Mr. Colly, while it is highly commendable of you to defend yourself in public against malicious attacks aimed at tarnishing your good reputation, some of these nonsense, you simply have to ignore them and move on. This is the second consecutive week that focus has been removed from Yaya and instead reposed on irrelevant issues pertaining to the way you look on TV or the words you use on G_L. I am again appealing to you to try and return focus on the menace in our society. People can always nit-pick your postings and find something offensive there to write about. There is very little you can do about how certain people perceive you and the way they decide to express their opinions of you and your choice of words. You pay undue importance to those critics, you run the risk of getting your eyes off the prize: Yaya. Let them call you pompous, arrogant, whatnot. You are NOT embark on a popularity contest on G_L. Granted, some attacks on your reputation undermines the credibility of your accounts on G_L. By all means, defend yourself against those attacks that tend to indirectly question the veracity of your statements. By all means also, defend yourself against any attackers lying that you are a murderer or a torturer. But attacks portraying you as pompous, arrogant etc. frankly, do NOT deserve your precious time. This is a subjective OPINION of someone. I know you relatively well and I know that you are NOT pompous and arrogant. In my opinion, you do NOT owe anybody an apology. Calling people that have no influence whatsoever in your life; people that unjustifiably accuse you and your friends of the most heinous crimes in the book, without substantiating their allegations .... calling those people NONENTITIES, is putting it mildly. This is going to be one disappointed subscriber if I open my mails next Monday and do not see your next installment about the 1994 coup and the breakdown of the command structure in the country as demonstrated by the recent insubordination shown by the army officer that defied his superiors’ orders and beat up the journalist that went to cover the court hearings at the barracks. That was a very significant happening that I am sure shrewd military-men like you did not miss. I am sure that had it not been for the distractions of the past few days, you would have commented on that topic. Now, junior officers have blatantly shown their superiors that they will NOT heed their orders. Thanks again for your invaluable contributions. KB _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------