGambia and Gambians that will help us in our fight to dislodge 
thebrutal and corrupt dictatorship of Yaya Jammeh.  
Dictatorshipssubjugate the citizenry through fear and intimidation 
using torture andpropaganda.  The Libyan people called Ghaddafi's bluff 
last night andthis morning discovered the Emperor, after all, had no 
clothes.Gambians must draw lessons from the Arab Spring but 
particularly fromthe events unfolding in Benghazi and Tripoli.A. Koroma
  

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