G-L:
According to contacts in Banjul, there is massive blackout in Banjul and the
kombos. This is one day that people need to be watching TV for the election
results. It only makes me wonder.

Musa Jeng

Hamjatta Kanteh wrote:

> In a message dated 18/10/2001 07:28:06 GMT Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> > << It is only people who are not familiar with the movement of the President
> > and what goes with it will ask these times of questions. **Anti-aircraft and
> > tanks have always been part of the President's convoy.** If Ebou Colly is
> > honest, he will testify to this. This has been the case since 1994. >>
> >
> >
>  Yeah, right! But why the heck would a "president" need anti- aircrafts,
> tanks and a vast array of heavy military weaponry when he goes to meet
> ordinary people to ask for their consent to "lead" them
> again???????????????????? Is this not a DIRECT way of threatening people to
> subdue to the will of a brute? Give us a break, will yer? This talk that the
> security of the country will not be compromised is hogwash! It is a mere code
> for clamping down heavily on the PEACEFUL and DEMOCRATIC gatherings of
> ordinary Gambians who are opposed to Jammeh. You know very well that
> supporters of the Alliance are UNARMED and PEACEFULLY exercising their
> inviolable rights as citizens of the Gambia. As we keep saying, 2001 ain't
> 1996: the harassaments and intimidations that the APRC used to force itself
> on the Gambia in 1996 is simply inoperable this time around. Nothing can save
> Jammeh this time around. He is FINISHED. No amount of military hardware - be
> they ABMs or MiGs - will save the day. Now that is something you can take to
> the bank!
>
> Hamjatta Kanteh
>
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