Valid and powerful arguments from Sister Jabou. We should be weary of  the devils in disguised. Gambia's bigger problem today is Yahya Jammeh and we should not lost track of this fact. We are bound to agree and disagree on issues-but that should not divide us in our quest  to effect democrat change in The Gambia. Pointing accusing fingers against one another will not move us anywhere, but to give room to the dictatorship to further misrule our dear country. Our watch word for now should be how to salvage The Gambia  from Yahya's black mailing tactics and not otherwise. I must add that it is healthy we agree and disagree on issues. It gives credibility to our struggle.  Just a thought..................











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Brother Modou Sidibeh,

I think I have become paranoid after watching too many an exchange between
differing viewpoints that could have given birth to even better ideas if only
they did not deteriorate into personal attacks and accusations of personal
attacks die.Not a good thing at all.

I agree that this has become a rather precarious situation but the tragedy
is that Jammeh will use it to his advantage and as a result, make an even
worse spectacle of himself before the World even if these documents are
forgeries. Even in the face of something like this, would any sane leader who respects
the rule of law not have embarked upon a thorough investigation of this
allegation before acting rather than swiftly arresting and incarcerating these
people complete with the usual trademark violations of constitutional rights
under detention etc?

Jammeh would have found other means of making good on his threats against
these men. He made the promise himself for all Gambians to hear and record. He
stood before Gambians and dared to say that some people will not witness the
2006 elections.

On the other hand, Senegal I am sure also sees this regime as one that has
had designs to destabilize their own country for years by aiding and abetting
an effort that if successful, would not only separate Casamance from Senegal,
but which would result in the loss to Senegal of a very vital part of their
country. Jammeh has been putting up some of the Casamance rebel leadership
right there in Banjul for years now with rumours of supplying them with arms.
If Senegal's intention was deliberate with intent to cause chaos, the Jammeh
regime opened up the door of that possibility by their past actions. If you
live by the sword...........but then it is always the people who suffer isn't
it?

Somehow though, our having come to this in our relationship with Senegal is
amazing, and a tragedy of the worse kind that is a direct result of the APRC
misrule and quest for more and more power. Idiots playing dangerous games to
feed their small egos. With these two countries, we are talking about people
who share a deep ancestral bond and how many families in Gambia have a good
portion of the same family in the other country and vice versa? This is a
foreign nation and yet, they are not foreigners.
Accusations and counter accusations that may lead to more friction and even
conflict as you pointed out would be a foolish venture on our part for many
reasons too numerous to list but which I am sure all of us can name.
Yaya Jammeh and his band of rogues are grasping at straws and any situation
will do. Let the APRC regime tell the people how this government's
stationery was used to send forged documents but I am afraid such an investigation if
it were purported to be underway would end up like all the other ones that
have become perpetual investigations so they will not catch themselves.
Jabou Joh

In a message dated 11/28/2005 1:19:41 P.M. Central Standard Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:

Sister Jabou,

I agree that Yahya should be our focus now and all the time he remains
seated on that sweet presidentail chair. Yet Ebrima Ceesay's third posting
highlights yet again the probability that he has become a pawn in Abdoulie
Wadd's geopolitical chess game. A former Cassamance rebel secretly records
Jammeh's anti-Wadd eruptrions, submits the tapes to the Senegalese and
eventually the said tape is rerun for Jammeh to expose to him that his
public embrace of Wadd as brother and friend is nothing more than fraudulent
doublespeak.

At that point Jammeh was in the diplomatic grip of the Senegalese. Question
is how high he would jump if they ask him to leap. Of course, the mansa of
Kanilai brought it all onto himself. But our problem is that this mansa is
also the President of the Gambia.
Yes, he would have picked at any straw to tuck NADD leaders away, being the
Dr.Yaahakat Komganarr he is (if Baaba Galleh Jallow would allow me). But
should the Senegalese provide him the matchstick by which to set alight our
nation? The harrowing nightmares of all democratic-minded Gambians, and the
untold agonies of the families of the incacerated leaders, and the
subsequential possibilities of violent confrontation seem all to have been
put in motion by a forged document that the Senegalese in pursuit of
realpolitik allowed President Jammeh to smell.

It just seems to me that even in our quest to sweep away our national APRC
rot, a line must be drawn between what is acceptable action instigated by a
foreign power, and what is not.

That I might take your response as a personal attack Sister Jabou? I am
thanking the stars for my good fortune. Just as you spelled it out to
Ebrima, I am only too glad to have been able to draw you into the mud once
more. Your contributions are needed on this list much more so than ever
before. I shall gladly welcome more "personal attacks" of that nature.

Cheers,
Sidibeh

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