Again, Mr. Colly, you have painted a clear picture of these snakes (as
someone called them earlier on). You show a mastery of your field that few
people can boast of in their respective fields. And may I add that you did
it in clear and concise english (not gibberish). I counsel Yaya's
representative in France to respond to your statements of facts rather than
engage in personal vendettas with people. I like the diplomatic way you put
your point across without naming names. It might escape the naked eye that
you cleared the smoke screen that was being peddled in this forum. But we
can see through what these people are trying to do. Instead of addressing
the issues at hand, they are boring us with their nostalgic feelings about
some thuggish diplomacy. Who can Yaya (with his unfinished high school
education and lack of worldly experience) give sound advice to? I pity the
Guinea Bissau people if it would take the likes of Yaya to bring peace to
their country. I wished Yaya and his cohorts used the same diplomatic savvy
and engaged the students in dialogue on April 10 and 11. But that is asking
too much of a government that does not have good ideas to combat their
opposition. They live in a world where might makes right. Always trying to
subdue people by force. But they must realize that Senegal has one of the
best trained military in Africa. They were busy in theaters like Lebanon
before our 'army' was born. So the irresponsible government in The Gambia
should not be playing with fire. What happened to the Senegalese in Bissau
should not be a source of glee and comfort to us Gambians. American soldiers
were killed in Vietnam, but that does not mean that a country like Cambodia
can now use that to justify provoking the Americans into war. We must not
let these irresponsible people put us at war with our neighbors, families
and friends. The Gambian people do not have a quarrel with Wade or Senegal
or Guinea Bissau. Yaya is a mad man and surrounded by spineless people who
were good for nothing in Gambia before Yaya (TEKI WUNGE DARA). These people
would do anything to stay in power; including killing defenseless children
in broad daylight. Since the Yaya rep in France is back on the list, he
might want to enlighten us on the gift the French government gave Yaya (not
the Gambian people) in the aftermath of the April 10 and 11 massacres. Did
he broker that 'peace deal' too?
KB

>From: ebou colly <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
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>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: GAMBIA ACQUIRES LOTS OF ARMS FROM LIBYA WADE SPOKE CORRECTLY
>Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 14:24:16 -0700
>
>                                   GAMBIA ACQUIRES LOTS
>OF ARMS FROM
>                                     LIBYA  WADA SPOKE
>CORRECTLY
>
>The latest controversy over the Cassamance and the
>weapons- from-Libya issue, another political
>back-blasts against Yaya’s deceptive diplomatic
>activities came to me not as a surprise at all.
>Looking at it objectively, Ex-President Abdou Joof
>might have by now ended up accusing Yaya of the very
>things President Wada is attacking the Gambia
>government of wrongly doing behind their back.
>President Joof who seemed to have been playing for
>time in order to wait for the outcome of the last
>presidential election he lost was in the end fully
>aware that Yaya’s mediation efforts in the Cassamance
>problem was all deception. Anyhow it was also possible
>that President Joof was certain of his political
>downfall; hence he finally decided to wait and later
>pass the burden of the Cassamance problem to his
>successor, a crisis the former president later found,
>wrongly or rightly, associated with his personal
>political ineptitude.
>
>Yet I can bet my soul that President Joof in his final
>days was fully aware of the deceptive position of the
>Gambia Government on the Cassamance crisis that is now
>over a decade and half old. In early 1999 for
>instance, when Yaya just started his Cassamance
>diplomatic initiative, the Libyan government delivered
>multiple-“Katusha”- rockets to the State House which
>the whole diplomatic community in the Gambia including
>the Senegalese Ambassador in The Gambia were aware of
>at the time. These weapons were never taken to the
>GNA, yet they were known for their destructive
>ballistic capability of hitting 25-kilometer range and
>can simultaneously fire 120 rounds when mounted on the
>three vehicles they were supplied with. I have the
>inventory information to these weapons and more deadly
>ones supplied to Yaya by the Libyan government, which
>were discreetly collected from Yundum International
>Airport at the nights, they were delivered. These
>weapons were directly transported to the State House
>and later transferred to Kaninlai for reasons known to
>Yaya alone. The GNA had nothing to do with them, and
>whether they are still in the Gambia at all is another
>food for thought. If they are still in the Gambia
>however nobody should be worried about any threat they
>may pose. Yaya does not understand the dynamics of
>such weapons, technically or tactically. The day he
>attempts to employ them in a combat field will be the
>day he spells him final doom.
