I agree with you about the despicable job done by the Observer newspaper in their reporting of Yaya's abysmal trip to New York. Instead of highlighting the emptiness of Yaya's speech, the immensely successful demo against the evil Yaya represents, Yaya's incarceration in his hotel room etc., the mental midgets at the Observer zoomed on the disgraced duo of Sanneh and Puy and Yaya's childish comparisons of the Gambian and Senegalese communities in New York. Like you, I don't even think that the reported meetings took place. In any case, meeting with kissinger (a has been) or Ms. Rice (Bush Foreign Policy Adviser) is neither here nor there. This just shows the ineptitude of Yaya's handlers. They do not understand where power lies in the U.S. This just goes to confirm that the Observer, together with its owner, Amadou Samba, are at the beck and call of Yaya. Don't worry about these reports. The ordinary Gambian knows that this government and its supporters are only good at peddling lies. No one can erase the fantastic job the decent Gambians did in the streets of New York last week. They can spin whatever they want. The truth of the matter is, it was Yaya who was hiding and not Saul Mbenga or Karamba Touray or Ya Soffie. Did you get a picture of Yaya addressing a hall full of Gambians? I can guarantee that had the Gambians in Banjul had the same freedoms people in New York have, they would come out en masse and imprison the coward in his bunker in Kanilai. If the police force in Banjul could protect citizens like the police did in New York last week, Gambians will line the streets of Banjul and register their disgust towards this brutal regime and the cowards that head it. We will catch up with the Sannehs and the Puys of this world. Despicable characters that will follow the Devil to Hell. They are all nonentities that think that their personal selfish desires can only be guaranteed by Yaya. Yaya should have given his motivational speech to the likes of Sanneh. Old men that will follow a moron like Yaya in order to feed their families. Most of us in the opposition protesting against Yaya enjoy unimaginable (to Yaya) success in the U.S. Our families back home depend on our remittances. We do not steal government coffers to make ends meet. Even the so called intellectuals in Yaya's entourage had to depend on government allowances given to them for the trip to bring their wives and children here to shop. If educated people like that cannot make ends meet without engaging in corrupt practices, how can an illiterate like Yaya survive here or in The Gambia? So the infantile rhetoric the Observer was propagating, was addressed to the wrong audience. Yaya should counsel himself and his cohorts to try and work towards earning a decent living. Come here and be a taxi-driver rather than follow a moron like Yaya from place to place spreading lies. Rather than emptying government coffers or coming up with bogus trips in order to earn allowances, they should cut their coats according to their sizes and live within their means. If their salaries back home cannot support a flamboyant lifestyle, they should do like their other compatriots and get an education in order to attract a high paying job abroad. Once again, thanks for a superb job in mobilizing the Gambians to register their disgust towards Yaya. Decent Gambians know where the truth lies. The Observer or other media outlets cannot change history. KB >From: Movement for the Restoration of Democracy in Gambia ><[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Yahyaa JAHANAMA Jammeh engaged in the "THIEF-THIEF TECHNIQUE" > Blame game >Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 17:26:21 EDT > >With al the swindling, coning, lying, killing and hiding Dictator Yahya >Jahanama had been engaged in, this spineless and recalcitrant >reporter/misinformer, whatever this dude from Observer is engaged in, tries >to play the confuse and conceal the real issue here. In the Thief-Thief >technique scenario, whenever a thief/crook is caught stealing, instead of >pleading sorry/guilty, the idiot yells thief..thief, in order to distract >or >counter-accused the victim. Hence victim[s], Gambians becomes villains and >Yahya becomes victim. Gambians are tired of this trap/setup and will not >fell >for this one. Rest assured that, we will follow up with calls to Payne's, >Mackinney and other's offices to verify these assertions of secret meetings >in NY. >How come, reports on Yahya's trip to NY on Gambian media were minuscule >this >time around compared to last year's trip. DAAH, RAG-TAG OBSERVER. >We also have videos of the conter-demonstrators mentioned in the article. >The >guys on Gambian.com will review the tapes and post the clip clearly showing >TWO COUTERDEMONSTRATORS, PAPA PUYY NJIE AND BOTOH SANNEH. You'll hear the >boohing and explicit languages lobbed at them, while entering the Park. > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L >Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html >You may also send subscription requests to >[log in to unmask] >if you have problems accessing the web interface and remember to write your >full name and e-mail address. >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. 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