According to the panel of experts on Sierra
Leone Diamonds and Arms appointed pursuant to Security
Council Resolution 1343,the personal connections
between President Charles Taylor, Foday Sankoh,sam
Bockarie,Baba Jobe ,Lt.Col.gibriel Massaquoi,General
Ibrahim Bah and Dennis Mingo go back ten years to
their training in Libya,to their combined efforts on
behalf of Blaise Campaore in his seizure of power in
bukina Faso, and to Sankoh's involvement in Charles
Taylor's struggle as head of the NPFL to take power in
Liberia in the early 1990s.
In May 2000,at the time the Lome peace process
collapsed,roughly 12,5000 weapons and 250,000 pieces
of ammunition had been collected at the different
weapons storage centres that had been initiated eight
months earlier.The weapons included the following:
.496 pistols,
.4000 AK-47 "kalashnikov"rifles,
.1,072 AK-47 rifles,
.940 G-3 rifles,
.440 FN-Fal rifles,
.140 machines guns,
.217 Grenade launchers,
.1855 Grenades,
.45 Mortars.
The Gambia Ambassadassor Babucarr Blaise Jagne should
advise the Government properly on this matter because
he knows about the investigations until on one of the
meetings, 4264th meeting thursday,25 January 2001,
3.15 p,m in New York,he called on the panel of experts
to visit Banjul.Also during the same meeting he said
"through the unscrupulous behaviour of some
individuals,it is possible that diamonds might be
passing or passed through the Gambia to other
destinations,but it is preposterous to even insinuate
to such tractions,or derives any revenue from this
illegal trade,either through taxes or otherwise."
The panel didn't mentioned Blaise Jagne himself or
sedat Jobe because they are innocent in the matter,
but only mentioned Baba Jobe because they got tangible
evidence of his involvement from all the corners of
Lybia,Liberia and Sierra Leone.
The security council resolution 1306 [2000]
concerning Sierra Leone was adopted by the security
council on july 5th 2000,the secretary general of the
UN appointed a panel of experts to collect information
on possible violations of the measures and the link
trade in diamonds and trade in Arms and related
materials,and consider the adequacy of control system.
The panel first met at United Nations Headquarters
here in New York on August 21st 2000 and it was
subsequently agreed with the security council sactions
committee on Sierra leone that its report would be
submitted on december 8th 2000.This was subsequently
rescheduled to mid-december 2000.
The panel members attended an intergovernmental
conference on conflict diamonds held in pretoria-south
africa in september 2000.
The panel travelled widely to countries involved in
the diamonds trade,and to countries involved ,or said
to be involved in traffficking of weapons and related
materials to Sierra leone in contravention of Security
Council embargoes.The entire panel visited sierra
Leone twice, and some panel members visited three
times.In addition to Freetown,trips were made to Daru
and to the diamond trading centre on Kenema.
In Guinea,the panel members visited Counakry and
nzerekore.The entire also visited Liberia and South
Africa.Some of the members travelled to
Belgium,Burkina
Faso,Canada,Ghana,France,India,Israel,Mali,Nigeria,
Niger,Ukraine,Uk,US and United Arab Emirates.Stopover
visits were made to Abidjan and Gambia.
In each country panel members met with government
Authorities,and where relevant,with diplomatic
missions,civil society organizations,and
agencies,private sector firms and journalists.the
Panel had acess to a wide range of public and
confidential information provided by official
sources,including law enforcement and intelligence
agencies.The panel also contacted a member of key
individuals and informants under the conditions of
confidentiality,the release added.
Given the sensitive nature of the subject,i am
withdrawing the names of the panel of experts who
recommended the travel band.
I look forward to hear Baba Jobe talks when i will
bring more of the report.
saihou
--- Ebrima Ceesay <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Gambia-L:
>
> The unedited e-mail below, as usual, came from a
> source in the Gambia.
>
> Ebrima Ceesay
>
>
________________________________________________________________
>
> >To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Sedat Jobe:
> Where is Baba Jobe?
> >Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001
> >
> >Ebrima,
> >
> >Jabou Joh's spiel on the belated and inept reaction
> to the UN Security
> >Council's travel ban on Baba Jobe by the Honourable
> Secretary of State
> >Sedat Jobe is spot on. One thing everyone must
> understand is that this
> >Government is on its final days. Therefore they
> will stop at nothing. The
> >Point and Independent have some interesting pieces
> on Sedat Jobe's letter
> >to the UN Security Council. Both articles depict
> the Foreign Secretary as
> >incompetent, dishonest and totally lacking in
> credibility, if he ever had
> >one. The articles will be posted by someone else
> shortly. Back to Jabou's
> >hunches: This Government is curious to know what
> the UN has got on Yaya
> >Jammeh and many other senior Government officials
> so that they can cover
> >themselves. Any additional information on Baba Jobe
> that does not directly
> >implicate Yahya would be of particular interest to
> Yahya, at this juncture,
> >because they will use it against Baba Jobe.Jabou,
> Baba has already been
> >done with in anyway you slice it by Yahya Jammeh
> and his henchmen and
> >women. Meanwhile, could Sedat Jobe tell the Gambian
> people where is Baba
> >Jobe? I am sure and certain that he doesn't know
> the whereabouts of this
> >notoriuos arms trafficker, drug peddler and student
> killer that Sedat Jobe
> >pretends to defend. It's all a ploy, as Jabou Joh
> suspected, to give Baba
> >Jobe the impression that Yahya is behind him, when
> he has already been done
> >with figuratively, at least, if not literally.
> Remember, it has been nearly
> >a week since Baba Jobe was last seen or heard. MAY
> THE LORD DELIVER THE
> >GAMBIA FROM THIS EVIL EMPIRE OF YAHYA JAMMEH. Have
> a good weekend folks.
> >
> >
>
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