>
>  Or should I give the armored-carriers inventory and
>their weaponry supplied to the Gambia by Libya two
>years ago? So what is Dr. Sidat protesting about in
>President Wada’s correct statement that The Gambia
>government was acquiring weapons from Libya?  But
>perhaps, Dr.Sidat Jobe may never have had any
>knowledge of these weapons, because being the
>intellectual whore he is to Jammeh, his master hardly
>gave him the correct picture of what he is up to,
>especially those hidden devious activities he always
>has under his nasty sleeves. However, if Dr.Jobe is
>honest to himself, a rear quality among those who have
>surrendered their souls to this despot, he should be
>cautiously conducting his errands knowing that Yaya is
>not at all a neutralists in the Cassamance conflict.
>That is why on the numerous times the Gambia
>government had gathered the MFDC and the Senegalese
>government representatives for peace talks at Atlantic
>Hotel Banjul, not for once did Yaya attend or make his
>position known to the public on the irreconcilable
>disagreement of the two parties. Understandably, the
>rebels have been calling for total independence and
>nothing less, while the Senegalese government, has
>made it crystal clear that independence for the
>province was out of all discussable agenda. Now, if
>Yaya came up with the peace proposal, how come since
>that time no body knows where he stands on these two
>antagonistic positions? And if he is the neutralist he
>is claiming to be in the crisis, what are his special
>ideas acceptable by both parties for a long term
>solution to the problem?  Take it from me, the moron
>has none. No wonder, almost every time a meeting was
>held at the Atlantic Hotel, the rebels would in the
>next day launch a cross-border raid from Bissau into
>Cassamance. Did any one ever stop to ask why things
>should happen that way? The answer is simple. Yaya
>privately speaks with double tongue on this Cassamance
>issue. When privately talking to former President Joof
>about his position, Yaya would give the impression
>that he was against the rebel’s demand for
>independence, the very contrary position he would
>privately impress to the rebels. Therefore coming out
>publicly to say whose position he supports would
>expose him to either the rebels or the Senegalese
>government.
>
>Anyway, Yaya’s commitment for the Cassamance rebels to
>have independence is an open secret to those of us who
>were very close to him; and Dr. Sidat Jobe is no
>exception among those inner core close associates.
>Yaya would always, with mad obsession  insult and
>swear against Senegal for disallowing Cassamance to
>have its independence although he would still be
>shameless to call Abdou Joof telling him sweet words
>about how he disagreed with the rebels’ demand for
>independence.
>
>Another secret I must reveal to show Yaya’s deceptive
>position on the Cassamance conflict is the fact that
>he has been encouraged and fully approved the
>treatment of wounded rebels at the RVH in Banjul. We
>had challenged him on the dangerous ramifications of
>the practice in the wake of his mediation efforts but
>he has always defiantly stated that the rebels had the
>right to be given all treatment in his country.
>Statistics of rebels being treated with gun shot
>wounds at the RVH are available at the hospital’s
>records office. There is no doubt that the Senegalese
>intelligence was tracking all these Jammeh activities.
>Most likely, that may have contributed to Yaya’s
>construction of a more accessible hospital at Bwiam.
>But funny-talking Dr. Jobe might miss all these
>things. Now I am telling him with my eyes and ears all
>opened to monitor his activities. I have more to tell
>if he so needs it.
>
>Abdou Joof might have been too much a spent force to
>mind the fool’s actions but Abdoulie Wada who is just
>fresh on the treacherous arena would not unnecessarily
>“Maslaha” to the detriment of a state he is honestly
>inclined to build for the Senegalise people. So let
>Dr. Sidat Jobe shut up if he cannot tell the truth.
>
>
>Ebou Colly
>
>
>
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