Mr Sam, I think you should just be magnanimous an brave to acknowledge the
truth espoused by batch. I have been keenly following the discourse between
you and him but I have come to the conclusion that you are a very
disgruntled person; after sharing the cherry pickings with Jammeh. What can
you teach the Gambian people after collaborating with both the Jawara and
Jammeh regime to help oppress the Gambian people. I HAVE NEVER READ ANYTHING
POLITICAL FROM YOU EXCEPT NOW.In many respect you are very similar to Lawyer
Darbo. Darbo untill the ousting of the PPP WAS REALLY ENJOYING WITH LOTS OF
PATRONAGE from the former regime. He use to amass a lot of money as the
corporate lawyer of all the major institutions such as GAMTEL, SOCIAL
SECURITY,GPMB etc. When all these were remove from him he decided to jump in
desperation to join the struggle. Where was he with all his constitutional
ideas when Gambia was still having an inherited flawed neo-colonial
constitution, he could not care less at the time. You see the analogy came
about because many of you who were the oppressors or acquiesced oppressors
have all of a sudden appeared like locusts and proclaim to be the watch dogs
of human rights, what I like to tell you is we are no longer fools.  In as
much as we want Jammeh to go we do not want your type, full of arrogance and
deceit, trying to hood-wink the people into beleiving that you have always
have a sense of justice. What were your conversations with Jammeh like when
you use to share[ attaya], did you sing his praises or told him how
autocratic he was. I bet you were like E bou Jallow who use to be so much
ovezealous that he described him as A PROPHET.

It would be very sincere if you and Chongaan appologised for your dreadful
acts committed in the name of military service. History shall call all of
you to answer before the altar of justice. For now we are dealing with
Jammeh, but you lot shall also answer to many charges. History shall recall
you and your acts.


>From: ebou colly <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: THE BIGGER PICTURE (Ebou Colley)
>Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 21:21:56 -0700
>
>It was rather unfortunate that my last piece was
>perceived by some people, I sincerely respect, as
>rather offensive to them. Certainly, I did not mean to
>hurt anybody as such especially those I consider very
>helpful to the struggle bring down the Yaya leadership
>down.
>Anyway I think the issues raised emanated more from
>ordinary misunderstanding than otherwise. So for the
>good ones like Joe Sambou and Sister Jabou Joh, I
>would not mind resolving the matter privately, since
>my time is very limited for anything else outside my
>program of work.
>I was however pleased that some other readers who
>seemed to have understood the premise of my discourse
>better dealt with some of the issues raised.
>You see, it may be hard to explain but looking at
>things from a realistic vantage, one would perhaps be
>more understanding to my position. For months now I
>have been trying alone to explain with all sincerity
>the events, particularly the ordeal we went through as
>soldiers during the 1994 coup. And despite the fact
>that everything I stated so far was the truth and the
>truth only, I have been insulted, doubted, called a
>story teller, a soap opera producer, a bigot and all
>what not by some readers who don't have a clue about
>what transpired.  Others have even classified me as a
>mere loser enraged by the power and luxuries I lost in
>the APRC government. Then when for the first time
>another military officer, a credible witness to a
>special situation of great importance surfaced to
>corroborate my statement he got hounded far beyond
>what could be termed normal. I believe that the
>attempt made to demonize Chongan at that point was
>somehow an indirect effort to also put more doubt in
>my credibility. I would have viewed Chongan's critics
>differently if those who had accused him of torture
>and abuse of human rights had presented more concrete
>evidences by giving specifics rather than the
>generalized allegations they had presented against the
>officer. My first decision was to explain the details
>behind the difficult conditions Chongan was compelled
>to work under, in an atmosphere that sometimes left
>him with no option but to act tough or else lose his
>command control. That was the bigger picture I had
>meant to explain, which I did, on the
>post-confederation security lapse suffered by both
>Senegal and The Gambia.
>But while I was struggling reconcile the negative
>effects the attack on Chongan may have had on him and
>those other witness-officers who perhaps could have
>been encouraged by Chongan's gesture to come forward
>also but now would give it up in fear of the
>unnecessary attacks, Batch surfaced with a more
>destructive agenda.
