On Aug 23, 2011 3:21 AM, "Haruna Darbo" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Sanyangba,
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> Thank you for sharing the brilliant Ansu Koroma.
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> Haruna.
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> Subject: [G_L] Fwd: [>-<] COMMENTARY : Jammeh's next.
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> To: ansukoroma <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Mon, Aug 22, 2011 1:56 pm
> Subject: Re: [>-<] COMMENTARY : Jammeh's next.
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> I can't say it any BETTER. Thanks for your insight
> Koroma.Farang.-----Original Message-----From: ansukoroma
> <[log in to unmask]>To: gambiapost <[log in to unmask]>Sent:
> Mon, Aug 22, 2011 4:28 pmSubject: [>-<] COMMENTARY : Jammeh's next.
> Withthe fall of Ben Ali of Tunis, Mubarak of Egypt and now Ghadaffi
> ofLibya, the Arab Spring matches on. Damascus must be very uneasy
> rightabout now, given the sustained violence that Bashar al-Assad
> hasunleashed on the Syrian people for wanting to be free from
> dictatorshipand the decision of President Obama to ask the Syrian
> dictator torelinquish power. Libya is even more instructive and
> relevant to theGambian case in that Mouamar Ghaddafi was not only a
> mentor of YayaJammeh who introduced him to the art of terror but he was
> also hisfirst major financier. Most of the security apparatus
> employedcurrently in The Gambia has a strong Libyan flavor, including
> thetraining of some elements of the Green Boys of Jammeh fashioned on
> theGhaddafi security forces. Yaya Jammeh has been a main beneficiary
> ofGhaddafi largesse but Jammeh became the first to abandon Ghaddafi
> inhis hour of need. To add insult to injury, Jammeh quickly announced
> theseizure of the Ghaddafi's investments in The Gambia only to receive
> astern warning from the Transitional National Council in Banghazi
> thatthe investments were Libya's and not Ghaddafi's. Jammeh quickly
> backedoff - not surprising to those who know Yaya Jammeh to be a
> certifiedcoward. The swift and unexpected fall of Tripoli last night
> wasinstructive in that it was not all what Ghaddafi said it was going
> tobe i.e. that the city was secured and well guarded by his
> well-armedsecurity forces. Obviously, that was not the case given the
> lightenspeed the 'rebels' routed the Ghaddafi forces. It was either
> therewere no superior security forces at all, as claimed by Ghaddafi,
> orthat the security forces decided to lay down their arms and join
> the'rebels' against Ghaddafi. It matters not which of the
> twopossibilities occurred because either scenario is instructive
> forGambia and Gambians that will help us in our fight to dislodge
> thebrutal and corrupt dictatorship of Yaya Jammeh.
> Dictatorshipssubjugate the citizenry through fear and intimidation
> using torture andpropaganda. The Libyan people called Ghaddafi's bluff
> last night andthis morning discovered the Emperor, after all, had no
> clothes.Gambians must draw lessons from the Arab Spring but
> particularly fromthe events unfolding in Benghazi and Tripoli.A. Koroma
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