ugnet_: Fw: [camnetwork] UK's airline blacklist published ... Cameroon on the list
The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie" - Original Message - From: Kloema To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 1:14 AM Subject: [camnetwork] UK's airline blacklist published ... Cameroon on the list UK's airline blacklist publishedThe downed Egyptian plane was banned from Switzerland A list of airlines from eight countries which are banned from flying in UK air space has been published. All aircraft operated by airlines from Equatorial Guinea, Gambia, Liberia and Tajikistan have been banned. The others on the blacklist are Sierra Leone's Star Air and Air Universal, Cameroon Airlines, Albanian Airlines and Central Air Express, from DR Congo. The naming follows the Flash Airline crash in Egypt last week, and the revelation the Swiss had banned Flash. Banned airlines Star Air (Sierra Leone) Air Universal (Sierra Leone) Cameroon Airlines Albanian Airlines Central Air Express (DR Congo) Responding to a question from Tory MP David Wilshire, Transport Minister Tony McNulty said that the UK had a "rigorous safety regime" when it came to air travel. "If we have evidence that international standards are not being met a permit may be refused or revoked. Permits may also be refused for other reasons, such as non-payment of fines for offences under immigration legislation," he said in a written answer. "In addition, we require permit applicants, where appropriate, to confirm that aircraft are equipped with certain equipment such as ground proximity warning systems and the airborne collision avoidance systems. Right to know? "Permit applications have been turned down in the absence of such confirmation." It is understood that two airlines banned or restricted in at least one European country in 2002 were still flying from the UK in 2003. But their names are being kept secret, amid international confusion on confidentiality rules, BBC News Online has learned. Mr Wilshire told BBC News: "If a government bans an airline from its airspace it has to have a good reason. "And we have a right to know whether it is sensible to get on an aircraft." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3379773.stm Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/camnetwork/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
ugnet_: [abujaNig] Big fall in sperm counts revealed in UK
Big fall in sperm counts revealed in UK 13:42 05 January 04 NewScientist.com news service The average sperm count of men may have fallen by as much as 29 per cent over the past 12 years, according to a large new UK study. Sperm concentration among men attending the Aberdeen Fertility Centre in Scotland fell from 87 million per millilitre to 62 million per millilitre between 1989 and 2002. Nearly 16,000 samples were taken from 7500 men. The dramatic decrease surprised doctors at the clinic, although concentrations above 20 million per millilitre are considered to be healthy. Aberdeen University's Siladitya Bhattacharya, who led the study, acknowledges that the results might be skewed by the fact that the subjects were attending a fertility clinic. That is an inescapable fact. We weren't able to get a truly random sample, he says. Nevertheless, the drop in sperm counts must cause some concern, and needs to be explained The results, presented on Monday at the Joint Meeting of the Association of Clinical Embryologists and British Fertility Society, may also not be typical of the whole of the UK. Tight trousers But there is growing evidence that environmental factors can cause sperm counts to fall. Drug use, smoking, excessive drinking, obesity, and even tight fitting trousers have all been blamed. Environmental toxins such as pesticides has also been proposed as causes of declining sperm counts, while a study published in July 2003 showed that chemicals mimicking the action of estrogen and found in some foods can impair the normal functioning of sperm. However, despite the large number of studies in many parts of the developed world, no consensus has been reached on why men sperm counts are dropping. Alan Pacey, of the British Fertility Society, told the BBC that the study would help researchers piece together the jigsaw of evidence. British men actually fare quite badly on the European stakes and the region of Europe which is known to have the highest sperm count is Finland, he said. The Aberdeen researchers plan to compare other aspects of the sperm samples, such as motility, to see if their overall quality has declined in the same way as their concentration. Will Knight [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] **Keep Hope Alive!!!* Win upto =N=150,000.00 ... Essay Competition 'HOPE PROJECT ...see the === http://www.iseehope.org Nigeria arise to rebuild Hope ++ Nigerians for Nigeria, rebuilding a Country where No man is oppressed. - --- Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] **Keep Hope Alive!!!* Internet Solution A one stop solution for your web site. It is fully Nigerian, with Hausa, Yorub and Ibo Alphabets and so many resources easy to use and a 24/7 support access. Why go further when a Nigerian, try this one you wont go elsewhere. I ve my signsture to it... PJ Adamz Abuja Nigeria. Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/abujaNig/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
ugnet_: Re: [Ugandacom] (no subject)
Watch out for tomorrow's sixty minutes there might be a very intresting report about Bush's economical plans. Em The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie" - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 9:16 PM Subject: [Ugandacom] (no subject) The Damage, so to say, has already been done to US Intelligence community. To the Outside world the CREDIBILITY of the US intelligence has been greatly damage so much so that It will take years to rebuild this credibilityMatek =Iraq war a big mistake, says reportPhillip CooreyNew York10jan04US Secretary of State Colin Powell said yesterday there was never any concrete evidence Saddam Hussein had ties to al-Qaida.The admission followed a damning new report that found Iraq had ended its weapons of weapons of mass destruction program years ago and posed no imminent threat.The report, by the Washington-based think-tank Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, says the US intelligence community was "unduly influenced" by the Bush Administration to make findings consistent with the Administration's wish to wage war.Its release coincided with growing speculation that David Kay, the CIA man who has led the 1400-strong Iraqi Survey Group in its search for WMDs in Iraq, is on the verge of quitting.Washington is also withdrawing 400 members of the team. The Carnegie think-tank compiled its report after poring over a pile of declassified US intelligence documents, UN weapons inspections reports and Bush Administration statements.Its findings included:NO solid evidence of a co-operative relationship between Saddam Hussein's government and al-Qaida, and no evidence Iraq would have transferred WMDs to terrorists.THE US intelligence community overestimated the chemical and biological weapons in Iraq and was "unduly influenced by policymakers' views".IRAQ'S chemical weapons production capabilities were effectively destroyed by the 1991 Gulf War, the 1998 Operation Desert Fox and UN inspections and sanctions.THE Bush Administration misrepresented the threat from Iraq's supposed weapons and ballistic missile findings.Report co-author Joseph Cirincone said a worst-case scenario had been represented as the most likely case."There are no stockpiles of weapons; there hasn't actually been a find of a single weapon."Mr Powell went on the defensive yesterday."I have not seen smoking-gun, concrete evidence about the connection (to terrorist organisations), but I do believe the connections existed," he said.Mr Powell said Saddam had possessed and used weapons of mass destruction as far back as 1988."In terms of intention, he always had it," he said."I am confident of what I presented (to the UN) last year. The intelligence community is confident of the material they gave me."This game is still unfolding."The report was released as another nine American soldiers were killed when a Blackhawk medivac helicopter marked with a red cross was shot down near Fallujah, taking the US death toll in Iraq to 495.Everyone aboard the US Army helicopter was killed in the crash landing.And 63 personnel had a narrow escape when their US Air Force C-5 cargo plane was hit by a missile after takeoff from Baghdad but landed safely.In the face of sophisticated attacks on US forces, the Pentagon is sending flocks of unmanned spyplanes and a new unit formed to deal with deadly explosive devices to Iraq in the biggest rotation of its forces since World War II.The US force of more than 120,000 in Iraq and another 11,000 in Afghanistan will be replaced by fresh soldiers by the end of May. Emphasis in the new Iraq force will be put on troop mobility, aerial reconnaissance and more effectively dealing with remote-controlled bombs. Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ugandacom/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: ugnet_: Re: [Ugandacom] (no subject)
Apparently I was reading the numbers and this administration created 1000 jobs last month. Now 1000 jobs n the entire American economy is bazre but that is what makes Bush popular. Em The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie" - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 5:04 AM Subject: Re: ugnet_: Re: [Ugandacom] (no subject) In a message dated 1/10/2004 2:51:40 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Watch out for tomorrow's sixty minutes there might be a very intresting report about Bush's economical plans. EmEM:Are you kidding The Bush adm, never had any " Economic Plan", so to say, to write home about let alone one which could lift the country from the economic pit hole were are currently experiencing. Bush's " Economic plan" is pretty much limited to giving out "welfare quid", if you like, to supper rich Americans most of whom run the US Mlitary industrial complex, the Oil industry, Tobacco Industry, Booze Industry, telecom industry and so on...and now get this, the dude is talking about ... rather promising Americans the MOON!!! Don't laugh No kidding. Yup we are like , once more, thinking about establishing some sort of a Summer Vacation home over there on THE MOON were some rich americans who can afford an air ticket to the moon can go take a vacation!!!Uncle Bush thinks about this weird move, while Millions of Americans are unemployed or underemployed , Millions more are homeless, Millions are without health Insurance, Millions cannot afford prescription drugs, Millions have pretty much exhausted their so called NEST EGG ( as in Retirement Income)!Matek Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ugandacom/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
ugnet_: FOR THE CHILDREN OF GOD
From: mrsmaryjonesiklateharry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 1:19 PM Subject: FOR THE CHILDREN OF GOD From: Mrs Mary Jones RE: PLEASE ENDEAVOUR TO USED IT FOR THE CHILDREN OF GOD. I am the above named person from Kuwait. I am married to Dr.Harry Jones who worked with Kuwait embassy in Ivory Coast for nine years before he died in the year 2000.We were married for eleven years without a child. He died after a brief illness that lasted for only four days. Before his death we were both born again Christians.Since his death I decided not to re-marry or get a child outside my matrimonial home which the Bible is against. When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of $8.6Million (Eight Million six hundred thousand U.S.Dollars) with one finance/security company in Amsterderm Holland. Presently, this money is still with the Security Company. Recently, my Doctor told me that I would not last for the next three months due to cancer problem. Though what disturbs me most is my stroke sickness. Having known my condition I decided to donate this fund to church or better still a christian individual that will utilize this money the way I am going to instruct here in. I want a church or Godly person that is God fearing utilise this fund to fund churches, orphanages and widows propagating the word of God and to ensure that the house of God is maintained. The Bible made us to understand that Blessed is the hand that giveth. I took this decision because I don't have any child that will inherit this money and my husband relatives are not Christians and I don't want my husband's hard earned money to be misused by unbelievers. I don't want a situation where this money will be used in an ungodly manner. Hence the reason for taking this bold decision. I am not afraid of death hence I know where I am going. I know that I am going to be in the bosom of the Lord. Exodus 14 VS 14 says that the lord will fight my case and I shall hold my peace. I don't need any telephone ommunication in this regard because of my health because of the presence of my husband's relatives around me always. I don't want them to know about this development. With God all things are possible. As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact of the Finance/ Security Company in Amsterderm Holland. I will also issue you a letter of authority that will prove you as the original- beneficiary of this fund. I want you and the church to always pray for me because the lord is my shephard. My happiness is that I lived a life of a worthy Christian. Whoever that wants to serve the Lord must serve him in spirit and truth. Please always be prayerful all through your life. Any delay in your reply will give me room in sourcing for a chuch or christian individual for this same purpose. Please assure me that you will act accordingly as I stated herein. Hoping to hearing from you. N.B-PLEASE I WILL ADVICE YOU TO GIVE THE LAWYER IN CHARGE A CALL IN AMSTERDAM IMMEDIATELY, HE DOES EVERYTHING ON MY BEHALF AND HE'S VERY UNDERSTANDING AND I BELIEVE HE WILL LEAD YOU TO YOUR SUCCESS IN JESUS NAME, AMEN. NAME: Steven Paulson Clifford. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0031-630-950-986 Remain blessed in the name of the Lord. Yours in Christ, Mrs Mary Jones Reply to email to: ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) to proceed with further details Powered by telstra.com This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
ugnet_: THE ZIMBABWE MDC IS WORKING FOR
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 2:41 PM Subject: Farmworkers allegedly assaulted and locked in safe this is the sought of feudalism the commonwealth sees as the natural of order of things in africa.thank god cde Mugabe as got rid of this sort of nonsense from Zimbabwe.=A distraught farm worker shows some of the injuries they sustainedFarmworkers allegedly assaulted and locked in safeJanuary 10, 2004, 05:42 PMPolice in the Western Cape are investigating a case against a Porterville farmer after he allegedly assaulted three farmworkers, shocked them on their private parts with a cattle prod and locked them in a safe for about five hours. The farmer was assisted by a police officer and reservist. The incident occurred after the three were accused of stealing goods and jewelry."The farmer beat me and shocked me all over my body with a cattle prod and the police officer was assisting. They shocked me even in my private parts," says Lesley Moses, one of the victims.Philander Cylon, another victim, says: "They shocked me in the body and put me in a safe. It was dark with no light and no windows and no oxygen. I had to breathe through a space under the door."The Retail Agriculture and Processing Workers Union (Rapwu) has assisted the workers to lay a charge with the police. Boet Immelman, the farmer, has confirmed that charges have been laid against him and claims they were later withdrawn. The union has accused police at Porterville of complicity in handling the case. Sebastian Julian, a Rapwu spokesperson, says: "We opened a case but while the other victim was locked up they had already made him sign a withdrawal form unknowingly before the assault case was even opened. The union says the case was later opened.Rapwu plans to take the matter up with the area commissioner and will also call for the provincial police minister's intervention. Mzwandile Petros, the Western Cape Police Commissioner, says they are investigating a case of assault to do grievous bodily harm. They will also look into allegations of police complicity and if necessary take action agaisnt any parties involved The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
ugnet_: Two Rwandans Smuggled Children in USA and Canada.
