This man kumba yella or whatever the hell he is, must understand that the power to "smash" Gambia belongs only to Allah. The people of the Gambia are God-fearing and loving and whatever it is between him and the government, should be worked out among themselves. He must not bring us into this. If infact he said this, he must apologise to the people of Gambia. We are not idol worshippers. We turn to Allah for protection. He should know!
For some among us who seem to having fun about this insane story for political or whatever reasons, you need to remember that Gambia is your home too. Don't let anyone to distroy it.
Lamin.
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>Subject: Fwd: Bissau coup attempt. Gambia warned.
>Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 19:32:49 EDT
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>Guinea-Bissau says coup thwarted, warns Gambia
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>LISBON, Portugal (Reuters) - Guinea-Bissau's president said Tuesday a coup
>attempt was thwarted in May and warned the West African nation of Gambia over
>its alleged role in coup plots, the Portuguese news agency Lusa reported.
>
>President Kumba Yalla said in Guinea-Bissau that about two dozen coup
>plotters trained in neighboring Gambia had been arrested in an attempt to
>oust his government on May 22, Lusa said.
>
>The coup attempt was aimed at "overthrowing the democratically elected
>government in Guinea-Bissau," Yalla said, speaking in front of about 300
>people from various national regions and ethnic groups.
>
>He was joined by armed forces chief Verissimo Seabra and Interior Minister
>Rui Sanha. Yalla also made his comments in front of David Stephen, the
>special representative of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan in Guinea-Bissau,
>Lusa said.
>
>Yalla, who was elected president in January 2000, said he would "smash"
>Gambia if President Yahya Jammeh failed to stop backing attempts to
>overthrown the Guinea-Bissau government, Lusa said.
>
>Yalla gave no details about Gambia's alleged involvement in coup attempts.
>However, he noted that Gambia was the birthplace of Brig. Ansumane Mane, the
>one-time head of a military junta shot dead during a November 2000 coup
>attempt.
>
>An alleged coup plotter, reserve army officer Fode Conte, said in a taped
>confession that he feared that he and fellow members of the Mandingo ethnic
>group would be purged from the army.
>
>Conte said on the tape played before onlookers that the plotters planned to
>kill Yalla and other senior military officers from the rival Balanta ethnic
>group, Lusa said.
>
>Yalla said he would grant amnesties to those arrested in the alleged May plot
>as well those detained for a coup attempt in December 2001.
>
>The rumors of a coup and fears of a government and military shake-up have led
>many residents in the capital, Bissau, to make plans to abandon the city,
>Lusa said.
>
>Guinea-Bissau, an impoverished former Portuguese colony of 1.3 million
>people, has been rocked by repeated unrest since an army mutiny in 1998.
>Gambia, a former British colony with fewer than 1.5 million people, is
>separated from Guinea-Bissau by the country of Senegal.
> 06/11/02 13:57 ET
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