>Batch the greatest liar I have ever read who seemed to
>have been waiting for nothing but the opportunity to
>attack my character or past record with nothing
>substantial chose this Chongan moment to declare his
>meticulously planned war. So while others were
>genuinely out to place Chongan where they thought he
>belonged, Batch was happy that the chance he was
>waiting for to submit his first set of lies against me
>had come. His attacks were guided by no rules of
>decency, conscience or godliness.
>The issue of the Farafenni attackers he started with
>was elaborately dealt with a couple of months ago when
>somebody culled an article from one of the private
>news papers in The Gambia on the extradition of
>seemingly innocent Gambians from Senegal in 1997 in
>which the report insinuated that I took a rather
>unethical role in the process. In that episode, it
>took me a painstaking period to explain the whole
>story behind those extradited men from Senegal. They
>were the same rebels whose colleagues later attacked
>Farafenni. For those who read Batche's lies in which
>he futilely attempted to portray these men as victims
>of my command, they clearly put it to him that his
>allegations were unfounded. The TV interview about the
>captured rebels he was trying to juggle with in his
>first set of lies was recorded and distributed all
>over the world and it was evident to those who viewed
>it that the men were not the helpless saints as
>portrayed. That is why I took my time to highlight the
>profiles of these vicious killers who were best kept
>in handcuffs as common murderers are treated. I also
>took the trouble briefly to talk about the good young
>soldiers they killed in cold blood.
>Apart from that, other readers underscored the
>importance of the state duty we had fulfilled in
>crushing that unpopular insurgency.
>So now that his first big lie has been reduced to what
>it really was the clown decided to change the position
>of the goal post and come up with more lies and
>baseless allegations. Let us now look at his latest
>text line by line. It would be easier and clearer to
>deal with in this approach.
>
>Dear Samsudeen,
>
>Thank you very much for your response to my
>accusations of arrogance
>and
>pomposity that you displayed when you were still the
>Army Commander of
>the
>Gambia National Army. It is a very welcome and
>courageous gesture, on
>your
>part, to take up the challenge to defend yourself.
>This is what we
>need. If
>all Gambians in positions of responsibility are
>prepared to be taken to
>task
>to answer to their words and deeds whilst in positions
>of authority,
>Gambia
>will be able to build a very mature, dignified and
>informed citizenry
>who
>can never be fooled or taken for granted by any person
>or group of
>persons.
>
>I have, however, never hoped that our debate will
>extend so much beyond
>rhetorics to the point where you use angry invectives
>and witticisms
>only to
>try to confuse and befog the fundamental issues that I
>raised.
>
>Sam, I had never intended to go this far with you
>because of two
>considerations. Firstly, in spite of our differences I
>still held you
>in
>high esteem as a "koto". And secondly, and most
>importantly, I have
>always
>had the opinion and belief that at this critical
>moment of our history
>when
>the dignity and conscience of our nation are everyday
>continuously
>being
>trampled upon and compromised by the actions of those
>at the helm, it
>behoves all its citizens to create a forum of
>discourse where our
>common
>interest will be discussed and a clear path paved for
>the future.
>
>However, hence you have decided to blow the whistle
>for a rough race, I
>have
>no alternative but to take up the challenge with you
>to the end.
>
>It is, of course, unfortunate that the time that
>should have been spent
>discussing other productive and more pertinent issues
>will now be spent
>in
>refuting allegations and justifying one's actions.
>Why not Batch? Allegations that are baseless must be
>refuted especially when one's actions does not show
>anything close to what has been asserted by a confused
>hate creature.
>
>Sam, I must admit that the language that you used in
>your exposition is
>not
>the type of language that I expected from an astute
>intellectual and a
>seasoned military heavyweight of your calibre. You
>have used all sorts
>of
>adjectives ranging "meaningless creatures" to
>"nonentities". I do not
>feel
>offended in anyway. I only wonder how you would have
>perceived me had I
>described you as one of the cheapest intellectual
>whores ever in
>Gambian
>history, who after being used by the "moron" and
>dumped, is so filled
>with
>rage and frustration that he is beginning to lose all
>his senses of
>direction. Of course, you would have classified me as
>somebody who
>hates
>you, and who is only interested in tarnishing your
>records. I will
>definitely not stoop so low like you. "That's another
>one of your lies you are trying to present shrewdly.
