Thanks Astrid for the update What a shame! This is getting out of hand Habib astrid christensen-tasong wrote: > L'ers: > > On Sunday, Alieu Bah a DJ that was threatened on the same night > Radio 1 was burnt, was attacked in his house. Late on Sunday night, > unidentified attackers gained access into the compound, secured the front > door from the outside with wires and then set it on fire. Luckily the > neighbors were alert and they put out the fire. > > No one was injured. The police are investigating. This is the situation now. > Will keep you posted! > > Astrid/ > > >From: "Habib Ghanim, Sr" <[log in to unmask]> > ([log in to unmask] Mon Aug 14 22:37:07 2000 > >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) > >X-Accept-Language: en > >Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> > >Sender: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list > ><[log in to unmask]> > > > > RADIO 1 DJ FLEES HOUSE FOLLOWING THREATS > Posted Monday, August 14, 2000 > >by Editor > > > Alieu Bah, a disc jockey at Radio 1FM, who is also the presenter > >of the station’s popular “lovers Night” show, has reported that a letter of > >threat was dropped in his house, DippaKunda, Serekunda, Thursday, at about > >the time unidentified arsonists attempted to burn the radio station. Mr.Bah > >said the threat was made following the discussion on the Wednesday August 9 > >edition of the alleged impregnation of a taxi driver’s wife by one soldier. > >Alieu Bah said > the letter, which was written in red ink, read: “ Alieu Bah, you > >have your mouth and the radio to talk about peoples private life, but we > >have the power to destroy you. We went to the radio at 3:30pm and missed > >you. But if it was not for your son who lay between you and your wife on > >your bed we were going to burn you and your wife alive (sic). We have > >surveyed your house and had discovered that it is one way out. You don’t > >believe us, inspect your window (and see how we have torn your wire-goss > >and curtain. We will be back.” > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > >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 > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------