Woh Saiks. I'm glad you're letting off steam here. I agree with you to a certain extent. However, you are describing an impasse. I'm afraid I can't do much with you Saiks cos you're not giving me any light at the end of the tunnell. If you don't support either one of them, how are we supposed to expel Gbagbo and his militia??

I encourage you to hold Ouattara harmless for his work on the behalf of his employer the IMF and WOrld bank or other international austerity agency. I mean they were his employer at the time not Ivory Coast. And Ivory Coast had a President and government then. I encourage you to reconsider this in your article. Before you finish it.

Saiks you're very funny when you wanna be. We're talking about an election that was conducted while Gbagbo was President. You must know something Gbagbo doesn't. I think you're also discounting the fact that the Ivorians voted for the Bedie/Ouattara Alliance. Not for Ouattara alone. We have already figured out that Ouattara sans Bedie = win for Gbagbo. (First round). I don't understand you Saiks.

Haruna. I still love you though. And I'll give my right hand for you.

-----Original Message-----
From: samateh saikou <[log in to unmask]>
To: GAMBIA-L <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Fri, Dec 24, 2010 11:23 am
Subject: Re: I am informed Gbagbo has retained the services of my friend Attorney Lannie Davis

Ron,
 
I told you that I will come crossing on you since you never forwarded anything here in support of Gbagbo.But I need to make this clear from the start, I am not  supporting  any of them,that is Alassana or Gbagbo, both these two gentle men are a disgrace to the continent and especially your Alssana, who was in the service of international capital destroying his own people and country by imposing IMF conditionality (ERP) that were never in the interest of the Ivorian people and nation, without doubt one of the main courses of this more than a decade long crisis.
 
Almost 10 years ago,that was December 2002,I wrote an article on the Ivorian crisis and I concluded there inn that ;
       
 
".....The question that should now be asked is how Gbagbo and his government will handle the internal crisis after the end of the conflict. If he chooses to confront the crisis on ethnic and regional lines, instead of confronting the forces that are against the interests of the Ivorian people, he is bound to fail sooner than later. "     (can let U know where to see the whole article if you want or just go to www.newsandletters.org and search for IV)
 
Gbagbo has certainly been playing the "regional" card and never put his country first as a way forward in resolving the crisis that for many years held this wonderful country in ransom. This is what I called out right opportunism.
 
I am very convinced that Ivorian  dont have a short memory and that is why I am perhaps among those who believed that Ivorian majority voters will never vote for Allasana.The whole international pressure is the work of France and unless one put this into perspective it will be very difficult to understand the whole crisis. It is  not one that started yesterday or just after the elections.
 
If you look rightly, the majority of the election commission is composed of Alassana`s supporters and the constitutional committee that of Gbagbo, is it not natural that they are in conflict ?, none of them are independent. And in a divided country, as in IV, one part controlled by the government forces and the other part by rebel forces, it will be hard to convince someone like me that elections under such conditions will be free and fair.
 
Coming from the Gambia,as we are expecting that our soon to come elections will not be free and fair, the Ivorian crisis will be a lesson to learn from.
 
I am still working on my article and I will surely let know when am through with it.
 
 
For Freedom
Saiks
 
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 20:15:59 -0500
From: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: I am informed Gbagbo has retained the services of my friend Attorney Lannie Davis
To: [log in to unmask]

Caesar this is what I say about you. You disappear for months on end in the Alaska Moose woods and one fine day you reappear just to give me trouble. I don't know what amohn do with yew. And first of all his name is not Larry. Its friggin Lannie/Lanny. In Carolina we call 'em hootenannies.

Oh, 'Ol Lannie knows exactly what he's doing and he knows what the UN, US, France, and EU positions are on Ivory Coast. The trick is Gbagbo can't speak or understand English and he didn't pay for a translator to tag Lannie. These African idiots are too funny.

Take care Caesar.

Haruna.

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From: Ousman Ceesay <[log in to unmask]>
To: GAMBIA-L <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thu, Dec 23, 2010 11:03 am
Subject: Re: I am informed Gbagbo has retained the services of my friend Attorney Lannie Davis

Haruna,
Your boy Larry, will work for anyone with a greenback to spare. What do you call his kind in your neck of the woods? I heard his flimsy excuses on NPR's morning edition yesterday. The schmuck keep rattling on about what the UN need to do, as if he doesn't know the United Nations has already taken a stance on the Ivorian impasse. 

 
http://gambian.blogspot.com

From: Haruna Darbo <[log in to unmask]>
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Cc:
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010 1:39:55 AM
Subject: I am informed Gbagbo has retained the services of my friend Attorney Lannie Davis

for $300,000 for 2 months. Lannie will represent Gbagbo's expired government "I don't know where" in a public relations bid. Lannie is a good man and I am confident he will work on the behalf of Ivorian citizens because it is they who will pay the $300,000.00. I encourage my friend Lannie to visit Ivory Coast so he will be informed about the people he is representing. I understand he hasn't been to IC yet. A flight to Mali and roadtrip to the Golf Hotel is recommended.

Haruna.

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