>To say that Yaya used me and dumped me resulting to my
>anger and frustration is blatant ignorance of the
>circumstance that led to my parting with the system.
>Did you ever hear the reason why I fell apart with the
>Yaya government? Did you ever ask your dishonest self
>why the APRC government never gave an official version
>of how I left the army? Or did you come up with your
>own fabrication to be used in your series of lies
>later. Bacth I am not as cheep as you or your gang of
>conspirators. I worked in that government with god in
>my heart, my conscience guiding me and strongly
>committed to my principles. When my principles were
>challenged, I counter-challenged my authorities and
>showed them where my boundaries were drawn. So don't
>bother us with that generalization that I was used and
>dumped without any evidence or specifics. The army was
>a life and death environment. I am therefore happy
>that I left that job in one piece. One bullet in my
>thigh was enough. I have missed death several times in
>being a soldier. So nursing in your envious mind that
>we were employed in a job full of fun and luxury is an
>unfortunate belief in your sorry head. Oh, but I
>almost forgot; a liar is a liar regardless of what. .
>Talking about not stooping so low? You are nothing but
>filth and dirt.
>Let's go further into your shameless garbage.
>
>When I first took issue with you, my central point of
>emphasis was
>two-fold
>- one, the way and manner in which you went about
>mystifying the
>so-called
>"impregnable" fortress of State House where your
>biggest demon still
>hides;
>and secondly the brutality that the captured
>"mercenaries" were
>subjected to
>by having their hands handcuffed together at their
>backs, and the signs
>of
>merciless torture that was so naked on their bodies.
>No Lia,r your central point was my pomposity and
>arrogance and how best you could portray me as a
>serial torturer or even murderer. Furthermore, as I
>said earlier you failed to let the common reader
>understand that you were talking about hard-core
>murderers who had just murdered six innocent soldiers
>and critically wounding six others, some of them
>permanently disabled. Now it is "their handcuffed
>hands together behind their backs and the SIGNS of
>merciless torture that was so naked on their bodies.
>Signs my foot! Tell us where they were tortured who
>tortured them and when. Knowing that you had watched
>everything on TV, your dishonesty would disallow your
>cynic mind to remember that these were men who
>suffered gun shots too during the attack while some of
>them ran from the Gambia to Senegal on a stressful
>condition. Remember Sulayman Sarr narrating that Sonko
>his partner shot him in the early part of the attack.
>He fled to a hospital in Kaolack where the Senegalese
>authorities later arrested him and handed him over in
>a stretcher. Mballow Kanteh was also shot in the leg.
>Drammeh was found by school children playing at the
>outskirts of their village, helpless with exhaustion.
>The villagers captured him and handed him over to the
>police. You see, I am giving you specifics. That is
>what I expect from your dishonest self. Tell me about
>the specifics of the torture you are lying about me.
>Don't cloud it with your devious habit of bluffing
>your way through it. Tell the facts loser.
>About my statements discouraging armed attackers from
>attempting to attack State House, I strongly believed
>it was my duty to say so. What's the fuss about that?.
>Did you want me to call on potential attackers to hit
>the State House? Be real with your self, Batch.
>tried,
>as much as you could, to portray me as an insensible
>hardcore saddist
>who
>was not prepared to take cognisance of the brutal
>mutilation of those
>young
>and innocent soldiers. You are worse than an
>insensible sadist in this case. I don't know when you
>started viewing them as "young and innocent soldiers".
>
>Sam, people in positions of authority, like you were,
>must never see
>themselves as ordinary people. Your words are not also
>ordinary and
>meaningless. You must understand that your every word
>carries weight
>and
>authority to the ordinary mind, and can invoke passive
>influence,
>especially
>if they are not enlightening words. What enlightening
>word? Wild statements again. Get to the specifics;
>hammer that in your confused head..
