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Muhammad Jawara's Challenge
Monday, December 18, 2006 (580 reads)

By Dida Halake.

Pa,

Muhammed Jawara wrote:

"Do not start a debate if you cannot stand the heat...."

Sounds like the Light-weight Sugar Ray challenging the super-fit Heavy-weight Muhammad Ali to a 12-rounder! But, of course, it would be indecent for Muhammad Ali to accept such a challenge, so I will be graceful enough to ignore the gloves young Mr. Jawara has thrown down for me. I'll just ask FREEDOM to be truthful and decent in their stories ("Elvis Presley is alive and well and perfoming at Bakau Stadium this evening" is NOT the kind of headline a self-respecting journalist should run - some of your stories are similar!). Neither is it decent to write stories about people's mothers, wives and daughters - just imagine it is your own family others are writing about. But, otherwise, I wish you peace - in my newly coined phrase as a die-hard Jammeh supporter I say to you: "Chi Jammeh"!

Horomsi:Is Jammeh Planning to Step Down? Ruling Party supporters worried....
Sunday, December 17, 2006 (1397 reads)

Many Gambians including Ruling APRC supporters were surprised when President Yahya Jammeh asked Gambians to forgive him. Jammeh also announces to forgive members of the opposition whom he perceived as arch enemies. To some here in the country, the President is planning to step down from power in the near future. Others disagreed, citing Jammeh's love for power. Many viewed his recent change of heart as a sign of uncertainty about the longevity of his administration. Renowned Marabouts within and outside the country have time and time predicted about a change of political leadership in this country. Jammeh himself received the "Lesstiharr" or spiritual forecasting about his regime's downfall. To some extent, Jammeh is worried about such revelations. He wants Gambians to accord him the same respect deposed Jawara is provided with today. Jammeh wants to walk as a free man in our streets, without tasting the life of being an asylee or any form of prosecution.

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Who Murdered Deyda Hydara-An Ex-Soldier Take Issues With Gov't
Sunday, December 17, 2006 (850 reads)

By BINNEH S MINTEH RTD ARMY LIEUTENANT

The constant thug of war between President Yaya Jammeh and The Gambia’s independent press ushered in the paradigm of banditry produced inflicted two casualties. Destructive powers of the regime has left behind it untold loss of human life and material. Not only that journalists continue to risk of persecution and censorship, fear for the inalienable rights of life itself is the greatest plight Gambian journalists face day by day. That fear has since intensified with murder of Deyda Hydara by unknown assailants two years ago on 16 December 2004.

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A response to Dida Halake.....Muhammed A Jawara-Associate Editor!
Sunday, December 17, 2006 (564 reads)

Do not start a debate if you cannot stand the heat....

Part of the beauty of democracy is for people to agree and disagree with each other. That is what makes democracy unique to all forms of political ideolodies. There maybe people out there who are blaming Yahya Jammeh for everything that has gone wrong in the Gambia for the past 12 years without providing reasons for doing so. That is not the case with me, and is not enough to categorise everyone under the same banner as blindly anti-Jammeh. Clearly, i have legitimate questions for you that many Gambians are asking. It is up to you to continue the debate by answering the questions or stop low and continue with your generalization of the anti-jammeh Gambians.

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Jammeh Promises to Make The Gambia Economic Super Power- As he ask Gambians to forgive him!
Friday, December 15, 2006 (1166 reads)

President Yahya Jammeh has promised to make the Gambia a world economic power in years to come. He was speaking at his term term swearing in ceremony administered by the Chief Justice AK Savage. The President who was addressing a well parked crowd, reaffirmed his government's commitment to uplift the lives of Gambians.Mr.Jammeh who sworn to defend the constitution is tasked by Gambian electorates to lead the country for another five years. Jammeh for the first time has used the occasion to ask Gambians to forgive him whatever crime he might have committed against our people. In the same vein, Mr.Jammeh also announces that he had forgiven Gambians including members of the opposition. The Gambian leader called on Gambians to put their hands on deck irrespective of political affiliation to develop the country.

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Dida Halake Takes Issue With Freedom Again!
Friday, December 15, 2006 (492 reads)

By Dida Halake.

Pa Mbai,

I have seen Jawara's questions, but they are really old anti-Jammeh RANTINGS ("spewings"!). It is as if you guys are out there to blame Jammeh for every FART in The Gambia during the last 12 years. President Bush is responsible for over 650,000 fellow muslims deaths in Iraq and what did you write recently Pa? You wrote "God Bless America". Come on, Pa ... Freedom exists purely as an anti-Jammeh organ, so don't pretend to be a newspaper capable of reporting objective truth!

