'Making Strasser a target is a thinly veiled attempt by Jammeh to show the
world that he does not keep company with evil people'

Yayah Jammeh should be very careful because what goes around comes around.

>From: Sidi M Sanneh <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: FWD : Sierra Leone ex-junta chief, Strasser, arrested in Gambia
>Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 11:54:33 -0000
>
>   BANJUL, Nov 22 (AFP) - Gambian soldiers have arrested Sierra Leonean
>former
>military ruler Valentine Strasser and handed him over to intelligence
>agents
>for questioning, a military source said Wednesday.
>   An army patrol picked up Strasser last week between Tallingding and
>Latri
>Kunda, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) from Banjul, and held him at a
>military
>base before turning him in to the National Intelligence Agency (NIA).
>   The soldiers found him carrying "operational" documents giving
>"strategic"
>site descriptions, the source said. He was still being held by the NIA on
>Wednesday.
>   However, it was unclear whether the documents referred to Sierra Leone,
>where Strasser seized power in April 1992 and was ousted in 1996, or to
>Gambia, an enclave along the Gambia river between northern and southern
>Senegal.
>   The Gambian government on November 2 deported Strasser back to London,
>where he had been living in exile, shortly after he entered the small west
>African country without notifing the authorities.
>   The ex-army captain returned to Gambia about a week later, whereupon the
>Sierra Leonean ambassador in Banjul said he would vouch for him.
>   When President Yahya Jammeh's government first sent Strasser back to
>London, it stated that it did not wish Gambia "to be seen as a refuge for
>those who have committed crimes against humanity and are wanted in their
>own
>country."
>   Human rights organisation Amnesty International has urged Britain to put
>Strasser on trial for murder and torture carried out by his regime.
>   Strasser was sent to Britain in 1997 as part of a deal brokered by
>United
>Nations peacekeepers.
>   dh-at/nb/kc
>
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