Hello all, is anyone surprised about this?

     Didn't someone post something a few days ago, a supposed quote from Jammeh to the affect that if his soldiers were responsible for shooting someone that they wouldn't miss?  This quote was in reference to the shooting of Ousman Sillah a while back.

    And look at how efficiently, I guess you could say, that this was carried out?  I mean, the police officer quoted even commented about hits, so whoever did it, knew what they were doing.  And how convenient that this ahppened just as the media bill was being passed, and especially ironic given that Hydara was the main signitory on a letter to President? Jammeh, asking him not to sign said media bill?

     Of course, I know I'm not saying anything earth-shattering, just some thoughts that came to mind...

Take care, all...

Ginny


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  'No suspect' in journo murder
  18/12/2004 21:29  - (SA)   

             
             
       
             
             
                
       
       

       
       
       
       


  Banul - Gambian police said Saturday that they are following all leads in the murder of a political journalist, AFP's correspondent in the small west African country, but are still waiting for "a breakthrough". 

  "We hope one day we'll have a breakthrough, there must be a clue somewere" to the shooting on Thursday of Deida Hydara, but "everything is possible", police chief Landing Badjie told AFP. 

  "We don't have any suspect yet," Badjie said, but added that a police witness saw Hydara, shot with several bullets in the head soon after leaving the office of the hard-hitting newspaper The Point, of which he was co-editor. 

  The police witness said the killer was in a Mercedes taxi which drew alongside Hydara's car in Banjul. Gambians have compared the murder with the unexplained killing of prominent Burkina Faso journalist Norbert Zongo, who was investigating reported corruption at top state level when he was assassinated in 1998. 

  Hydara "was driving two colleagues home when a taxi overtook the car and made it stop," Gambia Press Union chief Demba Ali Diao said on Friday. 

  "Several people, we don't know how many, got out, and fired into the car. He was killed instantly." 

  Badjie said "you need to be very good to do this", speaking about the speed and method of Hydara's killing. "It may be a mercenary or a sniper. We are screening the borders and we're in contact with the Senegalese police." 

  Gambia is a former British colony stretched along the Gambia river and forming an enclave with an Atlantic coast between the northern and southern parts of Senegal, which was under French rule until independence. 

  The mainly Muslim country is led by President Yahwa Jammeh, whose government has been accused of muzzling the media. At The Point, the leading private newspaper, Hydara wrote strongly worded editorials critical of a new press law which was passed this week. 

  The Sunday Observer newspaper, published on Saturday, reported that Hydara's two colleagues, Ida Jagne-Joof and Nyang Jobe, were wounded in the attack, but only one was shot. 

  Hydara had worked for AFP since 1974, beginning his career with the agency as a translator. Aged 58, he leaves a widow and four children. 

  Leonard Vincent, head of the Africa service of the France-based media watchdog Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF), said Hydara was the "impetus" behind an open letter sent Thursday by RSF to Jammeh, urging him not to sign the two press bills into law. 



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