Two face charges that they smuggled childrenBy Christopher Symington and Jason J. Barry, Record-Journal staff MERIDEN A federal grand jury indicted a Meriden man Tuesday in connection with a child smuggling ring that brought children from Africa to Meriden and on to Canada. The indictment charges Hussein Mutungirehe, 38, a citizen of Rwanda believed to have lived at 8 Hobart St. until last month, with several counts of conspiracy to bring alien children into the United States, bringing a minor into the country for private financial gain and harboring and concealing minors in his Meriden apartment. Also indicted was Abiba Kanzayire, 35, also a citizen of Rwanda, who authorities believe falsely used visas issued for her own children to bring minors into the country and to Mutungirehe's Hobart Street apartment, where the children stayed while waiting to be moved. Authorities could not specify the ages of the children, but said they are roughly between 6 and 10 years old. None of the children were allowed to go to school, and at least one of them was forced to do inside chores. Both Mutungirehe or Kanzayire have been arraigned and are in custody. It is unclear when they may face the charges in court. The indictment details the smuggling of at least three children, who authorities believe entered the country with Kanzayire between October 2002 and September 2003. Officials could not say who sent the children, nor did the indictment indicate the children were kidnapped. "We don't know who is asking the smugglers to bring the children into the country, or why," Kevin J. O'Connor, U.S. Attorney for Connecticut, said. "Our concern is that people are circumventing the law and we're talking about the safety and well-being of the children ... We can't take the chance, frankly." Officials believe the conspiracy involved other people, who planned to bring the children from Africa into the U.S. and then to Canada. According to the indictment, at least two of the children were brought into the country through Kennedy International Airport in New York, and brought to Mutungirehe's home by both him and Kanzayire. O'Connor said that while the charges do not include kidnapping or stealing of children, the investigation is continuing and more charges are expected. "We don't always know what the real motive is but we do not allege this was kidnapping," O'Connor said. The pair is being paid "for their role in the transporting and smuggling, not the selling of the child." A woman speaking Swahili answered the door at 8 Hobart St. Tuesday night. The woman, Denise Kabatesi, said Mutungirehe is her husband and he has nothing to do with child smuggling. A friend, Ndayisenga Harerimana, translated for her. Through Harerimana, Kabatesi said she and her husband are originally from Rwanda and have lived in Meriden for two years and four months. Kabatesi said her husband is wrongly accused. "He doesn't know anything about it," she said. Slowly, three young boys emerged from different rooms in the apartment. One boy held an infant. Kabatesi said she had five children of her own, all by Mutungirehe. Kabatesi claimed that Kanzayire was responsible for the child smuggling and that she had been to the apartment only once. "It was her, not him. He doesn't know what is going on," she said. Mutungirehe is believed to have come to the United States in early 1998 and was granted refugee status about eight months later. Kanzayire last attempted entry into the country in September, and after being questioned by officials at Newark International Airport, was paroled into the country and directed to appear in Hartford for further inspection. She failed to make that appearance and was subsequently caught trying to transport one of the children across the border to Canada. O'Connor could not say whether or not Kanzayire was still in the U.S. Tuesday. "It's essentially an illegal immigration ring ... but it's exclusively to children," O'Connor said. "We believe this is part of a much broader problem across the country." The two are reportedly in custody, though authorities could not say where. The case was investigated by agents of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the FBI. State police and U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers also assisted. If convicted on all charges, Mutungirehe and Kanzayire could face up to 45 years in prison and a maximum fine of $250,000 per count. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (203) 317-2227 [EMAIL
ugnet_: REQUEST FOR BUSINESS CONSIDERATION
From: james tama To: Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 7:43 PM Subject: REQUEST FOR BUSINESS CONSIDERATION From Mr. James Tama.Attention:I manage to get your contact from the internet myself.I am Mr. James Tama and my sister is Miss Rose Tama, we are the children of Late Chief Paul Tama fromSierra Leone. I am writing you in absolute confidence primarily to seek your assistance to transfer our cash of TenMillion Dollars ($10,000.000.00) now in the custody of a private Security trust firm In Europe the money isin trunk boxes.Source of the money: My late father Chief Paul Tama, a native of Mende District in the Northern province of Sierra Leone, wasthe General Manager of Sierra Leone mining co-operation (S.L.M.C.) Freetown. According to myfather, this money was the income accrued from Mining Co-operation's over draft and minor sales. Before the peak of the civil war between the rebels forces of Major Paul Koroma and the combined forces ofECOMOG peace keeping operation that almost destroyed my country, following the forceful removal from powerof the civilian elected President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah by the rebels. My father had already made arrangementfor his family that talking about my mother, my little sister and myself to be evacuated to Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire with the CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSIT he made with a security firm in Europe through the aid of U.Nevacuation team. During the war in my country, and following the indiscriminate Looting of Public and Governmentproperties by the rebel forces, the Sierra Leone mining coop was one of the targets looted and it wasdestroyed. My father including other top Government functionaries were attacked and killed by the rebelsin November 2000 because of his relationship with the civilian Government of Ahmed Tejan Kabbah. As a result of my father's death and with the news of my uncle's Involvement in the air crash in January, itdashed our hope of survival. The untimely deaths caused my mother's heart failure and other relatedcomplications of which she later died in the hospital after we must have spent a lot of money on her earlythis year. Now my 18 years old sister and myself are alone in this strange country suffering without anycare or help. Without any relation, we are now like refugees and orphans. Our only hope now is in you and the boxes deposited in the Security Firm, to this effect, I humbly solicityour assistance in the Following ways. 1. To assist me claim this boxes from the security Firm as our beneficiary. 2. To transfer this money (USD$10M) in your name to your country.3. To make a good arrangement for a joint business investment on our Behalf in your country and you, For assisting us with this project, I have agreed with my younger sister that 30% of the total amount will befor your effort. Lastly, I urge you to keep this transaction strictly confidential until the money isunder your care as nobody knows about this money for now. Please as you show your willingness: Forward to us the followings:1. complete names and address.2. telephone and fax number.3. company name and address (if any).My private email address as indicated below, this is for security reasons as I will only be accessing myprivate email. Earnestly awaiting your response. Thanks. May God bless you as you assist us? Mr. James Tama. NB: IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN ASSISTING MY FAMILY WITH THIS PROJECT, I WILL ADVICE THAT YOU REPLY TO ME USING THIS ADDRESS: [EMAIL PROTECTED]or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ugnet_: Kabaka to Meet Sudan Elders Over LRA Rebels
Is the Kabaka political now? Em The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie" - Original Message - From: J Ssemakula To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 8:57 PM Subject: Re: ugnet_: Kabaka to Meet Sudan Elders Over LRA Rebels Likewise, I salute the Kabaka for trying to search for peace to end the misery of our suffering brethren. Ssemakula Original Message Follows From: Rehema Mukooza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ugnet_: Kabaka to Meet Sudan Elders Over LRA Rebels Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 09:41:40 -0800 (PST) I am pleased to see our King Ronald Mutebi extending his hand to try with other traditional leaders to get some ways of resolving this issue in the North.The war will not stop itself as the government is wishing for.I believe that all traditional leaders have always wanted to work together towards a stable Uganda but our own gov't is working tirelessly to break this corrabollation and understanding among our traditional leaders.Why? It's the work of evilness our gov't has always as usual worked on. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Kabaka to Meet Sudan Elders Over LRA Rebels New Vision (Kampala)January 17, 2004 Posted to the web January 19, 2004 Josephine Maseruka Kampala Kabaka Ronald Mutebi has accepted to meet traditional leaders from southern Sudan to discuss ways of ending the17-year northern Uganda insurgency by the Joseph Kony rebels. The Kabaka made the commitment on Thursday when he received the in-charge of conflict issues in the confederation of Switzerland, Ambassador Joseph Bucher The meeting was held at Kabaka's Banda palace. Bucher met the Kabaka to discuss the role of traditional leaders in conflict resolution.He said his government would in the next two months organise a conference on ending armed conflicts for traditional leaders in the region. On Tuesday, the head of the European Union delegation in Uganda, Sigurd Illing, asked the Government to involve a third party in the peace talks to end the northern insurgency." The Lord's Resistance Army doesn't seem to have confidence in the Government. Somebody outside the Government should come in to build confidence. If other methods have not succeeded the Government must look for a way out," Illing told The New Vision. "The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the state." - Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels - Hitler's propaganda minister - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes Let the new MSN Premium Internet Software make the most of your high-speed experience. This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
Re: ugnet_: Kabaka to Meet Sudan Elders Over LRA Rebels
Zakoomu I do not know what hole you have popped from, the fact of the matter is that if you were sober enough to follow the discussion which has been very long. Many of us have been complaining of the refusal of Buganda king to make a war from Northern Uganda a part of their concern. We have been wondering why Ssabasajja has decided to keep quite when Ugandans in the North are dying, and when his men are being sent to die from both DRC and Northern Uganda. The infidels in this forum have continuously responded that the Sabasajja can not be involved in these matters for he is a cultural leader not a political leader. Today Sabasajja for the first time has come out and become involved. And I am asking those same infidels as to whether not this Sabasajja is getting involved for he is a political leader? But before they answered me then a an informed and an individual who know no where this discussion came from, decided to rant. That is why I some times log off and just watch. Em The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie" - Original Message - From: Rehema Mukooza To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 12:05 AM Subject: Re: ugnet_: Kabaka to Meet Sudan Elders Over LRA Rebels Mulindwa: The Kabaka is informally political if you didn't know, in the same way Mengo gov't is an informal gov't. Where have you been, Mulindwa?? He is a traditional leader, and I'll tell that all traditional leaders are informal political leaders of the peoples they lead. Mulindwa, you once criticized the King of Ugandan Kingsand Mengo for being reluctant towards peace in the North. Now, are you turning on your words?? You criticized Buganda and Baganda for "sleeping/kasita twebaka otulo"while fellow Ugandans are dying and suffering in the North. Are you dillusional or what?? Being informally political especially when the leading King of Ugandan Kings is taking peace is something we should be proud of. All informal political/traditional leaders should help bring peace to our motherland. If the formal political leaders have failed to keep up with their duty, let the informalpolitical/traditional leaderstry it out and see what they can accomplish. Our formal political leaders have failed as over and over again, we need to wake up and shift our support towards our informal leaders. I have no trust and faith in formal political leaders and yet I have an undeniable trust and faith in my informal political/traditional leader (Kabaka). Why? The political events in our Uganda can talk for themselves. Zakoomu R.Mulindwa Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the Kabaka political now? Em The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie" - Original Message - From: J Ssemakula To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 8:57 PM Subject: Re: ugnet_: Kabaka to Meet Sudan Elders Over LRA Rebels Likewise, I salute the Kabaka for trying to search for peace to end the misery of our suffering brethren. Ssemakula Original Message Follows From: Rehema Mukooza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ugnet_: Kabaka to Meet Sudan Elders Over LRA Rebels Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 09:41:40 -0800 (PST) I am pleased to see our King Ronald Mutebi extending his hand to try with other traditional leaders to get some ways of resolving this issue in the North.The war will not stop itself as the government is wishing for.I believe that all traditional leaders have always wanted to work together towards a stable Uganda but our own gov't is working tirelessly to break this corrabollation and understanding among our traditional leaders.Why? It's the work of evilness our gov't has always as usual worked on. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Kabaka to Meet Sudan Elders Over LRA Rebels New Vision (Kampala)January 17, 2004 Posted to the web January 19, 2004 Josephine Maseruka Kampala Kabaka Ronald Mutebi has accepted to meet traditional leaders from southern Sudan to discuss ways of ending the17-year northern Uganda insurgency by the Joseph Kony rebels. The Kabaka made the commitment on Thursday when he received the in-charge of conflict issues in the confederation of Switzerland, Ambassador Joseph Bucher The meeting was held at Kabaka's Banda palace.
ugnet_: [abujaNig] THE SPEECH
President Bush will deliver the annual State of the Union this evening at 9:01pm (Eastern Time). The speech will be webcast live on the White House web site. State of the Union Photos Flash Slide Show The President will discuss the extraordinary challenges our country has faced and the historic achievements we have made. Yet he will also stress that there.s much more for our country to do: America this evening is a Nation called to great responsibilities. And we are rising to meet them. We have not come all this way - through tragedy, and trial, and war - only to falter and leave our work unfinished. Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us. He will also remind the American people that we are a Nation still at war, and our government is meeting its responsibility to protect the American people: Our greatest responsibility is the active defense of the American people. Twenty-eight months have passed since September 11, 2001 - over two years without an attack on American soil - and it is tempting to believe that the danger is behind us. That hope is understandable, comforting - and false. ...America is on the offensive against the terrorists... As part of the offensive against terror, we are also confronting the regimes that harbor and support terrorists, and could supply them with nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons. ...Because of American leadership and resolve, the world is changing for the better. He will discuss the progress we're making in Afghanistan and Iraq, and renew our commitment to ensuring those countries are free and peaceful: The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror. The work of building a new Iraq is hard, and it is right. And America has always been willing to do what it takes for what is right. On priorities here at home, the President will discuss why he's optimistic about our growing economy, and call on Congress to take action that will help turn our economic recovery into a lasting recovery. He will call on them to help train Americans for the jobs of the 21st Century: America's growing economy is also a changing economy. As technology transforms the way almost every job is done, America becomes more productive, and workers need new skills. We must respond by helping more Americans gain the skills to find good jobs in our new economy. President Bush will also discuss the importance of health care and the major cause for why Americans lack health insurance: the rising costs of health care. On the critical issue of health care, our goal is to ensure that Americans can choose and afford private health care coverage that best fits their individual needs. To make insurance more affordable, Congress must act to address rapidly rising health care costs. Finally, the President will argue that in a time of great change in our country and world, the things that make our country strong should never change: We are living in a time of great change. Yet some things endure - courage and compassion, reverence and integrity, respect for differences of faith and race. The values we try to live by never change. And they are instilled in us by fundamental institutions, such as families, and schools, and religious congregations. These institutions - the unseen pillars of civilization - must remain strong in America. All of us - parents, schools, government - must work together to counter the negative influence of the culture, and to send the right messages to our children. The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] **Keep Hope Alive!!!* Win upto =N=150,000.00 ... Essay Competition 'HOPE PROJECT ...see the === http://www.iseehope.org Nigeria arise to rebuild Hope ++ Nigerians for Nigeria, rebuilding a Country where No man is oppressed. - --- Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] **Keep Hope Alive!!!* Internet Solution A one stop solution for your web site. It is fully Nigerian, with Hausa, Yorub and Ibo Alphabets and so many resources easy to use and a 24/7 support access. Why go further when a Nigerian, try this one you wont go elsewhere. I ve my signsture to it... PJ Adamz Abuja Nigeria. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at MyInks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/mOAaAA/3exGAA/qnsNAA/TTwplB/TM -~- Yahoo!
ugnet_: The BBC at the African Cup Of Nations
This year's African Cup of Nations promises to be most exciting yet and the BBC will be there all the way to bring you unrivalled coverage. BBC Three will be showing full games 'as live' with BBC Two providing extensive highlights of the day's action. Meanwhile, BBC Three are devoting two special programmes to football in Africa - African Footballers' Wives and Football Magic . Make sure you also stay tuned to BBC World Service's Fast Track programme (Monday and Friday 16:32 GMT) for news on the latest developments in Tunisia and to also have a chance to air your views by texting ++44 77 86 20 2008 . Saturday 24 January Group A: Tunisia v Rwanda BBC Two, 0010-0050 (highlights) Sunday 25 January Group C: Cameroon v Algeria BBC Three, 1900-2130 GMT BBC Two, 2300- (highlights) Monday 26 January Group B: Senegal v Burkina Faso BBC Three, 1915-2130 GMT BBC Two, 2320- GMT (highlights) Tuesday 27 January Group D: Nigeria v Morocco BBC Three, 1915-2130 GMT BBC Two, 2320- GMT (highlights) Wednesday 28 January Group A: Tunisia v DR Congo BBC Three, 1915-2130 GMT BBC Two, 2320- GMT (highlights) Thursday 29 January Group C: Cameroon v Zimbabwe BBC Three, 1915-2130 GMT BBC Two, 2320- GMT (highlights) Friday 30 January Group B: Senegal v Kenya BBC Three, 1915-2130 GMT BBC Two, 2335-0015 GMT (highlights) Saturday 31 January Group D: Nigeria v South Africa BBC Three, 1900-2130 GMT BBC One Grandstand, 1555-1630 BBC Two, 2350-0030 GMT (highlights) Sunday 1 February Group A: Tunisia v Guinea BBC Three, 1900-2130 GMT BBC Two, -0040 GMT (highlights) Monday 2 February Group B: Senegal v Mali BBC Three, 1915-2130 GMT BBC Two, 0020-0100 GMT (highlights) Tuesday 3 February Group C: Cameroon v Egypt BBC Three, 1915-2130 GMT BBC Two, 0020-0100 GMT (highlights) Wednesday 4 February Group D: Morocco v South Africa BBC Three, 1915-2130 GMT BBC Two, -0040 GMT (highlights) Saturday 7 February QF1: Winner Group A v Runner-up Group B BBC Three, 1900-2130 GMT BBC Two, -0050 GMT (highlights) Sunday 8 February QF4: Winner Group D v Runner-up Group C BBC Three, 1900-2130 GMT BBC Two, -0050 GMT (highlights) Wednesday 11 February Semi-finals: Winner QF1 v Winner QF3 or Winner QF2 v Winner QF4 BBC Three, 1915-2130 GMT BBC Two, 2320-0010 GMT (highlights) Friday 13 February Third place play-off BBC Three, 1915-2130 GMT Saturday 14 February Final BBC One, 1550-1630 GMT (highlights) BBC Three, 1900-2130 GMT BBC Two, TBC (highlights) The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
ugnet_: PRESIDENT MUGAABE NOT WELL
President Mugabe collapsed at his house and air lifted to South African hospital Em The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
ugnet_: MORE INFO ABOUT PRESIDENT MUGAABE