>
>Secondly, it is needless for me the "nonentity", to
>tell you that it
>is a
>basic tenet of natural justice that an accused person
>must be presumed
>innocent until proven guilty. Please read yourself
>again, and see how
>you
>expressed being guided by no other thing than mere
>emotions and
>sentiments.
>What if you had paraded these "mercenaries" before a
>court of law only
>for
>them to be acquitted and discharged?
>You see how presumptuous you ended your lecture on
>what the basic tenant of natural justice means? Even
>elementary school going kids understand that clause of
>the law. Where did I express being guided by no other
>than mere emotions and sentiment? I can't even make
>sense of what you were trying to say here. Could you
>clarify next time? Of course I'll be waiting for the
>next set of lies.
>Then you fired your irrelevant question of-"what if
>you had paraded these mercenaries before a court of
>law only for them to be acquitted and discharged?"
>Here you showed your transparent wishful sentiments.
>With the confidence and guts you are trying to project
>around, tell me about definitive conclusions and not
>speculative ones. The cases of those killers were not
>a matter of whether or not when they were caught on
>the actual act.
>Where were you at that time not to raise your concerns
>loud and clear? Or were you still the meaningless
>Samba Linguire we are hearing from now? Or were you
>sitting somewhere in a hidden corner theorizing to
>your disciples over the lies you had fabricated about
>the event?
>
>Sam, your position is a clear manifestation of how
>intolerant to
>Justice you
>are. This is an invariable characteristic of tyrants
>who hold justice
>in
>contempt. Such people, like you, only believe in the
>might at their
>disposal. You accuse Jammeh of being a tyrant and
>being insensitive to
>the
>rule of law, but you never sit down, for a moment, to
>reflect on your
>everyday actions to measure your own credentials.
>People like you are
>only
>interested in drowning the senses of the ordinary
>person in a sea of
>passion, full stop.
>Sweeping statements again coated in high-sounding
>words that mean nothing. Were you a Marxist?
>
>In your usual and dishonest attempt to befog the
>issue, you wrote
>"These
>were the mercenaries being termed humbled now. It is
>very likely that
>this
>chap, like his kinds, had jubilated over the death of
>those innocent
>soldiers for no reason other than the fact that they
>were Gambians who
>looked too pompous and arrogant to him."
>What can I say?  You started your nonsense with me,
>calling me pompous and arrogant when you don't know
>what was in my mind that day. So if you go further to
>express your sympathy to those who killed men under my
>care without further explaining your callous attitude,
>I have all right to search for the most logical reason
>from you, which is in my book hate. And the best way
>you expressed that was not by seeing me as not hurt
>and offended by the tragedy but by being arrogant and
>pompous.
>Your tendency to misinterpret and twist facts to suit
>your own
>situation has
>again surfaced here. You have the natural orgy to
>always want to move a
>step
>ahead by making wrong inferences and drawing wrong
>conclusions aimed at
>broadening the scope of the subject matter to create
>the most positive
>impression of yourself. You are so pathologically
>inclined to
>exaggerating
>everything that surrounds you to the extent that you
>have unconsciously
>distorted your mannerisms and the way you walk just to
>achieve this
>state of
>esctacy and self satisfaction.
>
>Have I mentioned anywhere before that these innocent
>soldiers were
>pompous
>and arrogant? This charge was/is still specifically
>directed at you,
>and by
>your very response you have nakedly exposed yourself
>to be even more
>arrogant and less intelligent than I had thought.
>
>I knew Saidy very well. In fact you will be surprise
>to know that I
>knew him
>so well. What a shy and humble character he was. I had
>a personal
>social
>relationship with not only him but his family at
>Jeshwang. How will I
>be
>happy with the senseless killing of such a young,
>innocent and
>exuberant
>person. A wasted life! It's interesting the way you
>become political here. Are you a politician? Trying to
>cover your insensitive remarks now, eh? My friend it
>was not Saidy alone, but six good men who feared god
>and worked hard to keep up their families. They had
>never hurt a fly much more a person. And they were
>serving the nation with total loyalty.
