In a message dated 6/18/00 3:55:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes: << Killing those who set out to kill you is considered legitimate self defense even in Sharia. I know well meaning pacifist would prefer somethingelse . To them I say with people like Yahya Jammeh your available options are nil. Tyrants the world over are not interested in genuine contest of ideas. What drives them is the raw exercise of power. In the process they treat the lives of dissenters and ordinary folk as expendable commodity that must be disposed off if and when it stands in their way. Karamba *************************** This is precisely the point. While I do understand the need to adopt the high road to removing these thugs, one cannot help but be constantly aware that all that effort, correct as it may be, is falling not only on deaf ears, but on ears that neither understand nor appreciate it because for them, it is a matter of just raw power and how to hold on to it. One cannot and will not get results trying to negotiate with, or debate terrorists along constiutional guidelines.For them, It is a game of shifting strategies every time they find themselves in a tight situation, but their goal remains unchanged, no matter the disguise. In the wake of the terroristic and lawless rampage on the Gambian people by the July 22nd movement that was making the banditry of this regime plain as daylight, they gave a semblance of disbanding the movement, a strategy complete with Jammeh delivering his "I am innocent, and these guys are giving me a bad name speech". After the cold blooded murder of our children, the combined pressure from Gambians both at home and abroad, coupled with that of the international community, again another strategy.Jammeh appeared before the people in that ridiculous denial speech to lay the blame elsewhere. Some people seemed to buy these strategies, so they decided to move in for the kill by announcing that there were plans underway to unban some political parties. In other words, give a semblance of dissolving the movement, but send a bunch of them to Libya to be trained in even more murderous tactics.Tell the nation and the World that they are making plans to unban political parties and give them a false sense of security. However, the motives are even more sinister now. It is now becoming apparent that the masterplan is to ambush and murder Gambians as they go about exercising their constitutional right of taking their ideas to their fellow countrymen and women. The idea is to give the World the impression that we are moving towards an atmosphere of tolerance for the opposition parties, but the idea is to ambush and kill them before they get a chance to meet them at the ballot box, and this with the help of the notorious July 22nd movement that was supposedly disbanded.They, like the soldiers who fired the shots at our children get their orders from on high. The colours change, but it is the same deadly chamelion people, so let us pay great attention.We continus t osay it, our nation has been highjacked by a gand of lawless thugs, and they must go! Jabou Joh ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------