SABC has conffirmed that Mugabe is in SA.Alert as sick Mugabe flies to South AfricaBy Jane Flanagan in JohannesburgRobert Mugabe was airlifted to South Africa for emergency medical treatmentyesterday after collapsing at his state residence in Harare, a member of hissecurity staff said last night.The 79-year-old dictator was flown by military aircraft to Johannesburgafter a violent vomiting fit. He was accompanied on the flight by his wifeGrace, personal doctors and a string of aides.His collapse followed a similar bout of illness three months ago, for whichhe was also treated in South Africa. Last night, road blocks were set uparound Harare, manned by riot police and soldiers to dispel any massprotests. Reinforcements from police, army and militia outside the capitalwere drafted into Harare to shore up the regime."We were ordered not to give any details of the president's illness in caseit brought people out on to the streets," a senior member of the 'GreenBombers', the notorious youth brigade created by Mr Mugabe, told The SundayTelegraph. Mr Mugabe is understood to have vomited repeatedly during Fridaynight then collapsed as he attempted to get out of bed yesterday.On arrival in Johannesburg, he was driven away in an entourage of carsaccompanied by bodyguards, according to a witness who saw him at theairport. He is understood to have been driven to a clinic for treatment. Hewas previously treated at a private hospital near Pretoria.Mr Mugabe is taken outside Zimbabwe for treatment to reduce the threat ofnews of his illness leaking out and prompting popular unrest. Reports of asimilar collapse late in October, when he was said to have suffereduncontrollable vomiting, prompted uproar.At the time, spokesmen for his regime denied that he was ill or had left thecountry, insisting it was "business as usual". However, television picturespurporting to show the president at an international cultural conference aresaid by broadcasters to have been old footage.A member of staff at Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation later revealed thatthey were asked to find recent footage of Mr Mugabe and play it during thenational news bulletin to "calm public opinion".In fact, the pictures used dated from his ruling Zanu-PF's annual partycongress meeting, at Victoria Falls, last August. Supporters of the regimehave sought to play down Mr Mugabe's medical problems, but rumours ofill-health and strokes have dogged him in recent years. Mr Mugabe's latestcollapse and emergency hospitalisation will intensify jockeying withinZanu-PF over his succession.After 23 years in power, the president has appeared increasingly frail inrecent months while at the same time showing remarkable stamina. Last night,a spokesman for the South African government said: "I have no information onwhether President Mugabe is in the country or not." The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
ugnet_: Kabaka to Meet Sudan Elders Over LRA Rebels
You know a good bunch of postings in this forum are not worth the time to respond, but this one surely deserves a second. You see it is such uncritical thinking and reasoning that Museveni feeds on. For example what makes one think that Uganda Districts are at war between each other? is Bunyoro's problem today Busoga? Is West Nile in confrontation with Lango? You can not put districts on a round table unless they are at log-heads. And Uganda districts are not. (Democratic and Cultural) What does that exactly mean? Is Buganda at war with West Nile for West Nile girls do not kneel down when they are greeting people yet Baganda girls do? So you want to put these two districts at a round table to discuss their differences? Red this one " Political parties should contest in regional politics (democratic) and traditional / cultural posts shouldbe left to be set through traditional customs and norms. The separation of democratic politics fromcultural politics should emphasized even if both kinds of politics will at one point or the other getintertwined, They'll have to be separated, written in the law of the land." What exactly does that sentence mean? sounds like "We have allot of unknowns that we know we do not know whether we know them, but when we know what we do not know we will tell you when we know what we do not know" Huh? How can you get an entity in Uganda which runs the political arena and the cultural arena at the same time? Look "Separation of democratic politics from cultural politics should be emphasized even if both kinds of politics will at one point or the other get intertwined" So am I to understand that the intertwining of Buganda cultural and political matters have tought us nothing so far, or it is me on dope? And how do you separate regional and national politics by law, "By law" yet at times it will be intertwined? Are we talking about federalism here or feudalism? It is such nonsense that has become Museveni's daily food bank, for on such suggestions he plans a round table to make Districts make a workable setting. It is these same brains that are today jumping with hoofs for Museveni wants to discuss the opening up of party politics. When will you ever learn Ugandans? For the record districts sit on a table to discuss how to use their resources if Federalism is introduced. Uganda's districts have no resources what so ever, everything has been grandly looted to the extent that even Kilembe mines has been closed. The entire north has been shut down for ages. More than half of Buganda's land has been sold to the Boers. What is it that is going to be put on the table to negotiate with? What we need in uganda is leadership, we need a government, we need to start, we need to put our peopleback in homes. And Zakoomu is a classic example of how muchFederalists hate Northern Uganda and Northerners, for there is no way any body with a brain of a pea size, can decide to make Northern Uganda a federal State today. These are people who have been destroyed by their government, it has been a government policy to destroy the North, these people have not slept in homes for 20 years, and the only way North can get on their feet both financially and psychologically is by being up lifted by the rest of the entire nation. it is sad that the federalists want to abandon Northern Uganda to its own. But hey what do you expect from a bunch of people who have a philosophy based on miss information and disinformation, being fade on a society of the Zakoomu's who are un critical thinkers? It sucks trust me. And we might be quite but we are watching, be ware. Em The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie" - Original Message - From: Rehema Mukooza To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 7:07 PM Subject: Re: ugnet_: Kabaka to Meet Sudan Elders Over LRA Rebels Lupa-Lasaga: You've got a nice point here with your question: What is the best strategy for bringing about federalism in Uganda? Below are my contributions towards an answer. 1st. getting all districts under "regions" together at the round table and discuss their union and how they are going to make things work in their union. 2nd. getting regions (Busoga, Bunyoro, Acholi, Lango, W.Nile, Ankole, Tooro, Kigezi, etc)to form workable settings of their governing administrations (democratic cultural) within and around. 3rd.getting all regions together on the national table to discuss key issues of the federation. I refer you to the www.federo.com website for farther information. 4th. Democratic mult-partism in all regional states should be formed. Political parties should form branches in every region they want political participation in. Thus, DP-Bunyoro branches, CP-Acholi
ugnet_: [abujaNig] Aids virus killing Africa's lions-research
Aids virus killing Africa's lions - research By Nation Correspondent New evidence shows that Aids is not just killing millions of people in Africa but the lions as well, threatening the mere existence of the big cats in the continent. The dramatic reduction of animals in the continent from an estimated 230,000 in 1980 to about 18,000 now, set researchers to question whether the cats were just being decimated by the traditional threat of loss of natural habitat and hunting. Recently the New Scientist reported that the lion population had dropped to 23,000, but some researchers have long argued the figure is closer to 15,000. Some UN experts estimate it is between 12,000 and 18,000. However better research technology in virology and field research has indicated that a large number of the cats could be dying from Aids because their immune system has been destroyed by lion lentivirus, the lion version of HIV also called Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV). In research finding which have been extensively reported in the western media, in December, it is the first time lentvirus - discovered 10 years ago in parts of Africa and Asia - has been blamed for the death of lions. A survey reported in the Journal of Virology as early as 1994 detected an endemic lentivirus in 90 per cent of over 400 free-ranging African and Asian lions (Panthera leo). However although there was no evidence of a clear mode of transmission at the time, seroconversion was found in two Serengeti lions. There was no evidence for maternal transmission as a major route of infections in lions.. The current research has been carried out for about six years in Botswana, a country of just 1.7 million people that has the highest recorded rate of HIV infection in the world - 40 per cent in some towns. British researcher Kate Nicholls and her Dutch partner Pieter Kat working at the Okavango Lion Conservation Project in Botswana saw clear parallels between human and lion Aids. According to a report in the Daily Telegraph and the Chicago Sun the duo successfully tracked a male and female lion to a zebra kill, they watched as the lioness, named Fixin, move a short distance away and started to roar. We know these animals very well, and we know she has three cubs she is calling forward to feed, Kat had been quoted. But to the surprise of the mother and the researchers, said the Telegraph the cubs did not appear. As the shadows of circling vultures flicked across the lioness' back, she stared in the direction her young should have come from, but they did not appear' But later in the day the three cubs were found, thin and listless with scrawny hind - quarters and matted, ropey coats. These were healthy, bouncy cubs just a few weeks ago, and even though there is plenty of food here and plenty of water they are already this sick, Nicholls said in an interview. The duo had established that all the adults in the group had the lentivirus. It is hard not to see the parallels between a human Aids victim wasting away and what we are seeing here, said Nicholls. Study towards lion Aids was first raised when it was discovered there were problems with reproduction and fertility among cats. In the research time, the couple identified 104 cubs born within the prides, but fewer than 10 reached adulthood. Such a high mortality rate coupled with cases of pregnant lionesses losing cubs before birth and others failing to become pregnant raised our suspicions, Nicholls had said. FIV according to the Journal of Virology causes immunosuppression in the cats by destroying the CD4 T-cells subsets in infected hosts. Its isolates have been classified into five distinct subtypes: A, B, C, D, and E with subtypes B and D mainly found in Asia. Although a recent article in the local media downplayed FIV as a major problem insisting that the cats were being decimated by lack of habitat no clinical research has been done to determine the danger posed by the new virus. However, in the more endowed state of South Africa, the Wildlife Biological Resource Centre of the Endangered Wildlife Trust, together with the Lion Park, have embarked on a project of assisted reproductive technology, DNA analysis and disease screening of the lions. The project aims to develop assisted reproduction technology as a conservation tool for the African lion, to counteract in-breeding among lion prides, to analyse the DNA from all the lions in the park, and to screen them for the Feline Immunodeficiency Virus. The feline Aids virus affects only the big cats, and is transmitted through bite wounds during fights. It is one of the deadliest viruses in cats, and can decimate an entire pack. In an effort to highlight the plight of the African lion, South African recently launched the Natura Lion Mintmark gold coin. The one-ounce gold coin, depicting a lion and a lioness, will be displayed at the Lion Park in
ugnet_: [abujaNig] A scandal greater than Watergate
A scandal greater than Watergate By ERIC MARGOLIS -- Contributing Foreign Editor We were all wrong, White House chief weapons hunter and longtime war booster David Kay admitted last week. There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, as the U.S. and Britain had long alleged. Iraq's nuclear weapons, death rays, vans of death, drones of death, mobile germ labs, poison gas factories, hidden weapons depots, long-range missiles, links to al-Qaida - all were bogus. The only thing real is Iraq's oil. If Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction (WMD), as it long insisted, we must draw one of two conclusions. Either President George Bush, and secretaries Colin Powell and Donald Rumsfeld, lied about the global threat they claimed Iraq posed, and deceived Congress and the American people. Or, they were grossly misinformed by their intelligence experts and must be judged fools of the first order. If Bush and his team of chest-thumping, self-proclaimed national security experts were really misinformed about Iraq's weapons and capabilities, then they started a war by mistake - and presided over the two biggest national security fiascos since Pearl Harbor: the 9/11 attacks and the invasion of Iraq. It turns out President Saddam Hussein, whom Bush repeatedly branded a liar, was in fact telling the truth all along when he said all of Iraq's old weapons systems had been destroyed. It was Bush and British PM Tony Blair who weren't telling the truth. Saddam should hire attorney Johnny Cochrane and sue the U.S. and Britain for all they're worth. So, take your pick. The Iraq war either was the Mother of All Lies, or the Mother of All Fiascos. Confronted by these ugly facts, Bush tried to rebrand the unprovoked war against Iraq by claiming it was justified because Saddam was such a horrid man. What arrant hypocrisy. When Saddam committed his worst deeds - in the 1980s - he was a close U.S. ally, secretly supported by Washington and London with arms, intelligence, technicians and cash. Now, the White House is trying to blame the Central Intelligence Agency for the Iraq fiasco. CIA director George Tenet may have wronged his agency and the nation by not going public to debunk White House war propaganda over Iraq. But active and retired CIA officers kept warning the public and media (including this writer) that intelligence on Iraq had been deeply manipulated and politicized by a cabal of pro-war neo-conservative ideologues in the Pentagon and the vice president's office. They were ignored. A shadowy Pentagon intelligence unit was created by the neo-cons to whip up war fever against Iraq. It fed either fake or wildly exaggerated reports about Iraq to the White House and Pentagon, which were then trumpeted by the neo-con media. This column has maintained for the past 10 years that a campaign of lies and disinformation was being waged against Iraq. Though I detested Saddam, whose brutal secret police once threatened to hang me, I was incensed to see western democracies fabricating war propaganda. I watched with disgust as so-called Iraq experts and neo-con propagandists, few of whom had ever been to Iraq, warned night after night on U.S. TV about the deadly threat from Iraq. Genuine Mideast specialists were systematically excluded from U.S. media commentary. By challenging war propaganda, I became the object of attacks by colleagues at this newspaper chain, and by other media pundits in the U.S. and Canada. Each week, I was flooded with hate e-mail. Don't be on the losing side, a close friend warned last year. Why risk your career and reputation by insisting Iraq has no WMD? Why? Because I was absolutely convinced of my position, and I passionately hate propaganda of all kinds - especially when it comes from western democracies. Do you feel vindicated? a radio show host asked me last week. You predicted a year ago that no WMD would be found in Iraq. Not vindicated. Just dismayed. Dismayed by the continuing widespread indifference - or even approval - by many Americans of the aggression against Iraq that violated international law and basic norms of civilized behaviour. Dismayed by the craven attitude of the U.S. Congress and mainstream media. And deeply concerned by growing hatred for the U.S. around the globe. Too few Americans seem troubled their president either lied or blundered into a horrible mess in Iraq, so far costing 520 American dead, nearly 10,000 casualties and $200 billion US for 2003-04. This is an historic malfeasance far exceeding in gravity Nixon's Watergate scandal or Bill Clinton's prevarications about sex. The war fever and xenophobia fostered by the Bush administration continues to grip America. I am not comparing the U.S. to Nazi Germany. But one does begin to understand in all this how the Germans, another educated and highly civilized people, were driven in the 1930s by a campaign of fear and
ugnet_: Fw: [great-lakes] Rwanda asks Uganda to explain arrest of ex-diplomat in Kampala
From: Jean-Claude Ndungutse To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 5:07 AM Subject: [great-lakes] Rwanda asks Uganda to explain arrest of ex-diplomat in Kampala Copyright 2003 British Broadcasting Corporation BBC Monitoring Africa - Political Supplied by BBC Worldwide Monitoring July 27, 2003, SundayLENGTH: 345 wordsHEADLINE: Rwanda asks Uganda to explain arrest of ex-diplomat in KampalaSOURCE: The Monitor web site, Kampala, in English 27 Jul 03BODY: Text of report by Ugandan newspaper The Monitor web site on 27 July Rwanda has asked Uganda to explain the mysterious detention of herdiplomatin Kampala by security personnel. Internal Security Organization ISO operatives allegedly arrested aformerwelfare officer at the Rwandan embassy in Kampala, Mr Vincent Butera, inJunelast year. "We regard this as a very unfortunate thing. We ask the Ugandagovernment toexplain the circumstances surrounding his Butera arrest," Rwandan ForeignAffairs Minister Mr Charles Murigande told Sunday Monitor by telephone fromKigali this week. He said Rwanda's foreign officers has on several occasions raised suchcomplaints with their several Ugandan counterparts. "God knows how many times we have brought these issues to their Ugandaattention, including President Yoweri Museveni," Murigande said. "We know of those arrested. Some have been released, while others died,"headded. The minister of regional cooperation, Mr Augustine Nshimye, told SundayMonitor that he had not received any official communication from Kigaliregarding Butera's case. "I am very sorry to hear that, but I have not been officiallycommunicatedto on that particular issue," Mr Nshimye said. A family member came to The Monitor last week and said Butera wasarrestedby operatives from Internal Security Organization and Chieftaincy ofMilitaryIntelligence CMI . He identified some of them as Lt Ben Baguma, Lt Patrick Lumumba, LtFrancisOdechi and Pte William Ssekitoleko. The Rwanda ambassador, Ms Christine Umutoni, last week confirmedButera'sarrest. She said the embassy did not follow up the matter because Butera wasnolonger an employee of the embassy when he was arrested. The relatives said they feared he could have been killed in detention. Sunday Monitor failed for a whole week to reach ISO Director-General ColElly Kayanja and the head of CMI Col Noble Mayombo for a comment. They were reportedly in meetings whenever Sunday Monitor called theirmobilephones. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT Great-Lakes ForumIf you do wish to belong to great-lakes, you may subscribe by sending an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]= Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
ugnet_: [abujaNig] Idi Amin:LEGACY(DeedsMisdeeds)
East African | Daily Nation | About Us | Feedback | Site Map | License | Monitor Mail Want to chat instantly with your Idi Amin: His legacy, deeds and misdeeds By Timothy Kalyegira July 27 - August 4 , 2003 It remains a mystery to many why, 24 years since being deposed from power on April 11, 1979, the former Ugandan strongman and head of state Idi Amin, should remain such a source of fascination and in the minds of many around the world. Amin signs the proclamation abolishing parliament shortly after his coup in 1971 as his aides look on (File photo). Amin is usually the first name that comes to mind when Uganda is mentioned, in spite the globetrotting and undeniably brainy President Yoweri Museveni (or the bed-trotting Gaetano Kaggwa of Big Brother Africa and the Ugandan-born singer Lou Bega). Amin's place and role in Uganda's history will remain notable for many reasons and a combination of reasons, for many years to come. His nearly eight and a half-year rule was one of the most memorable, infamous, absurd, nightmarish, dramatic and crucial in modern world history. Any number of the dramas surrounding the Amin years could, by and of themselves, be historical events worth remembering and studying for years to come. Coming as they did - all combined in the rule and personality of one man, they made for a sense of melodrama and a chronicle in evil that to this day exercises the minds of world historians and analysis of human behaviour. For the army commander Major-General Idi Amin to seize power in a 'bloodless' military coup on January 25, 1971 at the age of 46, was not in itself a particularly unusual event given the wave of military coups that were at the time starting to become commonplace in Africa. However the first series of events that made serious analysts realise that these were special times, came in August 1971 when Amin embarked on a purge of army officers from the northern Nilo-Hamitic Acholi and Langi tribes. He feared they might retain a lingering loyalty to the deposed president Milton Obote. (Obote is a Langi and much of the rank-and-file and officers corps of the 1960s army was drawn from the Acholi and Langi tribes, related to the Dinka of southern Sudan.) A group of these officers was taken to the Makindye military police barracks in the capital Kampala, locked in a room and then grenades were lobbed into the room, killing all of them. It was the callous and brutal way that this purge was undertaken; this enjoyment of the sight of human helplessness and terror on the part of Amin's henchmen that sent shivers of fear through the minds of Ugandans who got to know what had happened. Then more than a year later, in August 1972, the president, on a visit to the eastern town of Tororo, claimed that in a dream by night, God had ordered him to expel from Uganda the 90,000 Ugandan Asians who held British passports. Shock waves were felt as far off as India, the world's second most populous nation, as well as all across East Africa where Asians dominated merchant trade. Although this proposal to force the Asians to choose between full Ugandan or full British citizenship was first mooted in 1968 by the Obote government, it took an Idi Amin to execute it. He did infuse it with all the drama, heedlessness, and bizarre imagery that made many in the western world wonder - could Africans indeed, be literal savages? How, in this modern world of the nation-state, international accords, scientific method, and world opinion, could the head of state of a country make a decree based on - of all things - a dream? How could the economic stability of one of Africa's hitherto most promising nations be so suddenly disrupted by the whims of one man? But these events were but mere opening performances in a drama that would shock, confuse, enthral, and scandalise the world for the rest of the 1970s. A lot of brutal actions followed as the regime nipped out any perceived opposition, real or imagined. Amin was reported, by his former Principal Private Secretary and Minister of Health, Henry Kyemba in his 1977 book A State of Blood to have eaten the flesh of some of his most prominent victims. Nothing in modern world history had ever approached this carnage in Uganda. Of course it did not help the reputation of the Black people that this particular series of gruesome events was taking place deep in the heart of Black Africa. Stereotypes of many centuries were reinforced the leader in Uganda. In its March 7, 1977 special cover
ugnet_: Carla Del Ponte should stay and finish her agenda.