>
>You then went further to write a long and whining
>expose, all meant to
>create the impression that you were the brain child
>and best tactician
>of
>the army. I am, however, not impressed by it because,
>in practical
>terms,
>you were right there among the top brass of the armed
>forces when less
>than
>a dozen ill-armed bandits attacked and took over the
>Farafenni camp for
>some
>hours. I will be very bold to hold you, and the entire
>state machinery,
>responsible for the death of all those young soldiers,
>and you will one
>day
>stand to answer these charges. Your inefficiency, your
>lack of a
>coordinated
>master-plan, your lethargy and your ever growing
>conspicuous
>consumption
>habits are what led to that brutal and surprise
>attack. Your whole
>objective
>is to detach yourself from the responsibility; but
>history shall indict
>you.
>Try the archives of the G-L and you will see what I
>wrote about the Farafenni attack few months ago  in
>two episodes. That will help you to cancel another lie
>in your hollow mind. But with the dishonest person I
>see in you, I am sure you have even read that. After
>all you seem to be echoing the very sentiments I
>concluded that narrative with.
>It's unfortunate, but your limitation in coming up
>with original ideas of your own even when fabricating
>your habitual lies leaves Batch with no specifics.
>What can you tell anybody realistically original to
>indict any one of us on anything about that attack?
>Now the mercenaries' case in which you just gave me a
>long lecture about how natural justice work on people
>presumed innocent until found guilty; the men you said
>with sentiments "What if they were proven innocent in
>a court of law", have now, in your book, become
>criminals whose crimes should warrant my indictment.
>Because I failed in my duty as commander. Can you see
>how funny your mind works turkey? This is you,
>twisting facts with, exaggerations here and there just
>to hit a home run. I can swear that you are a
>faithless politician.
>
>It is only now that real military thoughts and tactics
>are dawning into
>your
>hollow head again, but those days when you rode high
>and alone in an
>aura of
>a "mansa", your only thoughts were how to increase
>your fill and your
>privileges. You were comfortably chauffeur-driven in
>one of the most
>expensive pajeros of the state, guided by some of the
>most experienced
>guards, feared by the majority of people because of
>your arrogance and
>your
>tendency to react to situations, even where it is
>unwarranted.
>  The
>state
>could not check you because you were part of the
>state, just like Baba
>Jobe
>is behaving now. And yet you have the audacity and the
>insincerity to
>spell
>doom on that very baby you helped to nurture. What a
>shame!! You are
>nothing
>but a spineless opportunist, full stop.
>There you go again with your shameless lies. Did you
>ever see me with guards? Name one place where you saw
>me being driven around with guards. And apart from
>ceremonial duties where it was a SOP for me to be
>driven by a chauffeur, I had always driven myself. Do
>you forget how small the country is? How people of my
>position acted or interacted with the small Gambian
>community was common knowledge to all. So shoot a lie
>about where you ever saw me being driven and protected
>by the most experienced guards. Who were the most
>experienced guards?. Or was that just an exaggerated
>lie. You don't know how the GNA personnel are
>classified; yet here you are deceiving people to think
>that you even know the most experienced ones and the
>ones who were not? You ungodly wimp.
>
>Your opposition to Jammeh and Baboucarr Jatta, in
>particular, is not
>based
>on any genuine and sincere grounds. You are opposed to
>these few
>personalities not because of what they stand for but
>because of who
>they
>are. Sam, I dare say it loud and clear that you are
>opposed to Jammeh
>and
>Jatta because of tribal reasons. They are Jolas, and
>you cannot still
>reconcile yourself to this fact. It is not only you.
>So many people are
>still infected with this sickness. Your anti-Jola
>campaign is not only
>a
>repeat of the old colonial tactic of weakening
>national unity by
>encouraging
>ethnic divisions, but a deliberate and calculated
>tactic to plunge the
>country into an unprecedented tribal rivalry and
>elimination.
