Mr Sanneh,

Are you interested in what the forward has to say or are you more interested
in my political orientation? Why do you have this propensity to pounce from
nowhere with your incoherent posts talking about all else under the sun than
what the actual content of the article is?

Mugabe is going to Lisbon together with all other African leaders; that is
the issue here. Period!

Kabir.


On 10/24/07, ABDOUKARIM SANNEH <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Dr Jaiteh
>
>
> You really speak for me. Kabir and his left wing ideas seems he is
> strengthening the hand of devil Mugabe. In terms of democratic dispensation,
> Gordon Brown is more democratic than Robert Mugabe. I cannot see any reason
> why such an informed person living and enjoying the values of western
> society keep forward bankrupt propaganda without realizing the state of
> madness in that country. It is no western propaganda the average Zimbabwean
> want Mugabe to go! Leftist idealogy and strengthen dictatorship in our
> country. For example in Gambia soon after Yahya Jammeh took power he use
> MOJAG members in Sweden and other Nordic countries to justifify his take
> over. It is the Gugs like Sarjo Jallow et al who support the regime when 12
> students are gun down in day light. I have no concern about deapair and
> hopelessness butbackground and utopian dreams of liberation struggle.
> Malanding Jaiteh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> My brother Kabir,
> This is not to question your independence or clarity on the Zimbabwe
> issue but The Herald (Harare) is certainly nothing but a Mugabe
> government-owned "Bulfaleh Horomsi" news service:)
>
> Malanding Jaiteh
>
>
> Kabir Njaay wrote:
>
> >EU Deals Brown a Body Blow
> >
> >
> >The Herald (Harare)
> >
> >
> >NEWS
> >24 October 2007
> >Posted to the web 24 October 2007
> >
> >By Sydney Kawadza
> >Harare
> >
> >THE European Union has dealt British Prime Minister Gordon Brown a body
> blow after its parliamentarians invited President Mugabe to attend the
> EU-Africa Summit set for Lisbon, Portugal, in December.
> >
> >EU parliamentarians and their Pan African Parliament counterparts jointly
> announced the invitation in South Africa last Friday.
> >
> >
> >Head of the EU parliamentary delegation Mr Michael Gahler and PAP
> chairperson of the Ad Hoc Committee on Relations with the European
> Parliament Mr Marwick Khumalo announced at a joint Press conference that
> they had discussed, and resolved that Cde Mugabe should attend the summit to
> give his side of the story and discuss challenges confronting Zimbabwe with
> other leaders.
> >
> >The announcement by the EU and PAP MPs came barely 24 hours after Mr
> Brown -- still smarting after Africa and other EU states refused to endorse
> his anti-Mugabe stance -- clambered from his high horse, saying he would not
> oppose President Mugabe's attendance.
> >
> >Mr Brown -- who held informal talks with South African President Thabo
> Mbeki ahead of the rugby World Cup final in France on Saturday -- reportedly
> assured Mr Mbeki that he was not trying to stop anyone from attending the
> summit.
> >
> >The EU and PAP parliamentarians will hold a pre-summit meeting a day
> before the official opening of the EU-Africa Summit as they hope to
> influence deliberations by the heads of state and government.
> >
> >The announcement by Mr Gahler, first vice president of the ACP-EU Joint
> Parliamentary Assembly, is significant given that he hit the headlines for
> the wrong reasons in June this year after conspiring with the German embassy
> in Harare to deny visas to the Zimbabwean delegation to the 13th Session of
> the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Forum in Wiesbaden, Germany.
> >
> >The delegation was supposed to present a draft resolution condemning EU
> sanctions on Zimbabwe for consideration in Wiesbaden.
> >
> >PAP has also, on numerous occasions, tried to sponsor anti-Zimbabwe
> resolutions in its meetings.
> >
> >Mr Brown has cut a lone figure as most EU member-states, the AU, Sadc,
> Comesa and other regional groupings have refused to endorse his campaign to
> have President Mugabe excluded from the summit.
> >
> >He has, however, found sympathisers in the Nordic countries that have not
> echoed his boycott threats.
> >
> >EU president and summit host Portugal has said it respects Africa's
> position that President Mugabe should attend the summit and said Britain's
> stance on Zimbabwe was against European interests.
> >
> >Portuguese Foreign Minister Mr Luis Amado said no country "can be pushed
> aside from dialogue and from the development of long-term strategic
> relations between the EU and the continent".
> >
> >European Commission chief Mr Jose Manuel Barroso concurred, saying the
> summit should not be derailed by the standoff between Britain and Zimbabwe.
> >
> >German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said all African leaders, including
> President Mugabe, should attend the summit.
> >
> >The last EU-Africa Summit was held in Cairo, Egypt, in December 2003, and
> there has been no other summit for the past four years as Africa refused to
> give in to British demands to hold a summit excluding Zimbabwe.
> >
> >Africa has maintained that the summit should involve leaders from the
> continent and invitations should not be selective.
> >
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