Well There are those of us who have been consistent that the present Rwandese government has a problem, what they do not know is that they are digging their own pits and they will in the end fall in them. And any body can play with words but Kigali is wrong. Just watch. Em The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie" - Original Message - From: Zephanie Byilingiro To: africadaily3 ; AKagera AKAGE ; great-lakes great-lakes ; Rwandanet rwanda ; Democracy_Human_Rights Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 1:36 AM Subject: [great-lakes] Fw: Carla Del Ponte should stay and finish her agenda. What is happening to Ms. Del Ponte today is exactly what happened to Kofi Annan on may 8, 1998. The Rwandan problem "was with the organization, not the man". Today, the Rwandan problem still with the organization, not the woman. The UN will never please the Rwandan regime unless the Secretary-General does what Kigali wants or becomes aRPF member/associate. Zephanie UN Chief Leaves Rwanda after Unhappy Visit by Nicholas KotchReutersMay 8, 1998 Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Uganda on Friday after a two-day visit to Rwanda that became one of the most humbling of his long diplomatic career. Annan was given a public dressing down by Rwanda's foreign minister, roasted by national assembly politicians, boycotted by the country's rulers and snubbed by survivors of a 1994 genocide he has said he tried in vain to prevent. But the visit ended on a happier note with Annan and Rwandan President Pasteur Bizimungu insisting at a news conference that they were friends. A senior U.N. diplomat later told reporters that a private meeting between Annan and government leaders had cleared the air. ``By the end the mood had brightened and was cordial,'' the diplomat said, adding the Rwandans had explained their problem ``was with the organisation, not the man.'' Annan was due later on Friday to attend a state banquet hosted by President Yoweri Museveni in Kampala. The two were due on Saturday to discuss the refugee situation in East and Central Africa as well as other regional issues. Annan's visit to Rwanda, the fifth country on his eight-nation African tour, started badly on Thursday and continued in similar vein on Friday. The reason for the frosty reception centres around a perception by the Rwandan government, and others, that as head of the U.N. department charged with international peacekeeping in 1994 Annan did little to prevent the massacre of over 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus by Hutu extremists. All but 250 members of a U.N. peacekeeping force were withdrawn after the slaughter began on April 6. The Rwandans were further irked by the apparent reluctance of the U.N. chief to personally apologise for his alleged inaction, saying a speech by Annan to the national assembly on Thursday had been ``arrogant.'' Annan has consistently defended himself and the world body by saying there was not enough international will to prevent or end the genocide and arguing that the U.N. was only as effective as the combined determination of its members. Relations between Rwanda and the U.N. were not improved on Friday with news that Kigali had ordered the expulsion of a U.N. human rights official on the grounds he was a security threat. Jose-Luis Herrero, spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Field Operation in Rwanda, told Reuters his expulsion and lack of protest by the U.N ``somehow reflects the malfunctionings of the U.N. system in Rwanda.'' Last month Herrero angered Kigali by voicing his agency's objections to Rwanda publicly executing 22 genocide culprits. Over 130,000 people -- including 36 U.N. staffers -- are currently languishing in Rwanda's jails awaiting trial on genocide charges. Annan had felt the full force of Rwanda's anger on Thursday when he had to sit through a blistering indictment delivered in parliament by Foreign Minister Anastase Gasana. Then he was stood up by the country's president, vice- president and prime minister at the dinner they were due to host in his honour. Presidency spokesman Joseph Bideri told Reuters the boycott was a protest against the ``arrogance'' of Annan's speech after Gasana's broadside. As Annan sat beside him in parliament, Gasana attacked the U.N. and its predecessor, the League of Nations, for its treatment of Rwanda since 1922 when it became Belgian-run. Annan, whose wife Nane was in the audience of parliamentarians and diplomats, remained calm and prefaced his prepared speech with a dignified response. ``...I did not come here to get into polemics and I am sure you know the old proverb that the guest is always the prisoner of
ugnet_: Re: AFRICADAILY3 UGANDA: Food aid needed for 1.6 million people
Several days ago most of the roads in and around Kampala (Uganda) were impassable due to the non stop rain. Can any body tell me why we must send food to Uganda? You see if it is a natural cause then I understand that we must fight it, but if it is a war which has no end in the near future, why should we be involved? Why don't we get Uganda government to flush out the rebels or if it has failed leave office and some one who can go in power and we solve that problem? I mean as a Canadian tax payer why should I send money to a fertile nation which has no end of a war in sight? Just thinking out loud. Em The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie" - Original Message - From: IRIN To: AFRICADAILY3 Discussion List Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 11:14 AM Subject: AFRICADAILY3 UGANDA: Food aid needed for 1.6 million people UGANDA: Food aid needed for 1.6 million peopleNAIROBI, 29 July (IRIN) - Food aid is urgently needed for over 1.6 million people in northern and eastern Uganda in the worst humanitarian crisis the country has seen for years, the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday. Those most in need were 820,000 displaced people in the north, 655,000 drought victims in Karamoja region, and 147,000 refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo. While food stocks were available for August, there would be a "pipeline crisis" by September, WFP spokeswoman Lara Melo told IRIN.Over one million people are currently displaced by the ongoing conflict with the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in the north, not all of whom were accessible by humanitarian workers, said Melo. Currently WFP was unable to reach about 150,000 displaced people around Katakwi in eastern Uganda, she added.Meanwhile, the major roads outside Gulu, Kitgum and Pader in the north remained so insecure that food aid could not be delivered without a military escort, which in some cases was not available, Melo told IRIN. The fear of abductions by the LRA - 8,400 from June 2002 until June 2003 - killings and looting have also severely hampered people's ability to produce or even buy food. This was the second planting season to be severely disrupted by fighting, WFP said. Since June 2002, the conflict has spread beyond the traditional areas of Gulu, Kitgum and Pader districts further south to Lira, Apac, Soroti, Katakwi, Kumi and Kotido districts. [ENDS][This Item is Delivered to the "Africa-English" Service of the UN's IRINhumanitarian information unit, but may not necessarily reflect the viewsof the United Nations. For further information, free subscriptions, or to change your keywords, contact e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or Web: http://www.irinnews.org . If you re-print, copy, archive or re-postthis item, please retain this credit and disclaimer. Reposting by commercial sites requires written IRIN permission.]Copyright (c) UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs 2003To make changes to or cancel your subscription visit:http://www.irinnews.org/subscriptionsSubscriber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Keyword: All IRIN ReportsU N I T E D N A T I O N SOffice for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN) Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT Visit the website of Rwanda presidential candidate, former Prime Minister Faustin TWAGIRAMUNGU at: http://www.twagiramungu.netWelcome to AFRICADAILY3. Home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/africadaily3 Command for help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Number of AFRICADAILY3 members: 5,746. AFRICADAILY3 ranks first in YAHOO!GROUPS directory: http://dir.groups.yahoo.com/dir/Regional/Countries/Rwanda?show_groups=1 . Visit links to african news and photos, a courtesy of SIBOMANA Jean Bosco (home page: http://home.switchboard.com/sibomana ): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/africadaily3/links Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: ugnet_: Re: AFRICADAILY3 UGANDA: Food aid needed for 1.6 million people
Kironde So why doesn't the rest of Uganda feed that karamoja area? Em The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie" - Original Message - From: Ed Kironde To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 7:10 PM Subject: RE: ugnet_: Re: AFRICADAILY3 UGANDA: Food aid needed for 1.6 million people Could it be possible that Kampala might have floods and no drop in Karamoja/ Are Karimojong nomads which makes it hard for them to settle down and plant food crops? Why should we be involved? That is a very good question leave the involvement to Ugandans who have an answer to your question. Much as the land is fertile due to rainfall, it is equally fertile to conflicts ---Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).Version: 6.0.502 / Virus Database: 300 - Release Date: 7/18/2003
ugnet_: WHO WILL BE ASSASINATED NEXT?
Netters This is a posting many of us did not take time to look at. It is a very terrible stage that developed nations want to pass under your own nose without knowledge. The agenda is to put terrorism in the market, so if you know for a fact that a leader so and so will be assassinated, you can bet on it and if you are wrong you loose the cash on the market. pentagon calls it a way to track terrorism from a wider source. Many people calls it an absolutely stupid idea. This is how low the American administration has been forced into this new world order. The question is what is next? Em Pentagon's Futures Market Plan Condemned Mon Jul 28, 7:46 PM ET By KEN GUGGENHEIM, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - The Pentagon (news - web sites) is setting up a stock-market style system in which investors would bet on terror attacks, assassinations and other events in the Middle East. Defense officials hope to gain intelligence and useful predictions while investors who guessed right would win profits. AP Photo Two Democratic senators demanded Monday the project be stopped before investors begin registering this week. "The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it's grotesque," Sen. Ron Wyden (news, bio, voting record), D-Ore., said. The Pentagon office overseeing the program, called the Policy Analysis Market, said it was part of a research effort "to investigate the broadest possible set of new ways to prevent terrorist attacks." It said there would be a re-evaluation before more money was committed. The market would work this way. Investors would buy and sell futures contracts essentially a series of predictions about what they believe might happen in the Mideast. Holder of a futures contract that came true would collect the proceeds of investors who put money into the market but predicted wrong. A graphic on the market's Web page showed hypothetical futures contracts in which investors could trade on the likelihood that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) would be assassinated or Jordanian King Abdullah II would be overthrown. Although the Web site described the Policy Analysis Market as "a market in the future of the Middle East," the graphic also included the possibility of a North Korea (news - web sites) missile attack. That graphic was apparently removed from the Web site hours after the news conference in which Wyden and fellow Democratic Sen. Byron Dorgan (news, bio, voting record) of North Dakota criticizing the market. Dorgan described it as useless, offensive and "unbelievably stupid." "Can you imagine if another country set up a betting parlor so that people could go in ... and bet on the assassination of an American political figure, or the overthrow of this institution or that institution?" he said. According to its Web site, the Policy Analysis Market would be a joint program of the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, known as DARPA, and two private companies: Net Exchange, a market technologies company, and the Economist Intelligence Unit, the business information arm of the publisher of The Economist magazine. DARPA has received strong criticism from Congress for its Terrorism Information Awareness program, a computerized surveillance program that has raised privacy concerns. Wyden said the Policy Analysis Market is under retired Adm. John Poindexter, the head of the Terrorism Information Awareness program and, in the 1980s, a key figure in the Iran-Contra scandal. In its statement Monday, DARPA said that markets offer efficient, effective and timely methods for collecting "dispersed and even hidden information. Futures markets have proven themselves to be good at predicting such things as elections results; they are often better than expert opinions." The description of the market on its Web site makes it appear similar to a computer-based commodities market. Contracts would be available based on economic health, civil stability, military disposition and U.S. economic and military involvement in Egypt, Iran, Iraq (news - web sites), Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Turkey. Contracts would also be available on "global economic and conflict indicators" and specific events, for example U.S. recognition of a Palestinian state. Traders who believe an event will occur can buy a futures contract. Those who believe the event is unlikely can try to sell a contract. The Web site does not address how much money investors would be likely to put into the market but says analysts would be motivated by the "prospect of profit and at pain of loss" to make accurate predictions. Registration would begin Friday with trading beginning Oct. 1. The market would initially be limited to 1,000 traders,
ugnet_: ONE IN THREE UGANDANS IS BELOW THE POVERTY LINE
UGANDA: One in three below poverty lineNAIROBI, 30 July (IRIN) - One in three people continued to live below the poverty line in Uganda in 2002, despite progress made in recent years which has lifted over four million Ugandans out of impoverishment, says a new report issued on Wednesday by the UN's Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)."Sound macroeconomic management" generated higher growth and enabled Uganda to raise the living standards of much of its population, according to the Economic Report on Africa 2003. However, these improvements were made in central and western Uganda, whereas the north, disadvantaged by remoteness, conflict, unfavourable agro-climatic conditions, the displacement of about a million people, and a lack of investment, remained significantly poorer than the rest of the country.Defence spending had risen to 5.3 percent of GDP in 2001/2002, from 4.2 percent in the previous three years, the study noted. "The growth in the defence budget - especially the spending over and above the budget - is raising concerns for some donors," it added.Despite the vast inequalities in the distribution of wealth and resources along geographical and urban-rural lines, Uganda had made progress in a number of areas on a national level, the ECA reported. Infant mortality had declined from 88 per 1,000 births in 1995 to 81 in 2000, full immunisation coverage of one-year olds had risen from 66 percent in 1995 to over 90 percent in 2002, and access to health care was up to 80 percent in 2001.But most social indicators remained below average compared to countries like Ghana, Kenya and Zimbabwe, despite substantial increases in public spending on basic services, the report added.The average life expectancy in Uganda is only 44, lower than the sub-Saharan average of almost 48.7, while national adult literacy rates are 67 percent. The Economic Report on Africa 2003 examines how Africa can achieve growth rates necessary to attain the Millennium Development Goals, aimed at improving the welfare of the world's poorest people. In addition to a general examination of the performance of African nations, it includes an in-depth study of seven countries, including Uganda. The others are Mauritius, Rwanda, Ghana, Gabon, Egypt and Mozambique.
ugnet_: Re: [great-lakes] Re: [Ugandacom] WHO WILL BE ASSASINATED NEXT?
Charles I do not think that we are scared of who started this program, our main worry is the fact that it can even be thought about by a nation we call developed. That must scare all of us, and if they can scoop this low what else have they done? Em The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie" - Original Message - From: c.eliba To: Elum aniap Godfrey Ayoo ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; Rwanda ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 9:58 AM Subject: [great-lakes] Re: [Ugandacom] WHO WILL BE ASSASINATED NEXT? The program was the idea of theinsane Poindexter and the lots which has been going on for years except that it had not been securitised before. By putting it in the markets, believe me this is the last breathe of its life and unless it reverts to its old way of conducting business. A little bit of Poindexter's background would tellone that such a system can only work covertly but not in game of international financial gamble. Charles Eliba - Original Message - From: Elum aniap Godfrey Ayoo To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; Rwanda ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 9:04 AM Subject: Re: [Ugandacom] WHO WILL BE ASSASINATED NEXT? Edward, On the other hand, in order to cash in on some event, one may go a step further to influence its occurrance or create conditional premsis that would let it happen as predicted. Children of Satan, they are. Godfrey - Original Message - From: Mulindwa Edward To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; Rwanda ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 8:30 AM Subject: [Ugandacom] WHO WILL BE ASSASINATED NEXT? Netters This is a posting many of us did not take time to look at. It is a very terrible stage that developed nations want to pass under your own nose without knowledge. The agenda is to put terrorism in the market, so if you know for a fact that a leader so and so will be assassinated, you can bet on it and if you are wrong you loose the cash on the market. pentagon calls it a way to track terrorism from a wider source. Many people calls it an absolutely stupid idea. This is how low the American administration has been forced into this new world order. The question is what is next? Em Pentagon's Futures Market Plan Condemned Mon Jul 28, 7:46 PM ET By KEN GUGGENHEIM, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - The Pentagon (news - web sites) is setting up a stock-market style system in which investors would bet on terror attacks, assassinations and other events in the Middle East. Defense officials hope to gain intelligence and useful predictions while investors who guessed right would win profits. AP Photo Two Democratic senators demanded Monday the project be stopped before investors begin registering this week. "The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it's grotesque," Sen. Ron Wyden (news, bio, voting record), D-Ore., said. The Pentagon office overseeing the program, called the Policy Analysis Market, said it was part of a research effort "to investigate the broadest possible set of new ways to prevent terrorist attacks." It said there would be a re-evaluation before more money was committed. The market would work this way. Investors would buy and sell futures contracts essentially a series of predictions about what they believe might happen in the Mideast. Holder of a futures contract that came true would collect the proceeds of investors who put money into the market but predicted wrong. A graphic on the market's Web page showed hypothetical fut
ugnet_: ONE MAN, ONE FARM: PRESIDENT
One man, one farm: President By Lovemore Mataire PRESIDENT Mugabe has ordered top Zanu-PF officials with multiple farms to relinquish them within two weeks. The President issued the directive yesterday during a Zanu-PF Politburo meeting at the partys headquarters in Harare. Zanu-PF secretary for information and publicity, Cde Nathan Shamuyarira, said the President made reference to a preliminary report prepared by the Presidential Land Review Committee chaired by Dr Charles Utete, which indicated that a number of people in the partys top hierarchy had multiple farms. "President Mugabe said he would not allow people to have more than one farm. He advised those with multiple farms to choose one and give up the rest to the Government for resettlement," said Cde Shamuyarira. The Presidential Land Review Committee was appointed by President Mugabe in April this year and was supposed to have finished examining the land reform and resettlement programme last month. However, the committee requested another two-weeks to finalise its report. The report is now expected to be ready by mid-August. The committee was expected to assess the progress achieved so far in the implementation of the land reform programme as a whole and establish the extent to which the programmes objectives and principles have been achieved and implemented. It was also expected to outline remaining challenges and constraints in the ongoing implementation of the land reform programme in order to provide a holistic approach to the agrarian reform agenda and recommend concrete and programme enhancing ways of adequately and effectively addressing any administrative and material shortcomings. Its other tasks were to verify the implementation of the A1 and A2 resettlement with the attendant concern of the provision of agricultural inputs and support services for the optimal use of resettled land. The committee was expected to gauge the productive capacity of the resettled farmers and agree on measures necessary to ensure targeted production for each province. President Mugabe has in the past said that no person should own more than one farm and that the Government was committed to the "one man, one farm" policy. Other issues that were discussed at yesterday's Politburo meeting include the current cash and fuel shortages. Cde Shamuyarira said the Politburo expressed satisfaction with a number of measures that were suggested by the Cabinet Taskforce set up on Tuesday to deal with the shortage of cash. He said the taskforce was urged to expeditiously implement the measures in order to lessen the difficulties that people were having in obtaining cash from banks. On the fuel situation, the Ministry of Energy and Power Development gave the current situation regarding the supply of fuel to the country and informed the Politburo of measures that were being taken to rectify the problem. The meeting also discussed the impending mayoral and urban council elections scheduled for August 30 and 31. The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
ugnet_: POINDEXTER TO RESIGN VERY SHORTLY
Netters This is the guy who wanted us to bet on who will be assasinated next. Em = Poindexter to Quit Pentagon Post Amid ControversyBy REUTERS Filed at 2:17 p.m. ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - John Poindexter, the retired Navy admiral who spearheaded two sharply criticized Pentagon projects, intends to resign from his Defense Department post within weeks, a senior U.S. defense official said on Thursday. ``It's my understanding that he ... expects to, within a few weeks, offer his resignation,'' the official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told reporters. Poindexter was involved with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's abandoned futures-trading market for predicting assassinations, terrorism and other events in the Middle East, and earlier with the so-called Total Information Awareness program that drew fire from civil rights groups. The official indicated that Poindexter had become a lightning rod for criticism. Poindexter served as President Ronald Reagan's national security adviser in the 1980s and was convicted for his role in the Iran-contra scandal, a conviction that later was set aside. ``Everybody certainly recognizes Admiral Poindexter's background. And in the context of that background, it became in some ways very difficult for him to receive an objective reading of work that he was doing on behalf of finding terrorists,'' the official said. The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
Re: ugnet_: DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE THEM DO UNTO YOU.(Does It Make Sense?)