>
>In fact this is the very reason why you choose to use
>EBOU COLLEY as a
>pseudonym in order to mask your tribal sentiments, not
>knowing that
>whilst
>you may succeed in sneaking and hiding your face into
>the hole, your
>buttocks is so nakedly exposed to the outside world
>that even toddlers
>can
>see it.
>This is one of my favorite parts. Accusing me of
>tribalism, a colonial stigma you think is deeply
>instilled in some Gambian's minds like mine. After
>saying nothing to defend your foolishness again, you
>finally brought in the pen name Ebou Colly that I have
>been using ever since. So you think I am trying to
>hide while my buttocks is in the open? Now let me tell
>you again about specifics you can verify from other
>living Gambians. You see while we were in jail in
>1994, we realized that all the detainees were
>non-Jolas, and worst of all the guards were all under
>the supervision of senior Jola officers with David
>Colly being their head. We also learnt that confused
>people like you were going around the country selling
>crap about the reason for our detention. You were the
>very people lying all over the country that there was
>a power struggle at the state house, something you
>dangerously sold as normal in coup situations-which
>led to those with the upper hand taking control over
>the weaker ones. Could yor recall your lies on our
>detention?
>As a result we the detainees decided to organize a
>writing group that started writing stories for
>publication outside to help us gain our freedom.. Ask
>Sheriff Giomez, Chogan, Press Jagne, Mamat Cham, to
>name a few, how we adopted this name Ebou Colly in
>consensus for our publication. With this name Ebou
>Colly we had sent published articles to the
>independent press and even to BBC world service. But
>Sa
>--- Samba Linguere <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Dear Samsudeen,
> >
> > Thank you very much for your response to my
> > accusations of arrogance and
> > pomposity that you displayed when you were still the
> > Army Commander of the
> > Gambia National Army. It is a very welcome and
> > courageous gesture, on your
> > part, to take up the challenge to defend yourself.
> > This is what we need. If
> > all Gambians in positions of responsibility are
> > prepared to be taken to task
> > to answer to their words and deeds whilst in
> > positions of authority, Gambia
> > will be able to build a very mature, dignified and
> > informed citizenry who
> > can never be fooled or taken for granted by any
> > person or group of persons.
> >
> > I have, however, never hoped that our debate will
> > extend so much beyond
> > rhetorics to the point where you use angry
> > invectives and witticisms only to
> > try to confuse and befog the fundamental issues that
> > I raised.
> >
> > Sam, I had never intended to go this far with you
> > because of two
> > considerations. Firstly, in spite of our differences
> > I still held you in
> > high esteem as a "koto". And secondly, and most
> > importantly, I have always
> > had the opinion and belief that at this critical
> > moment of our history when
> > the dignity and conscience of our nation are
> > everyday continuously being
> > trampled upon and compromised by the actions of
> > those at the helm, it
> > behoves all its citizens to create a forum of
> > discourse where our common
> > interest will be discussed and a clear path paved
> > for the future.
> >
> > However, hence you have decided to blow the whistle
> > for a rough race, I have
> > no alternative but to take up the challenge with you
> > to the end.
> >
> > It is, of course, unfortunate that the time that
> > should have been spent
> > discussing other productive and more pertinent
> > issues will now be spent in
> > refuting allegations and justifying one's actions.
> >
> > Sam, I must admit that the language that you used in
> > your exposition is not
> > the type of language that I expected from an astute
> > intellectual and a
> > seasoned military heavyweight of your calibre. You
> > have used all sorts of
> > adjectives ranging "meaningless creatures" to
> > "nonentities". I do not feel
> > offended in anyway. I only wonder how you would have
> > perceived me had I
> > described you as one of the cheapest intellectual
> > whores ever in Gambian
> > history, who after being used by the "moron" and
> > dumped, is so filled with
> > rage and frustration that he is beginning to lose
> > all his senses of
> > direction. Of course, you would have classified me
> > as somebody who hates
> > you, and who is only interested in tarnishing your
> > records. I will
> > definitely not stoop so low like you.