Looked at from a real-politik point of view, your kind of reporting IS NOT bad for Jammeh - afterall your kind of reporting derailled NADD before the recent elections and you also SHOW the whole world what so-called "journalism" can DEGENERATE into.

So no hard feelings mate! You just do your thing. Jammeh will continue to give SUPERB leadership for The Gambia, Africa and the Third World FOR YEARS TO COME.

Jammeh Sworn in today:Is This The End Of Jammeh?
Thursday, December 14, 2006 (1087 reads)

Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh is being sworn in today for another term in office. The country's Chief Justice his lordship Justice AK Savage is going to administer the oath office on Jammeh Jilangka. President Jammeh is today poising as the happiest man on this universe, but at the same time concerned about the country's ailing peace. The country is far from being stable. Since the advent of his government, coups and counter coups continued to be the order of the day. Many soldiers have died in the process, while a good number of them are today serving their jailing terms at the Mile Two prisons. Despite past arrests, killings and torture of their colleagues, some ruminants of the army are unhappy with the current state of affairs. In March of this year, the government claimed to have uncovered a coup plot against the administration of President Yahya Jammeh. Five of its alleged ring leaders including Gambia's former intelligence chief Daba Marena were murdered in cold blood by the state. Soldiers who refused to take part in Jammeh's secret killings are usually classified as sympathizers of the opposition.

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Holocaust conference in Iran-Ted Lipien Writes....
Thursday, December 14, 2006 (344 reads)

Holocaust conference in Iran: Al Jazeera offers more balance than National Public Radio (NPR) reporter, objective coverage from most other international media

By Ted Lipien

FreeMediaOnline.org Free Media Online, Dublin, CA, December 11, 2006 -- Many international journalists and broadcasters who could have had a difficult time providing their audiences with comprehensive and balanced coverage of the conference on the Holocaust being hosted in Tehran by the Iranian Foreign Ministry managed to overcome most of the problems. There were, however, a few exceptions.

27 questions for Dida Halake-Editor Jawara Takes Issue With Halake
Thursday, December 14, 2006 (904 reads)

Lies, damn lies and revolutionaries- 27 questions for Dida Halake
I read with keen interest an article written by Dida Halake. In it Mr. Halake made a naration of how he met a former Gambian minister, who he described as a stupid, greedy, ignorant tribalist. In the preamble, Mr. Halake wrote,"There are lies, damn lies, being spewed about The Man, a great leader for The Gambia, Africa and the Third World. But let me explain first how the lies began and how I met one of those original liars at a time when The Man was just an unknown soldier." A cursory look at this thesis, so to speak, suggest that, after reading this article, one would be told about lies that are being spread around by Gambians as well as get a clear picture of what they mean in the context of contemporary Gambian socio political discourses.

Breaking News:President Jammeh, Others Charged With Deyda's Murder! Concerned Gambians speak..
Wednesday, December 13, 2006 (1078 reads)

Gambia's leading journalist Deyda Hydara was killed by President Yahya Jammeh's hit men at the State House in Banjul. As the nation is about to observe the journalist's demise on December 16TH, we as concerned Gambians thought it imperative to formally charge President Jammeh with first degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder. The particulars of offence therefore reads"On or about December 16TH, 2004, at the Sankung Sillah junction just opposite the Police Intervention Unit (PIU), Head Quarters in the Kombo Saint Mary Division, President Yahya Jammeh together with some State House junglers such as Tumbul Tamba, SGT.Kawsu Camara AKA Bombardeh now (Lieutenant) the late Daba Marena, and EX-IGP Sonko to shoot and kill Deyda Hydara at a close range leaving two staffers of the Point Newspaper, Nyan Jobe and Ida Sallah critically injured." Count two of the indictment reads"On or about December 16Th 2004, along the Jimpex junction, just opposite the Police Intervention Unit Head Quarters, President Yahya Jammeh conspired with state House junglers such as Tumbul Tamba, SGT.Kawsu Camara AKA Bombardeh (now Lieutenant) to take the life of Journalist Deyda Hydara with the sole aim of crippling the country's censored private press and possibly forcing local journalists to leave the country. Mr.Jammeh is one of prime suspects in this well organized state crime against an independent minded journalist who spent all his life to promote ideals of good governance and free press in that impoverished West African country.

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