Can both of you try to paragraph your postings so that we can read them? Thank you for your very understanding. It is the age thing. Em The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie - Original Message - From: emmanuel musaazi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 4:01 PM Subject: Re: ugnet_: DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE THEM DO UNTO YOU.(Does It Make Sense?) Mr. Kipenji, i stated in my earlier response that the status quo in Uganda is not perfect viz a viz politics, economics and what have you...criticism has to be relative...what i can't stand is people criticizing out of context in order to promote an agendain order for criticism to be fair and even handed one has to look at what was and what is in the context of Uganda...i take it as an insult to my intelligence when someone begins to insinuate for example that amin's regime was better or equivalent to the present and then blowing stories out of proportion and making all sorts of ridiculous conclusions as if i can't read or understand what is going...if you want to have an intellectual debate on Uganda from all perspectives looking at where we have come from and where we were that's fine with meabout opinions of Ugandans if you recall in some eras passed even discussing about politics in bar got you killed Mr. Kipenji you know that, as a matter of fact in Obote II and during amins time that was the casei'm surprised you are complaining about the media being pro Museven when most of the negative articles you post are from Ugandan newspapers in Uganda so i don't see where you are going with that...by the way does Uganda have any political prisonersand if your only strike against Museveni is that he is not allowing you to form a party then it is only fair that the impact of multiparty politics in Uganda be analysed and debated...you see you keep throwing around the term DEMOCRACY but the statements you and some of your friends make do not show that you are democratically inclined.Democracy is supposed to serve the people and not the other way around as a matter of fact whatever political system we adopt has to serve us (THE PEOPLE) of Uganda and not the other way around...we shouldn't be straped to Democracy to sink or float with..that seems to be your view you want to shove Democracy down every Ugandans throat whether they are ready for it or not whether it works or not and that is very selfish...you seem to be using democracy as a banner or vehicle to power after which your true colours will be revealedthis has been politics 101Uganda as a sovereign country should have a right to seek or experiment with alternative political systems if previous ones failed you certainly must agree with that. From: Owor Kipenji [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ugnet_: DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE THEM DO UNTO YOU.(Does It Make Sense?) Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 15:12:16 +0100 (BST) Emmanuel,I really do not what to dwell too much on which side of the divide this said journalist is.You have yourself stated that there is much more that meets the eye for many Ugandans to understand what is at stake between the Government and the Byanyima family.Unfortunately for me,even though I could be a little privy to some of those things,I will not indulge myself in divulging whatever it is because it is against my own ethos.Having said that,you sound like many of the buffet intellectuals that have mushroomed in Uganda especially so during the regime of Mu7 who are very ready to make conclusions about the theatricals they see allowed to happen in Uganda and use that as their holy grail to dismiss what other opinions of and about Mu7 and his governance style without critiquing. In communication,there is usually a reason for one to engage others,be it for information,inspiration motivation,provocation or education among other things.What do you in your of read of things think is making Mu7 allow what you allude to as open criticisms without arrest?.If you got people in their binge states criticising government and they are not arrested,should that really be the yardstick for measure of tolerance by the government?.If these same people on recovering from their inebriated state were to be questioned of their previous day's opinions would they be prepared to own up to it?That explains why such is very common,for whatever they yap about does in no way stop Mu7 from doing what he does!. Many other people have contested to wrest the presidency from Mu7 and with the exception of one,they are living freely in Uganda.Should that really surprise you?.On the contrary I believe you should be
ugnet_: [abujaNig] TANZANIA'S DOGS OF WAR
Tanzania's 'dogs of war' Soldiers from many countries are fighting in central Africa's wars The Tanzanian parliament was told on Tuesday that former army officers are being used as mercenaries in neighbouring countries. The men are being employed by the DR Congo and Ugandan armies, according to John Malacela, chairman of the Parliamentary Defence and Security Committee. Mr Malacela said that this development could endanger Tanzania's own security. But the news could do more than that, according to the BBC's Swahili Service. It believes that Tanzania's reputation as an honest broker and as a strictly neutral party in the conflicts afflicting its neighbours could be damaged by this. Thousands of Burundians have fled the fighting In recent weeks the Burundian foreign minister has accused Tanzania of allowing Burundi rebels to use its territory to launch attacks into Burundi. The government in Bujumbura has often accused Tanzania of arming and training Hutu rebels. The admission that Tanzanians are working as mercenaries in Africa sheds a new light on the profile of the so-called dogs of war. The image of mercenaries in Africa over the last 40 years has been of white soldiers from former colonial powers - particularly Belgium France or Britain - fighting to support African dictators or rebel movements or, more recently, of former South African special forces soldiers being paid to fight in Angola and Sierra Leone. Artillery Reporting to parliament, John Malacela said: It is very dangerous for Tanzania to simply let her retired soldiers to be recruited abroad and used as mercenaries. The defence committee put forward the suggestion that the government should develop a policy for utilising the ex-army officers to Tanzania's benefit, employing the men either inside the country or for roles abroad. It also warned of the dangers to Tanzania of the continuing fighting in Burundi and in areas of DR Congo near to the Tanzanian border. The upsurge in fighting in Burundi in recent weeks has led to strained relations between Burundi and Tanzania. Are they being drilled by Tanzanian officers ? Tanzania denies Burundian accusations of aiding the Hutu rebels. But the BBC's John Ngahyoma in Dar es Salaam says that the accusations have become more serious as the rebels have started using heavier artillery weapons than previously. Critical The parliamentary report has taken people by surprise. Ahmed Rajab of the London-based Africa Analysis told BBC Online that he was surprised by this, although he was aware that Tanzania had been giving assistance with training the DR Congo armed forces. In the past, Tanzania has been very critical of the use of mercenaries in Africa. In June, it sent back to France 12 suspected mercenaries whose plane had landed in Dar es Salaam while on its way to Madagascar. The Tanzanian Defence Minister, Professor Philemon Sarungi, is in Dodoma to attend parliament but has so far made no public comment on the report. The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for Your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at Myinks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/sO0ANB/LIdGAA/ySSFAA/TTwplB/TM -~- **Keep Hope Alive!!!* Site of the Week:- http://www.iseehope.org Nigeria arise to rebuild Hope ++ Nigerians for Nigeria, rebuilding a Country where No man is oppressed. - --- Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] **Keep Hope Alive!!!* Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
ugnet_: Murder: Gulu Plans to Sue Government
On the Luganda I see flying both on Ugandanet and Fednet, to the extent of posting full articles from Bukedde, I would have left this pass, but hey the language was from Northern Uganda, why don't we kill a fly with a sledge harmer? What is the most complicated term to define? Freedom of speech. That is why I never use it. Em The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie - Original Message - From: emmanuel musaazi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 12:16 PM Subject: Re: ugnet_: Murder: Gulu Plans to Sue Government Netters, can we all agree that the use of vernacular should be reduced or prohibitedi don't see the use of putting up postings that are not comprehensible to every Ugandanwe are Ugandans and the official language of Uganda is english.and please this is not meant to reduce or in any way shape or form diminish the seriousness of Mr. Ochan's article. I have been discouraging people from using luganda when responding to me. The use of vernacular is tolerable if it is one or two words but beyond that it becomes discomfiting to some of us who do not understand. From: Ochan Otim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ugnet_: Murder: Gulu Plans to Sue Government Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:54:52 -0700 Translated from Rupiny Wednesday, 30th July, 2003 --- -- Gulu Plans to Sue Government over murder Murder Odwong Wod Ayo Gulu District Council has voted to take the government to court over the destructive murder that the UPDF have committing in Gulu. Gulu Chairman, Lt. Col. Ochora has requested religious leaders in Gulu District to provide the district attorney with the names of everyone murdered and the places where these murders occurred so that legal action can be initiated against the government. Many UPDF soldiers have shot people in their own homes. The population is very upset that these murderers are still roaming the streets, Lalolgi Councillor Ben Acellam told the members. The Gulu DLC resolved to take the 'big' government (meaning GOU) to court on behalf of their kins who have been murdered by UPDF soldiers. One the other hand, Arthur Okot writes that Odoch Athi LC 5 councillor of Pabbo sub county informs that UPDF soldiers reached Akonyi Bedo PS school and caused destruction. Other crimes that Rupiny has unearthed is that there is a man in Bungatira sub-county who was tied up with a rope for three days until his hands began to rot: his hand were amputated later in the hospital. Lalub RDC Semei Okwir said that there other crimes which are have been committed but not on behalf of the government. He added that these soldiers are being delt with under the law. Bal mukene ma Rupiny onongo ni laco mo ma mony Bungatira sub-county otweyo ki tol pi nino adek ci bade otop ka kingolo woko ki i ot yat. Lalub RDC Semei Okwir otito ni tye bal mukene ma mony timo ento nongo pe obedo miti pa gamente. En otito ni mony magi bene gitye ka tero gi ite cik. Gulu mito doto gamente pi nek aranyi Odwong Wod Ayo GULU District Council otyeko moko ni omyero distrik odot gamente pi nek mogo me aranyi ma lumony UPDF guneko kwede dano i Gulu. Wonkom me Gulu, Lt. Col. Ochora otito ni omyero lukancila ducu me Gulu distrik gukel nying dano ma kineko gi ki kabedo ma kineko gi iye ka wek kimi lapilida pa distrik pi doto gamente. Lumony pa UPDF tyen mapol gucelo dano ki muduku wa ito ma man omiyo pol dano cwiny gi pe yom me neno jo ma oneko dano gi woto ata, Ben Acellam me Lalogi otito ki lumemba. Lumemba me Gulu DLC gumoko lumuko me doto gamente madit pi dano gi ma lumony UPDF oneko. Kitungcel bene Arthur Okot coyo ni Odoch Athi LC 5 kancila me Pabbo sub county bene otito ni mony UPDF gutunu gang kwan me Akonyi Bedo PS ka gutimo aranyi iye. Bal mukene ma Rupiny onongo ni laco mo ma mony Bungatira sub-county otweyo ki tol pi nino adek ci bade otop ka kingolo woko ki i ot yat. Lalub RDC Semei Okwir otito ni tye bal mukene ma mony timo ento nongo pe obedo miti pa gamente. En otito ni mony magi bene gitye ka tero gi ite cik. _ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail
Re: ugnet_: Murder: Gulu Plans to Sue Government
Otim Musaazi's problem is not failing to understand what was in the posting, it is why was it ever posted!! Em The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie - Original Message - From: Ochan Otim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 1:59 PM Subject: Re: ugnet_: Murder: Gulu Plans to Sue Government A translation was provided. Is that not enough? Ochan At 11:16 AM 8/1/2003 -0500, you wrote: Netters, can we all agree that the use of vernacular should be reduced or prohibitedi don't see the use of putting up postings that are not comprehensible to every Ugandanwe are Ugandans and the official language of Uganda is english.and please this is not meant to reduce or in any way shape or form diminish the seriousness of Mr. Ochan's article. I have been discouraging people from using luganda when responding to me. The use of vernacular is tolerable if it is one or two words but beyond that it becomes discomfiting to some of us who do not understand. From: Ochan Otim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ugnet_: Murder: Gulu Plans to Sue Government Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:54:52 -0700 Translated from Rupiny Wednesday, 30th July, 2003 -- --- Gulu Plans to Sue Government over murder Murder Odwong Wod Ayo Gulu District Council has voted to take the government to court over the destructive murder that the UPDF have committing in Gulu. Gulu Chairman, Lt. Col. Ochora has requested religious leaders in Gulu District to provide the district attorney with the names of everyone murdered and the places where these murders occurred so that legal action can be initiated against the government. Many UPDF soldiers have shot people in their own homes. The population is very upset that these murderers are still roaming the streets, Lalolgi Councillor Ben Acellam told the members. The Gulu DLC resolved to take the 'big' government (meaning GOU) to court on behalf of their kins who have been murdered by UPDF soldiers. One the other hand, Arthur Okot writes that Odoch Athi LC 5 councillor of Pabbo sub county informs that UPDF soldiers reached Akonyi Bedo PS school and caused destruction. Other crimes that Rupiny has unearthed is that there is a man in Bungatira sub-county who was tied up with a rope for three days until his hands began to rot: his hand were amputated later in the hospital. Lalub RDC Semei Okwir said that there other crimes which are have been committed but not on behalf of the government. He added that these soldiers are being delt with under the law. Bal mukene ma Rupiny onongo ni laco mo ma mony Bungatira sub-county otweyo ki tol pi nino adek ci bade otop ka kingolo woko ki i ot yat. Lalub RDC Semei Okwir otito ni tye bal mukene ma mony timo ento nongo pe obedo miti pa gamente. En otito ni mony magi bene gitye ka tero gi ite cik. Gulu mito doto gamente pi nek aranyi Odwong Wod Ayo GULU District Council otyeko moko ni omyero distrik odot gamente pi nek mogo me aranyi ma lumony UPDF guneko kwede dano i Gulu. Wonkom me Gulu, Lt. Col. Ochora otito ni omyero lukancila ducu me Gulu distrik gukel nying dano ma kineko gi ki kabedo ma kineko gi iye ka wek kimi lapilida pa distrik pi doto gamente. Lumony pa UPDF tyen mapol gucelo dano ki muduku wa ito ma man omiyo pol dano cwiny gi pe yom me neno jo ma oneko dano gi woto ata, Ben Acellam me Lalogi otito ki lumemba. Lumemba me Gulu DLC gumoko lumuko me doto gamente madit pi dano gi ma lumony UPDF oneko. Kitungcel bene Arthur Okot coyo ni Odoch Athi LC 5 kancila me Pabbo sub county bene otito ni mony UPDF gutunu gang kwan me Akonyi Bedo PS ka gutimo aranyi iye. Bal mukene ma Rupiny onongo ni laco mo ma mony Bungatira sub-county otweyo ki tol pi nino adek ci bade otop ka kingolo woko ki i ot yat. Lalub RDC Semei Okwir otito ni tye bal mukene ma mony timo ento nongo pe obedo miti pa gamente. En otito ni mony magi bene gitye ka tero gi ite cik. _ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail
ugnet_: Scholarship outlets - Save this Information
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ugnet_: I LOVE AMIN SAYS NASUR
Mwaami Kironde You see this is the very tragedy we have in Uganda. We base our beliefs not on facts not on statistics, not on proven ideas, but on "Ban'gambye". And I am having a very hot debate about this "Ban'gambye, nawulidde" Crap in another Ugandan forum as we speak. We have failed to base our reasoning on facts. And in the end we have a population which accepts these matters as proven, yet on the other side we have people in leadership who use these Lugambo's for political achievements. And that is a very terrible way of running things even in your own home. This is not about freedom of _expression_, this is not about letting Nassur enjoy it, this is to state what you know for a fact. But we come in forums and in public and we set Lugambo as fire, and let me give you an example, Mwaami Matovu came into this very forum and he stated as he knew for a fact that Mutesa was poisoned by Obote. Was this a new lie? No it started in Katwe and no body ever tried to ask him self can this be true? It became an accepted norm, only that I expected Lutimba to know better, to know that even if you have never been to London surely that statement is a crude lie. Matovu expected all of us to sweep it under the mat, and many of you did. And I am not here to tell Matovu to like Obote, but c'mon. But here we are, Nassur can not add insult to injury. Okay then let me ask Why is Obura and Ssebirumbi dead when Nassur is alive? Why did NRM allow Tito Okello to come back to Uganda yet the same NRM through its leader Yoweri Museveni said that if Obote comes back to Uganda I will kill him? Yet both of them are former presidents? And the only answer I will get from you will be Mulindwa you are a UPC supporter. No I want you to tell me the difference between those two presidents. You are talking about a man who was arrested and taken through the most corrupt system of justice in Africa, Nassur's case became political and he ended up released. Let me tell you for a fact that if Nassur had surely killed that man in Masaka, NRM would have released him and mob justice would have taken him out already and we know many such cases. Why is he free in Bombo? But we must condemn him for the likes of Nassur thousands of Ugandans failed to escape death. Was it Nassur killing them? And what about under the likes of Moses Ali or Mustafa Adrisi were Ugandans escaping deaths? So it was only under the Nassur's? The man has challenged you publicly, that if he made you eat sandals put up your hand today. Today when he is still alive and in Bombo, do not wait for him to be in a comma as you have done on Amin. That is a direct challenge, Kironde did Nassur force you to eat them that is all we want to know. You are not answering that but you want Nassur to shut up and take full responsibly of the consequences of his freedom of _expression_. How about your self? Em The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie" - Original Message - From: Ed Kironde To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 10:22 PM Subject: RE: ugnet_: I LOVE AMIN SAYS NASUR I AM FOR FREEDOM OF _expression_ and if I had a chance, I would probably encourage Nasur to keep quite on certain issues. Having said that, Nasur must be willing to take full responsibility of the consequences of his freedom of _expression_. Adding insult to injury while trying to fit in society having escaped the noose, where thousands of Ugandans failed to escape[under the likes of Nasurs ] reign. ---Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).Version: 6.0.502 / Virus Database: 300 - Release Date: 7/18/2003
ugnet_: 12 AMERICANS SAID TO BE WOUNDED
12 US Troops Said Wounded Near Fallujah 8-1-3 AFP) -- An unknown number of US troops were wounded when assailants fired several rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) at a US convoy west of the rebel city of Fallujah, witnesses said."Several rockets were fired on a convoy and two jeeps and three armoured personnel carriers caught fire," witness Mohammad Hamad al-Halboussi told AFP at the scene."The attackers ran away and then came back to open fire with Kalashnikovs and pistols on the American soldiers," he added.The attack, which began at 7:00 am (0300 GMT), and the subsequent gun battle lasted about 90 minutes, in the village of Albu Alwan, seven kilometres (four miles) west of Fallujah, said Majid Ibrahim Allawi, adding that three Iraqi men were arrested."I was arrested for two hours by American forces and I saw 12 (US) soldiers on the ground.""They were driven in the direction of camp al-Habani," a former base of the Iraqi army now used by US forces.A US military spokeswoman contacted by AFP said she was not aware of the attack.At 10:30 am (0630 GMT), an AFP correspondent witnessed an explosion on the road in Albu Alwan which occurred 15 metres (yards) from a US patrol, but there were no casualties.Fallujah, a Sunni Muslim bastion 50 kilometers (30 miles) west of Baghdad, is the scene of frequent attacks on US forces occupying Iraq and relations in the town have been strained since US troops shot dead at least 16 demonstrators in April. The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
ugnet_: KELLY DEATH DETAILS REVEALED
