Mr Mballow,
 
You are quite right. Unauthorized access into any individual or company's  
data, unlawfully securing that data, and falsely impersonating  them in 
disseminating that data is not something that the authorities  in this country take 
lightly and I agree that this matter should be pursued to  the fullest as it is 
a crime against the Freedom newspaper but it is also a war  that is launched 
against ordinary Gambians' rights to freedom of access to  information. 
 
The Freedom Newspaper should engage some reputable attorneys and pursue  this 
matter with the FCC and the local law enforcement authorities as well as  
with authorities in all of the countries abroad if it is found  that anyone in 
those countries took part in this illegal act. Law  enforcement authorities in 
North Carolina should be brought into this  matter and the FBI should be 
informed by anyone whose life has been  threatened. 
 
The law still works in this country and if the APRC and their supporters  
have gotten used to murdering Gambians and engaging in other unlawful bahaviour  
that goes unpunished and uninvestigated with those who are supposed to be  
guardians of the law actually twisting the law to support them in those  
activities, here, people can still have recourse. Witness if you will  Sheikh Tejan 
Hydara actually having the audacity to stand in-front of a  delegation of the  
African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights and  stating that there are no 
Journalists in their custody when the whereabouts of  one of the journalists 
from the Independent Newspaper is still unknown since the  same government 
arrested him, and likewise stating that the murder of Deyda  Hydara  and the 
attempted murder of Ousman Sillah are still  under
investigation. Either we must have the most incompetent  investigators in the 
Gambia or someone does not want the truth behind these  crimes  to be known.
 
The Jammeh regime is escalating their campaign of terror against  the Gambian 
people leading up to the October elections and this criminal act is  part and 
parcel of that effort.
However, if Saja Taal can actually carry false information on the front  
pages of the Daily Observer and call it fact, then surely Ebou Jallow can come  
here to post false allegations that Pa Nderry Mbai offered to work for and with  
him. It is all part of the deliberate campaign of lies and false allegations 
but  most important of all, it is a symptom of the desperation of this regime 
because  they have to be very desperate and worried in order to try to sell to 
the World  that the people who have and still very much spend time and energy 
all  these years fighting against them and exposing the injustices they are 
heaping  on our people have now joined them even though the entire World can 
log onto the  web-site of the Freedom Newspaper and see that they are still in 
publication and  still very much engaged in exposing this regime, and those on 
the ground reading  this paper can still read this paper and see that it is 
still engaged in  exposing this regime.
 
This idiotic campaign must be intended for those people on the ground in  our 
country who do not have access to the web and who are not literate and who  
they can possibly fool by publishing untruths in the Daily Observer and feeding 
 it to them via the rumour mill. The mass arrest of the subscribers and  even 
non-subscribers is to scare people from reading this paper and the  lies they 
published is intended to convince people that the paper has ceased to  exist 
but one cannot help but laugh at this infantile act because those who can  
access information know these are blatant lies.
 
However, no matter how much lies nor how much falsehood this regime and  
those who serve them in implementing their evil plans continues to  peddle, they 
know they are loosing ground with the ordinary people on the ground  and they 
know that these cheap campaigns of fear are the only tools left to them  and 
everyone is becoming wise to these tactics. 
 
Governments that are up to no good never want the people to have access to  
information and that is one of the reasons this regime did all they could  to 
shut down Mbye Gaye's radio station because he was translating news and  
commentary into all the local languages so all our people can have knowledge of  
what was going on in the country and what those who are governing were up to and  
they knew full well that if the Gambian public in general is well informed, 
this  rogue regime, nor any other will last long. The illegal hacking of the  
Freedom Newspaper is the latest version in that campaign to curtail access to  
information but it is a loosing battle they are fighting and they know it  
well.
 
I would also like to urge the Gambia L management team to  unsubscribe Ebou 
Jallow for now until this matter is resolved so that the L  does not serve as a 
tool for the dissemination of illegally accessed materials  and a smear 
campaign that is clearly intended to not only make allegations  against someone who 
is not subscribed to the L at the moment and  unable to refute any 
allegations made against them, ( I believe this  is one of the bylaws of the L) but also 
may be part of a greater  design that is intended to deprive Gambians both 
abroad and on the  ground the freedom to access information they have a right to 
access if  they so choose. Hacking is illegal and until the matter is 
resolved, the L  should not take the chance.
 
Jabou Joh
 
In a message dated 5/31/2006 7:57:12 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
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Ebou  Jallow you should apologize before it is too late
other wise you will face  the same fate the first
infamous hacker Kevin Mitnick, who was arrested  in
1995 on charges of obtaining unauthorized access to
corporate  computer systems and stealing and copying
proprietary software. Mitnick was  jailed for five
years.Since then many people are serving  sentences
ranging from 5 to 10 years.

The FBI’s National  Infrastructure Protection Center,
an agency responsible for monitoring  computer
terrorism and oversee FBI computer-related crime
investigations  will be inform to take necessary action
within 48 hours, if Ebou Jallow  fails to come up with
an apology or an explanation to Pa Nderry and  Gambians
why he should not be put a party to this legal action
to be  constituted by concern Gambians, we will have no
choice but to go ahead  with our plans of action.

Yahya Jammeh cannot silence all the Gambian  private
Newspapers, private Radio Stations and we condone the
same  behavior from him abroad. It is between life  and
dead.

Saihou





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