Minteh, My sentiments exactly regarding this so-called NIA declassified information. I guess the NIA wants us to believe that they pre-occupy themselves doing departmental assesments and audits, and presenting news items as classified information which they are now de-classifying for us. How laughable to think that people are so gullible, but simple minds do tend to believe that others share their predicament. On the other hand, since this is a dictatorship that runs the country as a private enterprise, having taken over all purchasing in all government departments so they can buy and resell everything to The Gambia for a profit, in addition to attempting to take over private commerce from private business to the market vendor, it is not surprising that this is part of the activities of the NIA. However, It will take a lot more than this childish pretense at supposed transparency to clean up the image of this regime. Infact, this information passing as classified information is more evidence that the APRC regime does indeed run our country as a private enterprise of their own. As for the attempt to pull the wool over our eyes with this cheap exercise, there is not enough soap in all the World to clean up the image of this regime no matter who they fire and hire at this point because the handwriting is already on the wall and the real culprits are still the ones running the show, and it is too late in this here game to even try that. How about de-classifying the real dirty work we know that the NIA engages in 24/7 on behalf of their Boss, like the torture and illegal incarceration of their fellow citizens and other dirty underhanded things they carry out on the people daily? It is also already too late for the NIA themselves because they know that sooner rather than later, they will have to face their fellow citizens without the bully machinery of the APRC regime behind them. Some people have no vison much to their own detriment. Gambians cannot forget that it is the cooperation of some of their fellow citizens that has enabled and still enables this brutal and illegal regime to ride on the backs of the people despite their apparent incompetence and illegal dealings. Jabou Joh In a message dated 1/31/04 1:06:38 PM Central Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes: > (Laugh)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NIA declassified on a current subject,intelligence > is usually declassified after decades.Declassifying hot news on current > debates is in itself a threat to national security ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~