Kelly Death Details Revealed By Charles ReissEvening Standard - UK8-1-3 The full tragic details of how weapons expert David Kelly killed himself were revealed for the first time today.As Lord Hutton's official inquiry into his death opened at the High Court, it was outlined how Dr Kelly had planned his suicide in intricate detail.Dr Kelly, the adviser at the centre of the row between the BBC and the Government over the "dodgy dossier" on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, methodically removed his watch and spectacles before slashing his left wrist, a Home Office pathologist said. Lord Hutton described the outcome of the post-mortem examination carried out by Dr Nicholas Hunt, a Home Office pathologist.He said that in the opinion of Dr Hunt the main factor in bringing about Dr Kelly's death was bleeding from an incised wound to his left wrist. Removal of watch and spectacles suggested a deliberate act of self-harm, Dr Hunt found.The pathologist had also said Dr Kelly had a significant degree of coronary artery disease and that this may have played some small part in the speed of death but was not a major cause of it.He said four electro-cardiogram pads were found on Dr Kelly's chest.Lord Hutton said: "It is clearly important that I and the public should have a very much more detailed and fuller picture of the facts than the outline I have just given. Therefore, the first task in this inquiry will be to flesh out that outline. This will be done at the next stage of the inquiry."He said he proposed to sit again on Monday 11 August.The inquiry will be carried out in two stages - the second of which threatens the greatest political hazard for Prime Minister Tony Blair, Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon, the BBC top brass and others involved in the dossier controversy.The first stage, Lord Hutton said, would be to establish the course of events leading up to the unmasking of Dr Kelly and his death. But that was bound to throw-up "discrepancies" between the various accounts and expose individuals to criticism.The second stage will see those criticised, or whose accounts are under question, recalled to face further cross-examination.That, clearly, could be the crunch for Mr Hoon and Alastair Campbell, both under question for the way in which Dr Kelly's name emerged in the public domain after he came forward to tell his bosses at the Ministry of Defence that he had held an unauthorised meeting with Andrew Gilligan, defence correspondent for the BBC Today programme.Dr Kelly's death at Harrowdown Hill, near his Oxfordshire home, on 17 July, rocked the Blair government.It followed his outing as the suspected mole, later confirmed by the BBC, who had spoken to Mr Gilligan about his doubts over the Government's claims of Iraq's WMD.In a dramatic opening statement Lord Hutton made its clear that all involved, from Tony Blair and his communications director Alastair Campbell, to BBC bosses, the wider media, minsters and officials, will face a detailed and politically dangerous investigation into any responsiblity they may have had over the tragedy.Today's statement from Lord Hutton, however, also threw up a fresh problem for the BBC and for Mr Gilligan. The statement revealed that Dr Kelly, when he first "owned up" to his meeting with the reporter, said he did not believe that he was the person responsible for the broadcaster's allegation that Downing Street had "sexed up" the Iraq weapons dossier.In a letter to his MoD line-manager, dated 30 June, he confirmed that he had met Mr Gilligan in London on 22 May.He said the pair spoke for 45 minutes during the evening to "privately discuss his Iraq experiences and definitely not to discuss the dossier".Dr Kelly wrote: "I did not even consider that I was the source of Gilligan's information until a friend in RUSI (Royal United Services Institute) said that I should look at the oral evidence provided to the Foreign Affairs Committee on 19 June because she recognised that some of the comments were the sort I would make about Iraq's chemical and biological capacity. The description of that meeting in small part matches my interaction with him, especially my personal evaluation of Iraq's capability, but the overall character is quite different."I can only conclude one of three things. Gilligan has considerably embellished my meeting with him; he has met with other individuals who truly were intimately associated with the dossier; or he has assembled comments from both multiple, direct and indirect sources for his
ugnet_: GI KILLED, 3 HURT IN ATTACK NEAR BAGHDAD
GI Killed, 3 Hurt in Attack Near Baghdad 5 minutes ago BAGHDAD, Iraq - A U.S. soldier was killed and three were wounded in a rocket-propelled grenade attack on their convoy east of Baghdad, the military reported Saturday. The soldier, killed late Friday, was the 52nd to die in combat in Iraq (news - web sites) since President Bush (news - web sites) declared major fighting over on May 1. So far 167 soldiers have died in the Iraq War, 20 more than during the 1991 Gulf War (news - web sites). The Arab satellite television broadcaster Al-Jazeera reported that one U.S. soldier also died Saturday morning in an attack north of the capital, but the military said it had no details on the incident. The military also announced Saturday that U.S. soldiers, firing in self-defense Friday, had killed a woman who was standing near where attackers dropped an explosive from an overpass onto the U.S. convoy below. The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
ugnet_: A BLAST IN MOMBASSA
Blast in Kenyan port city A policeman and a terror suspect have died and another policeman injured after a hand grenade exploded in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa. A suspect was detained in an anti-terrorist operation and was being taken to the central police station for interrogation. Whilst he was seated in the back of a police vehicle, being guarded by two police officers, he managed to detonate an explosive device concealed on his body. The grenade went off just outside Mombasa Central Police Station in the city's centre. 'Miracle' The BBC's Noel Mwakughu in Mombasa says that it is a miracle that there were no more casualties as many people were returning from work at the time of the blast in a busy commercial area of the city. The two policemen and the bomber were rushed to a hospital in the city where one officer and the suspect were pronounced dead. We don't see any evidence to link you with Al-Qaeda network Khalif Abdi Hussein Al-Qaeda suspect's ordeal The police say they were looking for two men in the Old Town of Mombasa in connection with an incident involving the discovery of some guns. The other man with the suspect escaped. The BBC's Andrew Harding says it is not clear yet whether these were suspected criminals or terrorists. Last November, al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for a bomb attack at a Mombasa hotel and a failed missile attack on an Israeli passenger jet. Since then America and Britain have both put out security alerts warning that al-Qaeda cells remain active in the region.
ugnet_: SADDAM'S SONS BURRIED, U.S SOLDIER KILLED
Saddam's Sons Buried; U.S. Soldier Killed 1 hour, 44 minutes ago By JAMIE TARABAY, Associated Press Writer BAGHDAD, Iraq - Leaders of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s tribe buried the ousted dictator's elder sons, Odai and Qusai, and a grandson Saturday, their bodies wrapped in Iraqi flags in a sign the family considered them to be martyrs. Also Saturday, the military said a U.S. soldier was killed and three were wounded in a rocket-propelled grenade attack on their convoy east of Baghdad on Friday. The soldier was the 52nd to die in combat in Iraq (news - web sites) since President Bush (news - web sites) declared major fighting over on May 1. So far, 167 soldiers have died in the Iraq War, 20 more than during the 1991 Gulf War (news - web sites). The Arab satellite television broadcaster Al-Jazeera reported that another U.S. soldier also died Saturday morning in an attack north of the capital, but the military had no details on the incident. Odai and Qusai two of the most powerful and feared men in Saddam's regime, after their father were buried in the stony soil of a family cemetery in their hometown of Tikrit, the Iraqi Red Crescent Society and the U.S. military said. Buried with them was 14-year-old Mustafa Hussein, Qusai's son, who also was believed killed in a fierce gunbattle with U.S. troops July 22 in Mosul, the northernmost Iraqi big city. A military official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the ceremony was quiet and uneventful. There were no outbursts of violence reported in the city. The U.S. military had feared the gathering for the burial could get out of hand, with a huge backlash against the big U.S. troop presence in and around the city. Iraqi Red Crescent Society president Jamal al-Karboli said his organization had taken the bodies of Odai and Qusai from the U.S. military in Tikrit. The military said it had nothing to do with the transfer of the bodies to Tikrit. Al-Karboli said Saddam relatives approached the Red Crescent four days ago, asking it to act as an intermediary in recovering the bodies. The bodies of the two men had been held in refrigeration at the U.S. base at Baghdad International Airport where they were prepared for burial according to Western not Muslim customs. The autopsies triggered a controversy, as Muslim tradition calls for bodies not to be embalmed or in any way retouched and for them to be buried before sundown on the day of death. U.S. military morticians had reconstructed the brothers' faces to look as lifelike as possible, and allowed Western journalists to videotape and photograph them, after Iraqi civilians were skeptical that Odai and Qusai were really dead. Images of the autopsied bodies were flashed across the Arab world by satellite broadcasters, dispelling doubts raised by still photographs of the brothers released shortly after their deaths in which their faces were obscured by heavy beards, blood and gashes. The Tigris River city of Tikrit remains one of the least pacified areas in the country. It sits squarely in the so-called "Sunni Triangle" north and west of Baghdad, where remnants of Saddam loyalists have conducted a guerrilla war against American occupation forces. The U.S. military also announced Saturday that U.S. soldiers firing in self-defense had killed a woman Friday who was standing near where attackers dropped an explosive from an overpass onto a U.S. convoy below. The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
Re: ugnet_: Murder: Gulu Plans to Sue Government
The price of Dope has been steadily falling since the beginning of July. Em The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie - Original Message - From: Ochan Otim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2003 2:47 PM Subject: Re: ugnet_: Murder: Gulu Plans to Sue Government Mr. Emmanuel Musaazi: You wrote: Mr. Ochan's article did not have a source I thought the first statement in my article was very clear about this: Translated from Rupiny Wednesday, 30th July, 2003 Rupiny is published by New Vision. Mr. Musaazi, next time you are on the New Vision web site, look for the link to Rupiny somewhere on top of the page. I acknowledge that I may not to help here if, as Mr. Njoki pointed out, you are using my posting as a cover up: I sincerely hope Mr. Musaazi that it is not the article itself you are not confortable with and just using the language issue as a cover-up. Ochan -- At 01:05 PM 8/2/03 -0500, you wrote: All i'm saying is that we should stick to one standard of representing information on this forum, so that attention is only given to the content of postings. Mr. Ochan's article did not have a source, so the content is not varifiabletherefore the translated version would have sufficed, besides i think we can all trust each other at this level, can't we? From: Paul Njoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ugnet_: Murder: Gulu Plans to Sue Government Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2003 11:34:42 +0200 (SAST) I don't understand the language at the very bottom of this posting, but I have a feeling that was is on top, that you Mr. Musaazi responded to, is a translation of whatever was in the original article. Let me get this clear. Are you Mr. Musaazi implying that anything which is not originally written in english should never find its way onto Ugandanet, even where a translation is included?! I guess the purpose of attaching the original article is to enable anyone who understands the vernatular in which the original article was written to verify that the translation given is a true representation of what was originally written/said in the original article. Would it be a consolation Mr. Musaazi, if I told you that I also don't understand the original article but I'm happy with the translation especially since no one has challenged it? I sincerely hope Mr. Musaazi that it is not the article itself you are not confortable with and just using the language issue as a cover-up. Nice weekend. Quoting emmanuel musaazi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Netters, can we all agree that the use of vernacular should be reduced or prohibitedi don't see the use of putting up postings that are not comprehensible to every Ugandanwe are Ugandans and the official language of Uganda is english.and please this is not meant to reduce or in any way shape or form diminish the seriousness of Mr. Ochan's article. I have been discouraging people from using luganda when responding to me. The use of vernacular is tolerable if it is one or two words but beyond that it becomes discomfiting to some of us who do not understand. From: Ochan Otim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ugnet_: Murder: Gulu Plans to Sue Government Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:54:52 -0700 Translated from Rupiny Wednesday, 30th July, 2003 --- -- Gulu Plans to Sue Government over murder Murder Odwong Wod Ayo Gulu District Council has voted to take the government to court over the destructive murder that the UPDF have committing in Gulu. Gulu Chairman, Lt. Col. Ochora has requested religious leaders in Gulu District to provide the district attorney with the names of everyone murdered and the places where these murders occurred so that legal action can be initiated against the government. Many UPDF soldiers have shot people in their own homes. The population is very upset that these murderers are still roaming the streets, Lalolgi Councillor Ben Acellam told the members. The Gulu DLC resolved to take the 'big' government (meaning GOU) to court on behalf of their kins who have been murdered by UPDF soldiers. One the other hand, Arthur Okot writes that Odoch Athi LC 5 councillor of Pabbo sub county informs that UPDF soldiers reached Akonyi Bedo PS school and caused destruction. Other crimes that Rupiny has unearthed is that there is a man in Bungatira sub-county who was tied up with a rope for three days until his hands
ugnet_: SOLDIERS ATTACKED AS SADDAM'S SONS BURRIED
Soldiers Attacked As Saddam's Sons Buried 55 minutes ago By STEVEN R. HURST, Associated Press Writer BAGHDAD, Iraq - Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s two elder sons and a grandson were buried as martyrs Saturday in rocky soil near the deposed leader's hometown, where insurgents afterward attacked U.S. troops with three remote controlled bombs. Despite the violence in Tikrit a center of anti-American guerrilla resistance the U.S. administrator for Iraq (news - web sites) declared he had not seen hatred of American troops among the country's people. Instead, L. Paul Bremer, chief of the American occupation administration, blamed incessant attacks against U.S. forces on foreign terrorists and three groups aligned with the ousted Saddam regime. He implied those fighters did not represent the larger Iraqi population. "I have not noticed any hatred among the Iraqi people for the American soldiers," Bremer said at a news conference. Yet in dozens of interviews conducted by The Associated Press, Iraqi citizens voiced growing bitterness and a desire for revenge against U.S. soldiers for the way they have allegedly treated the population while attempting to pacify the country. At least two American soldiers were injured in the remote-controlled explosions in Tikrit after elders of Saddam's tribe buried the ousted dictators sons Odai and Qusai, along with Qusai's 14-year-old son, in an outlying village. Tribal leaders chanted prayers over three side-by-side graves in the family plot in al-Uja, where the Iraqi leader was born. The family wrapped the three bodies in the nation's flag, designating them as martyrs for the Iraqi cause. They were killed in a gunbattle with American forces in the northern city of Mosul on July 22, after being on the run for more than three months. Their betrayer, thought to have been the owner of the villa where they were gunned down, received a $30 million reward from the United States and was spirited out of Iraq under U.S. protection. Lt. Col. Steve Russell, of the Tikrit-based 4th Infantry Division, said villagers wanted the funeral to be peaceful. "The people of al-Uja just wanted it over with, they didn't want to make a big deal about it," Russell said. He said tribal leaders contacted the army on Friday to tell them the bodies would be arriving. "One of the sheiks was very nervous about it all and came to our forces pleading that we be aware so nothing would happen to the people of al-Uja," Russell said. The army flew the bodies to an airfield just north of Tikrit, and sent them in Iraqi Red Crescent Society ambulances to the cemetery, Russell said. About 20 cars passed through an existing U.S. military checkpoint to reach the burial. Russell said soldiers observed proceedings from a distance but did not approach. The Red Crescent acted as intermediary between Saddam's family and the U.S. military, which had kept the bodies in refrigerated storage at Baghdad International Airport. Military morticians had reconstructed the brothers' faces to look lifelike, and allowed Western journalists to videotape and photograph them, after Iraqi civilians voiced skepticism that Odai and Qusai were really dead. Images of the autopsied bodies were flashed across the Arab world by satellite broadcasters, largely dispelling lingering doubts. Still, many Iraqis complained about the treatment of the bodies the autopsies and reconstruction of the brothers' faces as being deeply contrary to Muslim practice that demands corpses be buried untouched and before sundown on the day of death. Bremer, meanwhile, joined the chorus of U.S. officials, mainly in Washington, who have sought to blame the relentless attacks on American forces partly on foreign terrorists. Other violence, he said, was the work of remnants of Saddam's Baath Party, his Fedayeen Saddam militia, and the deposed and once-feared security forces. Beyond that, Bremer charged that Iraqi impatience with American inability to quickly return the country to a more normal existence was the fault of Saddam, who left behind "one of the world's most devastated economies." Noting a continuing shortage of diesel fuel, which
Re: ugnet_: Let Mukula, Eresu stay in the trenches or ship out
With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy. Em The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie" - Original Message - From: gook makanga To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2003 5:07 PM Subject: ugnet_: Let Mukula, Eresu stay in the trenches or ship out Let Mukula, Eresu stay in the trenches or ship outEditorialAugust 3, 2003 Two weeks ago, Minister of State for Health Mike Mukula appeared at Parliament building in military fatigues. Reason? To announce that he is part of the Arrow Group, a local paramilitary group mobilised by ISO chief Elly Kayanja to help the army hunt down LRA rebels in Teso. But before the country had quite sat down to accept Mukulas new-found wardrobe, another Teso leader Mr John Eresu (MP Kaberamaido) reportedly drove in an armoured military vehicle (Mamba) to a funeral in Kaberamaido. He was also in military fatigues, announcing that he was straight from the battlefield. Both Mr Mukula and Mr Eresu have no history of military service. Their behaviour has therefore prompted many Ugandans to refer to them as either tribalists who can only take up arms to fight rebels when their villages are attacked, or as simply being showy and using the rebel incursion into Teso to hog publicity. Whatever the case, Mukula and Eresus actions explain a deeper malaise that afflicts Uganda society; first, that power and respectability (but in reality, fear) comes from military uniform and second, the wanton misuse of public resources for otherwise private events. Take MP Eresu being driven to a funeral in a Mamba. A leader who is seriously concerned about the plight of his people would not divert a military vehicle which should otherwise be carrying out operations against rebels just to be taken to funeral when he has a Shs 20 million vehicle bought by tax payers by virtue of being MP. The people who need the Mambas are the soldiers who unfortunately are left trudging the war areas on bare feet. Yet the Eresus are not alone. Many senior army and government officials often fly army helicopters to their villages and nearly all senior civil servants and politicians use government vehicles to visit their concubines, drop their children at school or visit their villages. Some discipline and respectability needs to be brought to bear on those with access to public equipment/vehicles. As for the two leaders being in the Arrow Group, perhaps a little humility would do more to re-assure their constituents that they are doing something about their situation. Good fighters are those who stand in the sun after they have won the war and brought the peace. As things still stand, the war in Teso is far from over and if Mukula and Eresu really want to do something, they should stay in the trenches. © 2003 The Monitor Publications Gook "You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."- Malcom X MSN 8 helps ELIMINATE E-MAIL VIRUSES. Get 2 months FREE*.
