Please excuse me for cramming in more than one issue in this posting. (It is to avoid making too many postings.)

It’s true, that recognising the importance of foreign aid (by which their bread is buttered) some dictators and their thugs, only damage their own nationals (when did Saddam ever hang Americans, Brits, or a few Germans?)

Post-Apartheid South Africa abolished the DEATH PENALTY, otherwise just imagine how many Toubabus, South Africans would have had to hang, for apartheid crimes against humanity? And once South Africa had hanged a few, their brothers and sisters in Europe and the rest of the white globe would have worked for the downfall of the regime that was doing the hanging. Sanctions, failing which full metal jacket and military invasion and re-colonisation.

You say that “if we say Yahya is bad, what we mean is that he is bad to us GAMBIANS”. I hope and pray that he is isn’t and that we also are not bad to him. As I had cause to express elsewhere, “when it comes to the freedom of truth, they are worse – much worse than those who they love to criticise.”

 I like Yahya, and those who object to my liking him, can go suck a bitter lemon. 

Our foremost duty is to ensure that what you say, if true becomes less true and untrue, with immediate effect.

Despite generous donations from some member States e.g. Libya, Sierra Leone never fully recovered from debts incurred putting up that good show when OAU met in Freetown in 1980. So we read “flamboyant OAU summit in 1980 aggravated the fiscal and current account deficits and ... Widespread industrial action by trade union groups in Freetown.”
As All Africa.com reported prior to the Banjul Summit “The holding of an OAU summit in Siaka Stevens' Sierra Leone in the late 1970s hastened the social and political explosion that rocked the country for the ….”

Grand AU Summits can only be very expensive affairs, not least of all when the smallest country in Africa, the Gambia has to foot the bill. The Banjul AU was a success, a result of much planning and implementation. Today the buildings that hosted the AU dignitaries and their entourages belong to the Gambia and are landmarks of Gambian development.
Like many other people, I was impressed by the Banjul AU success and the country and leader received a lot of attention – not least of all since he had invited, not CHINA, but Venezuela and Iran, tow states at loggerheads with the almighty United States.
Impressed by the AU success but depressed by the AU not taking a decisive step about setting limits to how long a man can be president. Most of them - since it is a most lucrative position would like to reign till they die – Mo Ibrahim peanut reward or not.
The rationale for such AU indecisiveness must be, if the president is GOOD, and as young as Yahya Jammeh is, then why change him?
 As a result of that kind of thinking Dr. Mugabe would like to roll on for another ten years.
Should Yahya Jammeh lead the Gambia for another 40 years - till 2047, he will only then be attaining the great age of Zimbabwe’s present president.

http://quickgm28.blogs.com/ginnys_thoughts_and_thing/2006/06/gambia_stay_awa.html

And now to that Der Spiegel article (I’ll write a reply – Evers will be grateful to have some meaningful feedback, suitably worded, redact the Malcolm X stuff which they would be reluctant to publish. 

“he is now capable of curing AIDS (as well as asthma)”

….sarcasm about asthma too whilst people suffer from asthma and he cures them.  A warm, friendly and sunshiny climate such as the Gambia provides is half the cure for asthma.

The same Marco Evers says as if truth said, Speak! Tell them! : 

“He takes equal pride in the 500 asthma victims that he's cured. “

Could this be too good to be true?

Now, we must all agree that this is the crux of the matter, the possibility of maximizing harm:

“She also cautioned the supposedly cured patients not to believe that they're no longer capable of spreading HIV. “

The post-cure question then is: are those who have received the treatment “no longer capable of spreading HIV. “  ?   Are they then all like new born babe, free to start all over again??

That news report from Harare and the article about Chirac’s legacy:

http://www.jpost.com/



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> From: Suntou Touray <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 2007/03/13 ti AM 06:19:40 CET
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> Ämne: Re: FWD:THE QUACK IN GAMBIA - African Despot 'Cures' AIDS
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> mr conilius ,i guess some dictators only torment their own nationals who 
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> at there mercy. yaya very well knows the importance of foriegn aid. i am 
> 
> well sure of your vast knowledge in international relations ,so the 
> rulling white elite are brothers ,being at lokerhead with Germany may 
> miraclously involve Britain ,france and even the self-proclaim world 
> policeman ..who knows where it will lead to. 
> if we say yaya is bad, what we mean is that he is bad to us GAMBIANS .in 
> 
> the A .u summit the man bourst our budget to entertain is very important 
> 
> guest ,would they complain about his heavy handedness with poor and weak 
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> Gambian's ? no sir they will not.
> to sum-up i will say yaya is strong and hard with us and nice and lovely 
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> with them .this is the trick. the west ,well so long as you did not harm 
> 
> there brothers or there brothers interest you are a free man.certainly 
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> yaya is not about to do that. he may have dementia but it is not yet out 
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> of control. the colonial jammeh is not fully mad .yet.
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