BANJUL-DAKAR COLD WAR-NARROW NATIONALISM OR FOOT BALL? During the last qualifying rounds on the Africa cup of nations Senegalese and Gambians nearly fell victims of the devil. Jammeh and his cronies were about to spark a subregional ethnic conflict through foot ball.They were disguising such evil intensions through sports.This reminds me when Adolf Hitler refused the shake the hands of a black athlete in Berlin! What has track and field or the bahama grass at the Bakau stadium got to do with Jammeh's anger against Wade? The Gambia/Senegal football matches were played under a lot of tension and hard feelings.Any evil that affected the minds of those supporters and players mushroomed from Kanilai and from the dirty mouths of the mad commentators who were being projected because they sang praises instead of promoting sports. Prior to the arrival of the Senegalese team and the return match between the two teams in Dakar,Gambian youths were being used and narrow nationalism was spreading like wild fire underneath.Rumours were rife that,Jammeh predicted a win for The Gambian players.Jammeh's so-called predictions are nauseating for the real men and women of God.Lost illusions and madness is what some of my professors calls a tunnel that leads to wild dreams and then help promote witch craft.Jammeh si a low life and a mad man who prevails where there is no sanity.His inferiority complex made him believe that Senegal could not win their match against the French team during the last world cup,without having used jujus exetra. He did not hesitate to go in the open saying that our neighbours(Senegal) would know this time that they were not playing toubabs! they will discover that in Gambia we have better marabouts and stronger jalangs! God save The Gambia! Please God do that! As usual stupid and lousy characters like Tijan Ceesay(Eku Boppa),by the way for the first time I caught sight of this fellow last week.I wanted to come out of my car and slap him when someone pointed at him and said that he is Eku Boppa.This fellow and other low lives went round town spreading that foolish belief,that Jammeh has some magical powers and would not allow Senegal win! Jammeh has magical powers.I remember when Chongan used to hold Jammeh's balls in Depot.This is very sad for me to hear. It was widely rumoured in town that James Kujabi was the one who kept the so-called secret and the powerful Jujus that were going to retain the cup in Banjul.Stupid fools! It was also rumoured that if James shook hands with nay of the players from Dakar that person was supposed or going to be what the mandinkas call YOMFA. The Senegalese knew that something was up in the minds of the fools we have.They sent a word to their players.No doubt players like Elhaj Joof are international ones who depend on their doctors and other advicers.He Joof did not take those threats ligh;y,because who knows what was put in the water bottles in Banjul.Joof and co were not afraid of talisman,they were afraid that some other chemical might have been put in those bottles to harm them.Imagine hearing mad men in town spreading such sick messages that were coming from a head of state! Culturally,historically we and Senegal are the same people from the same background.Some of the players believed in the magical threats therefore did not want to shake hands.The word that went around was that anyone of them who scored was going to die or become impotent.This sounds funny but it is not all people who take such threats lightly.They were warned not to drink water that was reserved specially for them.! The Jammeh clique quickly wnet round town after the match saying that the Senegalese players refused drinking Gambian water.That was not true.Why did some of them recieve their Gambian relatives and then drank or ate what those relatives brought for them? The NIA as usual also was bragging that they would take pictures of the players who dared take bath and then spread the nakjed pictures on the internet to embarass them internationally.This version was also sent to Dakar,that is why they rejected taking bath in Banjul.Not because they did not like Gambians.Even after the match some of these players came to Banjul and visited their Gambian friends in private. One of these players opened up his email and website and part of the criticism he refuted was what happened in Banjuul.He clearly said that they were scared to drink the water because they feared not the jujus but the germs,because they were told that some of the juju was injected in those bottles.The GFA may not know all that was happening behind the scenes so they should not be dragged into a fight that they never created. Gabbi Sosseh is a veteran footballer and a good man he should stay away from politicising sports. Every Gambian knows how immature Jammeh could be some times so it is true that when his predictions failed and he was disgraced by Joof and others in Dakar,he ordered some innocent Gambian youths to stone at the Senegalese trucks at Barra.He also ordered secretly that the Senegalese nationals in The Gambia be beaten up.After all that his jalibas came telling us that Jammeh did not say because he is a president! A so-called president for an unfortunate Republic is what I will call this mad man. Jammeh's cold war towards Dakar has been archived and a lot will be revealed from now onwards.Let him sue me for libel because my name is correct and my adress is also correct.Binneh Minteh is from Fatoto,as a reminder for the NIA. Binneh S Minteh NYU.EDU,NEWYORK UNIVERSITY USA EMAIL:[log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/CGI/wa.exe?S1=gambia-l To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~