ugnet_: MY BROTHER GR
I want to personally protest on you guys' behaviour towards the gays parade today, you were insensitive and un understanding, let us hope that you will be more acceptable to all of us next year. Em The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
ugnet_: NETTERS WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO OUR NATION?
Man beheads grandfather over shs. 50,000A man in his mid 20s has beheaded his 82-year-old grandfather with a panga over 50,000 shillings. The incident occurred on Friday afternoon at Sereno Village, Kalagala Sub County in Luweero District. Sentongo Abdullah became irate after the grandfather Sentongo Yahaya refused to give him 50,000 shillings (US $25) part of the money from a piece of land he sold The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
ugnet_: DO YOU HATE YOUR HAIR? BLAME YOUR MOTHER'S DIET
Hate Your Hair? Blame Your Mother's DietBy Maggie Fox Health and Science Correspondent8-2-3 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a study that shows more than ever you are what you eat, U.S. scientists said on Friday they had changed the coat colors of baby mice simply by altering their mothers' diets. The study shows that common nutrients can influence which genes turn on and off in a developing fetus, and help explain some of the factors that decide which genes "express" and which remain silent. Writing in Friday's issue of the journal Molecular and Cellular Biology, the scientists at Duke University Medical Center said they changed the color of baby mouse fur by feeding pregnant mice four supplements -- vitamin B12, folic acid, choline and betaine. Mice given the four supplements gave birth to babies predominantly with brown coats. Pregnant mice not fed the supplements gave birth mostly to babies with yellow coats. Careful study showed the extra nutrients turned down _expression_ of a gene called Agouti, which affects fur color. "We have long known that maternal nutrition profoundly impacts disease susceptibility in their offspring, but we never understood the cause-and-effect link," said Randy Jirtle, a professor of radiation oncology at Duke who directed the study. "For the first time ever, we have shown precisely how nutritional supplementation to the mother can permanently alter gene _expression_ in her offspring without altering the genes themselves," he said in a statement. The findings have not been shown in humans, but the researchers said there is much support for the idea that nutrition can affect gene _expression_ in people. Several studies have shown, for instance, that women who eat a poor diet while pregnant have children who grow up with a tendency to diabetes and heart disease. OBESITY, DIABETES LINK This study could help explain that. The Agouti gene not only affects coat color, but also metabolic factors involved in diabetes and heart disease. Mice with overactive Agouti genes tend to be obese and susceptible to diabetes because the protein controlled by the gene affects one brain signal involved in appetite. "Diet, nutritional supplements and other seemingly innocuous compounds can alter the development in utero to such an extent that it changes the offspring's characteristics for life, and potentially that of future generations," said researcher Rob Waterland, who worked on the study. Nutrition is likely to be one of the "environmental factors" that decides which genes turn on and which stay silent. Everyone inherits two copies of each gene -- one from each parent. For most functions, only one gene expresses while the other is silent. This idea, first explained by 19th century genetic pioneer Gregor Mendel with his experiments on green and yellow peas, can explain why two brown-eyed parents can have a blue-eyed child -- who may be expressing a grandparents' gene that was silent in the parent. "Our study demonstrates how early environmental factors can alter gene _expression_ without mutating the gene itself," said Waterland said. The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
ugnet_: THE FLAGS WERE STOLEN AT NIGHT
Flags Stolen From Sons Graves In Saddam's VillageBy Alexandre Peyrille8-3-3 AWJA, Iraq (AFP) - Tempers flared as the two Iraqi flags covering the earthen graves of Saddam Hussein's slain sons were stolen in the night under the noses of US soldiers guarding the cemetery in the fallen dictator's birthplace. "Nobody here would have done such thing. It is the Americans who have done that," said Walid Jassem, the local grocer in a village where most people claim allegiance to Saddam's family and were showered with luxury during his 24 years in power. The idea of US soldiers here in this bastion of the old regime burned the hearts of some. The fact they guarded the graves of Saddam's male heirs was positively blasphemous. "I have not gone there and will not go there as long as the soldiers are there," Jassem fumed. The hard brown dirt where the bodies lay was now marked by bricks, as the Americans controlled traffic to the cemetery where the bodies had been laid to rest in a low-key ceremony Saturday that US troops barred onlookers from joining. US soldiers searched cars Sunday as they left the grounds and said they had seen no one remove the Iraqi flags. Not reconciled to the Saddam Hussein family and, by extension, the Tikrit region's fall from prominence, Jassem said: "The day of revenge is near. We are going to battle against the Americans, but not with rocks like the Palestinians." The boast, one of many, was an indication that in the Tikrit region resistance was still alive and well, carried out by fighters like the Fedayeen militia founded by the late Uday. Local Rafah Berbuti also lauded the brothers. "They lived like kings and died as heroes," he said. "We regret that we were not alongside them when they fought the Americans. We will avenge them." The corpses of Uday and Qusay, and the latter's 14-year-old son Mustafa, were transported by US helicopter to Tikrit, 175 kilometers (110 miles) north of Baghdad, by helicopter Saturday morning and then transferred to Awja. The burial looked to close the final chapter in the saga that saw many Iraqis react with a mixture of skepticism, suspicion, and, of course, relief to the news of the men's deaths. The leading cleric in neighboring Tikrit cancelled a memorial service for Uday and Qusay under pressure from the chief of Saddam's tribe. The decision came after Sheikh Yehya Ibrahim al-Attawi met one of the leaders of Saddam's tribe on Sunday. "Mahmud al-Nada told me this morning that US forces do not want any gathering. There will be no memorial service" for Uday and Qusay, Attawi said. A memorial service for Monday had been advertised all over Tikrit, but Saddam's family backed down, in what may have been a condition imposed by the Americans for Uday, Qusay and Mustafa, to be buried Saturday in Awja. Attawi hammered the Americans for tightly controlling the mourning of Uday and Qusay that the coalition fears could become a rallying point for Saddam supporters. "They have promised to bring us democracy but this is no democracy. They are afraid of any gathering. They suspect everyone. They behave very badly. This is our country," the cleric said. Iraqis, deeply suspicious of US motives, only accepted the deaths when the coalition allowed journalists to film and photograph the corpses three days after they went down guns blazing against US soldiers in the northern city of Mosul on July 22. The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
ugnet_: By Muniini K. Mulera In Toronto
Ugandans It is very interesting to see Dr Mulera writing this kind of statements today, but I think he is too late to join the rest of Ugandans who have condemned daily these kinds of killings in Northern and eastern. And we must as well remember that Ugandans who are in those areas know full well who have supported their being killed. For let us not kid our selves, killing Northerners was not started yesterday, it has been going on for the last 20 years, so I will not challenge my friend Mulera to go back into history very long ago, so I will ask him only two very simple questions. 1) In the early 80's when Yoweri Museveni stated "Northerners are Biological substances, and many of these people are not fit to live with us" Can Dr Mulera produce where he publicly opposed that statement? 2) When Kiiza besigye stated "Acholis and Langis should be eradicated from Uganda" Can he produce where he opposed it? You see the danger is that today Northern Uganda has become a public case, and there is no one who has done this apart from the Northerners them selves, and if today in 2003 people like my friend and neighbour Dr Muniini Mulera can come up with such sentiments, can you imagine if he stood for the population in Northern Uganda from 1984 when he was the best seller of the NRM government in Canada? There is allot of blood that has been poured in Northern and Eastern Uganda, but we must never delude our selves that it is Museveni alone to blame, for that will be the greatest delusion. Em The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie" - Original Message - From: gook makanga To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 6:16 PM Subject: ugnet_: By Muniini K. Mulera In Toronto Letter to A Kampala Friend By Muniini K. Mulera In Toronto Northern killings bring out racism of UgandansAugust 4, 2003 Dear Tingasiga:On July 22, 2003, a Uganda Peoples Defence Force [UPDF] helicopter gunship killed nine civilians in Obalanga, Katakwi District. The victims were attending a funeral ceremony.Two days later, a military helicopter gunship killed 13 civilians who were tilling their gardens in Acholi-Bur, Pader District. Many others were injured. While these killings were duly reported by the Kampala news media, there has been little manifestation of our collective outrage at these massacres of unarmed civilians. I have scanned the newspapers from Kampala and around the world. The Kampala paers have told the story. The rest of the worlds scribes have been silent on the matter. I have read postings on UNAANET, an Internet Discussion group that brings together largely sober-minded and empathetic Ugandans in North America. Silence. Save for statements by a few Ugandan MPs and Prime Minister Apolo Nsibambis statement to parliament expressing the governments sadness at the news of the Pader incident, there has been little public _expression_ of outrage by regular citizens. It is business as usual. Perhaps the explanation is simply that Ugandans have murdered each other for so long that a few more deaths are neither here nor there. Perhaps we have become a nation of hardened souls, immune from the pain of losing fellow citizens, viewing violent death as part of doing government business. Yet I doubt that this is the explanation. After all, werent Ugandans rightly outraged by the killings of innocent Iraqi citizens by US and British fighter jets during the recent war against Saddam Hussein? Of course it could be that the deaths of Arabs in Mesopotamia at the hands of Americans engendered deeper emotions than the death of Africans at the hands of fellow Africans. Colonialism has had a deep effect on our self-image. However, I think that the major reason for the lack of public outrage over the massacres of fellow Ugandans in Katakwi [Teso] and Pader [Acholi] is racism. Uganda-style racism; the old north-south divide. The truth is, Tingasiga, the massacres in Katakwi and Pader happened to them, not to us. They occurred over there, in the land of they who did it to us in the Luwero Triangle and elsewhere before we overthrew them from power in 1986. That the vast majority of people of Acholi and Teso had absolutely nothing to do with the crimes committed by the
ugnet_: THE UNREPORTED COST OF WAR
The unreported cost of war: at least 827 American wounded Julian Borger, WashingtonMonday August 4, 2003The GuardianUS military casualties from the occupation of Iraq have been more than twice the number most Americans have been led to believe because of an extraordinarily high number of accidents, suicides and other non-combat deaths in the ranks that have gone largely unreported in the media. Since May 1, when President George Bush declared the end of major combat operations, 52 American soldiers have been killed by hostile fire, according to Pentagon figures quoted in almost all the war coverage. But the total number of US deaths from all causes is much higher: 112. The other unreported cost of the war for the US is the number of American wounded, 827 since Operation Iraqi Freedom began. Unofficial figures are in the thousands. About half have been injured since the president's triumphant appearance on board the aircraft carrier USS Lincoln at the beginning of May. Many of the wounded have lost limbs. The figures are politically sensitive. The number of American combat deaths since the start of the war is 166 - 19 more than the death toll in the first Gulf war. The passing of that benchmark last month erased the perception, popular at the time Baghdad fell, that the US had scored an easy victory. According to a Gallup poll, 63% of Americans still think Iraq was worth going to war over, but a quarter want the troops out now, and another third want a withdrawal if the casualty figures continue to mount. In fact, the total death toll this time is 248 - including accidents and suicides - and as the number of non-combat deaths and serious injuries becomes more widely known, the erosion of public confidence is likely to continue, posing a threat to Mr Bush's prospects of re-election, which at the beginning of May had seemed a foregone conclusion. Military observers say it is unusual, even in a "low-intensity" guerrilla war such as the situation seen in Iraq, for non-combat deaths to outnumber combat casualties. The Pentagon does not tabulate the cause of those deaths, but according to an American website that has been tracking official reports, Iraq Coalition Casualty Count, 23 American soldiers have died in car or helicopter accidents since May 1, while 12 have been killed in accidents with weapons or explosives. Three deaths have been categorised as "possible suicides", three have died from illness, and three from drowning. The rest are unexplained. Wounded American soldiers continue to be flown back to the US at a relentless rate, in twice-weekly transport flights to Andrews air force base near Washington. Hospital staff are working 70- or 80-hour weeks, and the Walter Reed army hospital in Washington is so full that it has taken over beds normally reserved for cancer patients to handle the influx, according to a report on CBS television. Meanwhile, at the nearby national naval medical centre in Bethesda, new marine injuries are delivered almost daily by a medical plane known as the Nightingale. The Pentagon figure for "wounded in action" in Iraq is 827, but here again the total number of injuries appears to be much higher. The estimate given by central command in Qatar is 926, but according to Lieutenant-Colonel Allen DeLane, who is in charge of the airlift of the wounded into Andrews air base, that too is understated. "Since the war has started, I can't give you an exact number because that's classified information, but I can say to you over 4,000 have stayed here at Andrews, and that number doubles when you count the people that come here to Andrews and then we send them to other places like Walter Reed and Bethesda, which are in this area also," Col DeLane told National Public Radio. He said 90% of injuries were directly war-related. Some of that number may involve double-counting - if a soldier stays at the Andrews clinic on the way to Washington and then again on the way back to the war or back home, for example. But the actual number of wounded still appears to be much higher than the official figures. "When the facility where I'm at started absorbing the people coming back from theatre [in April], those numbers went up significantly - I'd say over 1,200," Col DeLane said. "That number even went up higher in the month of May, to about 1,500, and continues to increase." The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
ugnet_: HYUNDAI CHIEF FACING TRIAL COMMITS SUICIDE
By Yoo Choonsik SEOUL (Reuters) - A top Hyundai Group executive, enmeshed in a payments scandal over a landmark summit between North and South Korea (news - web sites), leapt to his death from his high-rise office building on Monday, police said. Chung Mong-hun, 54, jumped from the 12th floor of the Hyundai building in central Seoul some time after midnight and died at around 2:00 a.m. (1700 GMT, Sunday), police told reporters. "I ask you all to forgive me for doing this foolish thing," Chung said in one of several suicide notes found in his office from where he is believed to have jumped, domestic media said. The fifth son of the late Chung Ju-yung, who founded what was once South Korea's largest business conglomerate, Chung had been facing trial on charges linked to the secret transfer of $500 million to the communist North before a historic June 2000 summit between the South's then-President Kim Dae-jung (news - web sites) and the North's reclusive leader, Kim Jong-il. President Roh Moo-hyun, who five months ago took over a country faced with a slowing economy and an escalating crisis over North Korea (news - web sites)'s nuclear ambitions, vowed to push ahead with Chung's work as chairman of unlisted Hyundai Asan Co in promoting ties with North Korea. "Regardless of his death, I will try my best to advance current North-South Korea business projects, which must go forward without interruption," Roh said in a statement. Chung's company issued a statement saying: "He apologized to the Korean people because of the allegations related to the payment of funds from the company to North Korea." Chung had been questioned three times by prosecutors in the last two weeks and was also accused of embezzling 15 billion won ($12.7 million) in company funds. NORTH KOREA PROJECTS A frequent visitor to North Korea, he had requested his ashes be scattered at Mount Kumgang, a scenic resort in the North where Hyundai operated ferry tours offering South Koreans a rare chance to visit the communist state, the media said. The "cash-for-summit" scandal, which broke in February, ensnared not only Chung but several top aides to former president Kim Dae-jung. Kim Dae-jung won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2000 for his "Sunshine Policy" of reconciliation with the North, but the business deals and other exchanges with the North envisioned at the Pyongyang summit floundered amid diplomatic disputes with Seoul's ally, Washington. Hyundai Asan did break ground in June on a long-delayed $180 million industrial park in the North Korean city of Kaesong. However, government investigators said $500 million in secret payments were funneled to North Korea from Hyundai Asan with the help of Kim's aides before the June 2000 summit. At the time, the opposition was in control of parliament and a reconciliation with North Korea -- which remains technically at war with the South -- was controversial. Hyundai and government officials said $400 million was used for the company to secure monopoly rights for business and tourism ventures in North Korea. But $100 million was sent just days before Kim Dae-jung's landmark handshake with Kim Jong-il. Share prices of Hyundai companies fell on the news of Chung's death, though analysts differed over the impact with some saying his demise could disrupt inter-Korea cooperation while others saw scant effect because much business with the North has been transferred to state-run firms. Hyundai Merchant and Marine and four other listed firms that were under Chung's control fell on average six percent while the broad market finished down one percent. They are among a small group of former Hyundai Group companies that Chung had headed since the conglomerate was split into smaller groups after the 1997 Asian financial crisis. (Additional reporting by Paul Eckert and Frances Yoon) The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
