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The unedited e-mail below came from a reputable source at State House.

Ebrima

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>Subject: "Many People do not Understand Me", says Yahya Jammeh
>Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003
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>Coach,
>
>Yahya Jammeh has sounded like someone who desperately needs good love from
>the very people who have allegedly voted for him during the last
>presidential elections. In his heart of hearts, Yahya knows that the
>majority of Gambians never voted for him, anyway. Despite the tens of
>thousands of people who were illegally registered, coerced and then
>blackmailed into voting for him with the active collaboration of Gabriel
>Roberts and the IEC, Yahya has failed to garner an impressive winning
>margin against his opponents. Now knowing Yahya Jammeh as well as I do, he
>will never forgive Gambians for providing him with ONLY 52% of the total
>presidential votes despite massive rigging never seen before in Gambian
>election history.  His veil threats at "Kerr Cherno" village yesterday when
>he declared that year 2003 is a year of "no mas-lah" and that those who do
>not want peace and development is "another matter" is yet another clear
>manifestation of the last kicks of a dying donkey.  Yahya Jammeh and Jaliba
>Yankuba Touray are fully aware of the rapidly-changing demographics of the
>Gambian electoral landscape ushered in, unwittingly, by their bad economic
>policies, courtesy of Famara Jatta, coupled with an ill-concieved and
>half-baked foreign policy engineered by Blaise Jagne.  Thanks to Famara
>Jatta and Blaise Jagne, those illegal voters from the Cassamance are
>returning in droves as a result of the combined effect of the 2003 budget
>and foreign policy designed to antagonize the Senegalese.  The 2006
>election, should we get to it, will not afford them the same opportunity of
>dipping into the pool of foreigners, namely Senegalese, to register them to
>vote in Gambian elections.  The Senegalese government, on the other hand,
>has let it be known that they will not do business with Jammeh and Blaise
>Jagne who never hesitate to show their respective contempt for President
>Wade and his government. The Senegalese government on the other hand
>continues to prosecute those Senegalese voters caught with Gambian voters
>card.  For dictator Yahya Jammeh to say that Gambians do not understand him
>is not only an under-statement but a contemptuous one at that.  Gambians
>know him too well and that happens to be the major problem facing him and
>the APRC. Gambians see him as the "soldier with a difference" who mananged
>in seven short years to turn The Gambia into the laughing stock of the
>sub-region, if not in the entire African continent. It is not us, Yahya
>Jammeh, who do not understand you; it's you Jammeh who continues to
>under-estimate our intelligence and test our patience and resolve to the
>limit.  I believe Hamat Bah warned you about not taking too much for
>granted.


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