> >
> > When I first took issue with you, my central point
> > of emphasis was two-fold
> > - one, the way and manner in which you went about
> > mystifying the so-called
> > "impregnable" fortress of State House where your
> > biggest demon still hides;
> > and secondly the brutality that the captured
> > "mercenaries" were subjected to
> > by having their hands handcuffed together at their
> > backs, and the signs of
> > merciless torture that was so naked on their bodies.
> > Of course, you tried,
> > as much as you could, to portray me as an insensible
> > hardcore saddist who
> > was not prepared to take cognisance of the brutal
> > mutilation of those young
> > and innocent soldiers.
> >
> > Sam, people in positions of authority, like you
> > were, must never see
> > themselves as ordinary people. Your words are not
> > also ordinary and
> > meaningless. You must understand that your every
> > word carries weight and
> > authority to the ordinary mind, and can invoke
> > passive influence, especially
> > if they are not enlightening words. This was the
> > crux of my argument.
> >
> > Secondly, it is needless for m,e the "nonentity", to
> > tell you that it is a
> > basic tenet of natural justice that an accused
> > person must be presumed
> > innocent until proven guilty. Please read yourself
> > again, and see how you
> > expressed being guided by no other thing than mere
> > emotions and sentiments.
> > What if you had paraded these "mercenaries" before a
> > court of law only for
> > them to be acquitted and discharged?
> >
> > Sam, your position is a clear manifestation of how
> > intolerant to justice you
> > are. This is an invariable characteristic of tyrants
> > who hold justice in
> > contempt. Such people, like you, only believe in the
> > might at their
> > disposal. You accuse Jammeh of being a tyrant and
> > being insensitive to the
> > rule of law, but you never sit down, for a moment,
> > to reflect on your
> > everyday actions to measure your own credentials.
> > People like you are only
> > interested in drowning the senses of the ordinary
> > person in a sea of
> > passion, full stop.
> >
> > In your usual and dishonest attempt to befog the
> > issue, you wrote "These
> > were the mercenaries being termed humbled now. It is
> > very likely that this
> > chap, like his kinds, had jubilated over the death
> > of those innocent
> > soldiers for no reason other than the fact that they
> > were Gambians who
> > looked too pompous and arrogant to him."
> >
> > Your tendency to misinterpret and twist facts to
> > suit your own situation has
> > again surfaced here. You have the natural orgy to
> > always want to move a step
> > ahead by making wrong inferences and drawing wrong
> > conclusions aimed at
> > broadening the scope of the subject matter to create
> > the most positive
> > impression of yourself. You are so pathologically
> > inclined to exaggerating
> > everything that surrounds you to the extent that you
> > have unconsciously
> > distorted your mannerisms and the way you walk just
> > to achieve this state of
> > esctacy and self satisfaction.
> >
> > Have I mentioned anywhere before that these innocent
> > soldiers were pompous
> > and arrogant? This charge was/is still specifically
> > directed at you, and by
> > your very response you have nakedly exposed yourself
> > to be even more
> > arrogant and less intelligent than I had thought.
> >
> > I knew Saidy very well. In fact you will be surprise
> > to know that I knew him
> > so well. What a shy and humble character he was. I
> > had a personal social
> > relationship with not only him but his family at
> > Jeshwang. How will I be
> > happy with the senseless killing of such a young,
> > innocent and exuberant
> > person. A wasted life!
> >
> > You then went further to write a long and whining
> > expose, all meant to
> > create the impression that you were the brain child
> > and best tactician of
> > the army. I am, however, not impressed by it
> > because, in practical terms,
> > you were right there among the top brass of the
> > armed forces when less than
> > a dozen ill-armed bandits attacked and took over the
> > Farafenni camp for some
> > hours. I will be very bold to hold you, and the
> > entire state machinery,
> > responsible for the death of all those young
> > soldiers, and you will one day
> > stand to answer these charges. Your inefficiency,
> > your lack of a coordinated
> > master-plan, your lethargy and your ever growing
> > conspicuous consumption
> > habits are what led to that brutal and surprise
> > attack. Your whole objective
> > is to detach yourself from the responsibility; but
> > history shall indict you.
> >
> > It is only now that real military thoughts and
> > tactics
>=== message truncated ===
>
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