Hi Kebba! Sorry for the lateness of the comment on your mail. You wrote: "I can understand if the political parties back home tells us that the timing is not good for them to take certain actions. In that case, people like Hamjatta can work with them to settle timing and other issues." I just want to bring to your attention that Halifa has stated in at least two separate postings that the timing is not right to engage in civil disobedience measures. On Tue, 8 Aug 2000 9:42:33 in an exchange titled "Re: Ebou Jallow: Attn: Mr. Halifa Sallah" Halifa wrote: "We are simply reporting the developments so that people like Musa will see how unconducive it is for PDOIS to call for mass demonstrations and civil disobedience at this very moment.... You want us to call on the UDP supporters, in particular, and the Gambian people, in general, to go on a mass demonstration and engage in civil disobedience at this stage? ... In short, we would certainly be the laughing stock of The Gambia to make such calls at this very juncture... Relying on the developments that have taken place in the case of the UDP and GAMSU, we tried to intimate to Musa that it would be ridiculous for us to call for civil disobedience at this stage; that such actions become necessary when all other lawful actions fail." Halifa also made it known that the time is not right in his reply to Musa Jeng in "Re: Mass Demonstrations and civil disobedience is a viable option" the day before. Thanks. Buharry. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html You may also send subscription requests to [log in to unmask] if you have problems accessing the web interface ----------------------------------------------------------------------------