Re: ugnet_: By Muniini K. Mulera In Toronto
Gook That is very true and to the point. However there is another look we must take on Dr. Mulera and the friends who are now trumpeting the Reform Agenda. Mulera's style from day one has been to use classes in our nation, both in Uganda and in Canada. His argument has all along been those people and then them selves, the ones who are right and who can rule Uganda better, and that is exactly where and how he gave NRM his undoubtedly full support by using the Canadian media and Uganda forums. That is no secret to any one in these forums. Today in 2003 August, Mulera is telling us what we all along did not know and I quote "However, I think that the major reason for the lack of public outrage over the massacres of fellow Ugandans in Katakwi [Teso] and Pader [Acholi] is racism. Uganda-style racism; the old north-south divide. " So in essence Mulera is stating that classifying Ugandans is a terrible thing that we all must never do. But in the very same article he wrote in Monitor he states and I again quote "I have read postings on UNAANET, an Internet Discussion group that brings together largely sober-minded and empathetic Ugandans in North America. Silence." The fact that Mulera's problem is not peace in Uganda but who is in the State House. The long time he has spent in the wildness, he has not picked up anything new. For again hegoes back in his old bag and he classify the same Ugandans that he is telling to stop thoselines. So for him the Ugandans who are on UNAANET are the only ones who are sober, the rest of the Ugandans out there, in other forums are not sober. That is Dr. Mulera's problem. The failure to understand that all Ugandans are equal. And let us be fair to those who are new to this very old adage, Dr Mulera was a full member of Ugandanet, and he used it to the optimum to sing the NRM song unconditionally, record must as well indicate that Mulera opposed the notion that the killing of Northerners and Easterners is a government sponsored program. Ugandans became tired and decided to take Mulera head on and he ran away. The same Mulera took his testimony to fednet, a forum again where Ugandans rejected his support of who ever is in state house, again he ran away. Mulera found refugee in UNAANET, the question remains for how long? It is very sad that today he is stating that themembers of UNAANET are the only ones who are sober, so what is he going to call them after they show his lies as happened in two separate Uganda forums? And I conclude, that as long as there are Mulera's out there, who decide to feed on every chance and change which comes into Uganda, or appears to come to Uganda, the Mulera's who decide to make now the Bakiga tribe a very important issue in Uganda politics, that he evensets up a Bakiga conference in Toronto, thanks to the dream of Kiiza Besigye's ambition to come to power. The onus ison Ugandans to spot these malfunctions we have in our society and to make them public. With out that we will have many deaths in Uganda, today the helicopter went toPader but tomorrow it will be in Rukungiri. Ugandans be ware of the Mulera's we have in society. Em The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie" - Original Message - From: gook makanga To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 11:33 AM Subject: Re: ugnet_: By Muniini K. Mulera In Toronto Mulindwa, Munini is a classical case of what he condemns in his article. As long as the NRM/A was killing only the Acholis and other biological substances, it was alright for him. As long as he was still "eating" at the trough of the Victors, it was ok. But now things have come closer to home. A fellow Munyakabale has been identified, isolated and is soon to be crushed! It is only this realization that has now dawned on Munini. It isthis that has woken him from his long "sleep". For us who have always seen the NRA/M/M7 for what it is, we say welcome Munini to this sad realization. Late and little as it may be, We none the less say welcome to the nightmare that you helped usher in Uganda! Gook "You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."- Malcom X Original Message Follows From: "Mulindwa Edward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>CC: "Anne Mugisha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: ugnet_: By Muniini K. Mulera In Toronto Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 19:11:07 -0400 Ugandans It is very interesting to see Dr Mulera writing
ugnet_: By Muniini K. Mulera In Toronto
Matek It is so sad that our people can flip this well. Museveni comes to power and every Northerner is a biological substance, and well they can die as long as we sleep. Today the same Ugandans, Lutimba Matovu and Muniini Mulera are the very same ones who are very concerned for Northerners are dying. And on what I have even read on Ugandanet, Even Ssabasajja now cares. Under normal circumstances I would have flipped, but there is a point which is very important that we must never forget. The arrangement to kill Northerners and Easterners, was made between them and the Mulera's the Matovu's the Ssabasaja's and every single Ugandan who decided toblindly support NRM for his/her own financial gains. But under the belly of this problem are Ugandans with real life who have lost millions and millions of their own, people who have passed through agesof suffering that we can not even temper to understand the equivalence. And I come from Luwero where I was all the time when the Museveni's and Kiiza Besigye's were killing indiscriminately, but we were not held for 20 years, so I can not even equate my self to the understanding. The Easterners who are killed at random. Those are the peopleDr. Muniini Mulera Kwehangana and Lutimba Matovu should explain to why they allowed these massacres to continue under the dubious praise of NRM. And the little information we are getting from Northern Uganda, you bet they will want to know. And if I was Mulera and Matovu I would start my mission in Paida not on Ugandnet or Monitor. But that is me. Em The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie" - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 5:50 PM Subject: Re: ugnet_: By Muniini K. Mulera In Toronto This in the year 2003. Where was the kabaka for all those 17 years when Yoweri Mucebeni troops were murdering citizens in Northern Uganda? That , then, is the question.MK In a message dated 8/4/2003 5:28:19 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mulindwa,Everybody cares, read on."The Kabaka pleaded with the government to end the 17-year-old insurgency in the northern region."Kabaka Mutebi said that he feels a lot of sympathyespecially for the innocent children suffering in thenorth.We pray that everything possible is done to restorepeace in this region, he said. 2003 The Monitor Publications--- Mulindwa Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Ugandans
ugnet_: WAR CASUALITY OVERFLOWS WALTER REED HOSPITAL
War casualties overflow Walter Reed hospitalBy Jon WardTHE WASHINGTON TIMES Officials at Walter Reed Army Medical Center are referring some outpatients to nearby hotels because casualties from operations in Afghanistan and Iraq have overloaded the hospital's convalescence facility. "We have an informal agreement with any number of hotels in the area. If we come to this point, they will take [patients] for us," said Walter Reed spokesman Jim Stueve. "They're very supportive and cooperative when we need that assistance." Mr. Stueve could not specify how many soldiers are in hotels, but said Walter Reed is referring about 20 patients or their relatives to hotels each day. Hotels in Silver Spring, just across the D.C. line, offer discounted rates for outpatients and their families, and the military pays the bill. However, the hotel arrangement has not compromised the quality of care for incoming wounded, Mr. Stueve said. "The staff is highly motivated to get these troops mended and on their way," he said. A hospital spokeswoman said: "We haven't turned away any injured soldiers. We are treating all of them." The Army hospital and its convalescence facility, Mologne House, are at maximum occupancy capacity, with 96 percent of their outpatient beds filled with war wounded. Walter Reed has been at maximum capacity since Operation Enduring Freedom began in Afghanistan in 2001, Mr. Stueve said, adding that the hospital's 3,900 staffers have "put in a substantial amount of overtime." Before Enduring Freedom, the hospital's occupancy rate had held steady at 83 percent for five years. "We haven't been average here for well over a year. We've been really busy. They've been rolling in here real regular," Mr. Stueve said. The Mologne House is a 280-bed facility for outpatients who need continued care or rehabilitation, as well as their families. "Anybody who comes here and wants to stay there can't," said a hospital spokeswoman. The hospital has 40 of 250 beds available for inpatients, but must continually open beds for new arrivals from Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany or the U.S. Naval Hospital in Rota, Spain. "We have flights coming in almost every night from Landstuhl, so you don't book that sucker up solid so when you have your No. 1 priority come in, you say, 'You can't stay here,'" Mr. Stueve said. Walter Reed has treated about 750 patients from Operation Iraqi Freedom since the war began, 185 of whom have been battle casualties. Of the 185 battle casualties, 135 have been treated as inpatients and 50 as outpatients. The total number of battle casualty patients discharged is 111, including one death, leaving 24 currently at the medical center as inpatients. One of the hospital's best known patients Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch left Walter Reed last month to return to her family's home in West Virginia. A current inpatient is still in critical condition. Two others remain in critical but stable condition. Walter Reed physicians describe the conditions of other inpatients as ranging from fair to good. The patients have broken bones, orthopedic injuries, gunshot wounds and other minor injuries. The hospital received seven battle casualties this week. Four are in serious but stable condition, one is in fair condition, and one is in satisfactory condition. The seventh received treatment as an outpatient. President Bush declared an end to major combat in Iraq on May 1. But U.S. troops there continue to come under attack almost daily by resistance fighters, especially in cities north and west of Baghdad, where Sunni Muslims were the strongest supporters of ousted dictator Saddam Hussein. The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
ugnet_: AMERICAN KIDS SLEEP IN FRIDGES
Soldier Sleeps In Fridge To Escape Iraq Heat8-3-3 LONDON (Reuters) - A British soldier serving in Iraq tried to escape from the sweltering heat by sleeping in a walk-in fridge but ended up being treated for hypothermia. The lance corporal, an army medic in his 20s, had sought shelter from the blazing summer sun but was found asleep in a dangerous condition by a colleague and was taken to hospital, the Daily Mirror newspaper reported Saturday. The soldier told officers he had become trapped while getting supplies but they didn't believe him, the paper said. "The lad was a bit of a fool to think he could have a kip in a fridge and not suffer from pretty bad consequences," a fellow soldier told the Mirror. "But it's so hot here that most people kind of understand what was behind his bizarre logic." An army spokesman told the paper the soldier had recovered but was embarrassed. The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
Re: ugnet_: Don't Worry About Federo-Museveni
Mwami Kironde Which dupe are you asking that happened in Uganda with the same equivalency as the Museveni/NRM? Can you please clarify before we wait for Yao's response? Em The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie - Original Message - From: Ed Kironde [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 10:15 PM Subject: RE: ugnet_: Don't Worry About Federo-Museveni Yaobang I congratulate you on your new position you have taken to be on the look-out for the Baganda, prophesying how Museveni is going to dupe them again on Federo. It is a brave stand you have taken to be concerned about the Bagnda at the time when it baffles many for any Southerners to make any comments about the carnage subjected to the people of Northern Uganda by Kony's ferocious banditry activities. Hopefully the Baganda whose cause you have chosen to champion will not ask where was Yaobang when thousands were not only duped, but slaughtered by previous regimes headed by Northerners. May the stars continue to guide you so that you point out to the Baganda what might befall them yet again in the future! --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.506 / Virus Database: 303 - Release Date: 8/1/2003
ugnet_: AFGHANISTAN. A NATION TONY BLAIR SET FREE
Afghans on Edge of ChaosAs opium production and banditry soar, the country is at risk of anarchy, some warn, and could allow a Taliban resurgenceBy Robyn DixonThe Los Angeles Times Monday 04 August 2003 WARDAK, Afghanistan - Two months after a gun attack, the bullet holes in the Datsun sedan have been patched and it runs beautifully. But water engineer Asil Kahn walks with a limp and he still has two bullets in his body, one of them half an inch from his spine. The vehicle's humanitarian logo made him a victim in the battle for Afghanistan's future, where water engineers, mine-clearers and humanitarian workers - people the country needs most - are prime targets for militants trying to destabilize President Hamid Karzai's interim government. The May attack on the Afghanistan Development Agency car in Wardak province, south of Kabul on the road to Kandahar, injured Kahn but killed the driver. "They weren't robbers or thieves," said Kahn, 46. "They just wanted to kill us. They're people against the government. They thought that maybe there would be some foreigners or some officials from aid organizations in the car. That's why they shot us." U.S. forces have their hands full trying to subdue attacks in Iraq. But with the slow buildup of a national Afghan army, an inadequate U.S. and coalition presence and poor progress on reconstruction projects, Afghanistan is spiraling out of control and risks becoming a "narco-mafia" state, some humanitarian agencies warn. Already the signs are there - a boom in opium production, rampant banditry and huge swaths of territory unsafe for Western aid workers. The central government has almost no power over regional warlords who control roads and extort money from truck drivers, choking commerce and trade. If the country slips into anarchy, it risks becoming a haven for resurgent Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters. And the point of U.S. military action here could be lost - a major setback in the war against terrorism. Money spent on the war may end up being wasted, and dragging the country back from chaos could be even more costly. America spends about $900 million a month on its forces stationed here, but little of the $3 billion authorized for aid in the Freedom Support Act has been spent. U.S. promises of a Marshall Plan for Afghanistan raised Afghan expectations, but security and reconstruction woes are undermining support for the coalition among ordinary Afghans. Their disappointment and disillusionment plays into the hands of anti-government militants. Humanitarian agencies, calling for a big boost in international funds for security and reconstruction, contend that the commitment to Afghanistan is relatively low. A CARE International paper in January stated that postwar international aid spent in Bosnia-Herzegovina was $326 per capita, compared with $42 promised for Afghans up to 2006. For every peacekeeping soldier there were 48 Bosnians, compared with one for every 5,380 Afghans, the paper said. Yet Bosnia poses no appreciable terrorist threat. There are 8,500 U.S. military personnel leading the 11,500 anti-terrorist coalition forces in Afghanistan. An additional 5,000 international troops secure the capital city, Kabul. A key missing piece is an Afghan army, but with only 4,000 troops trained so far, it will take many years to reach the planned 70,000-strong force. It won't be ready in time to ensure free and fair elections scheduled for June. Some of the 4,000 trained soldiers have already defected because of poor salaries and low morale. The security vacuum outside Kabul has emboldened Taliban fighters, who constitute the bulk of anti-government militants, some who cross from Pakistan, others based in the east and south. U.S. officials say the Taliban controls part of the opium business, a rich source of funds to attract fighters. As security worsens, there are sharp differences between the aid community and Western leaders on how to prevent a deepening slide. Many in the international aid community in Kabul believe the coalition's latest response to the security problem - small scale military teams tackling modest reconstruction projects - will have little impact and will put aid workers at more risk by blurring the line between them and soldiers. About 40% of the $5.2 billion pledged by the international community last year has been spent but with little progress on big reconstruction projects like the Kabul-to-Kandahar road. Much of the money has been eaten up by emergency relief - food, medicine, blankets and tents. Haji Abdul Khaliq, 54, arrived in Kabul exhausted by 14 hours on the shattering, rocky track of a highway from Kandahar. It was inconceivable to him that $2 billion had been spent in his country since January last year. "From what we can see, they didn't spend more than a dollar," he spluttered angrily. "There are no paved roads, no reconstruction of government buildings, no help for the people
ugnet_: LESIBIANISM GROWING IN UGANDA
Uganda: Specialists explain growing lesbianism Panapress (PANA), By Samson NtaleKampala - While relationships of gays and lesbians are widely criticised as unnatural, funny and a deviation from the God given sexual order, lesbianism is slowly registering more converts here in Uganda.Social analysts say soon society would be seeing it as just one of the many forms of sex."But why would a normal human being (Ugandan) opt for sexual fulfilment with a person of the same sex?" is the question this correspondent posed to researchers undertaking a study on lesbianism in this landlocked East African country."Sexual gratification is the answer. The human brain notes and records any improvement in the quality of a sexual act. And the higher you go in adulthood, the more disappointed you become with the sex that has fallen short of the standard," says researcher Ibrahim Kamya, whose study on lesbianism started last year and is nearing completion."Naturally, a woman knows better how she can be best stimulated, unlike the man who can be easily aroused. This knowledge becomesricher with sexual exposure and experience as she knows what triggers off her best sensation that either leads to quicker or more intense orgasm."Any sex that fails to take the right turns at the right bends will destroy the pattern and wreck the whole adventure," Kamya notes.He adds: "But when two women romance they behave like old brooms, they know all the corners, and they are freer to each other, candirect each other to more sensitive areas and learn from each other how to enhance the gratification derived from certain sensitivities."Kamya points out that the kind of freedom lesbians expose each other to do not arise often enough with heterosexual encounters on account of the African cultural disposition. He observes that, "many African men do not want to be given lessons when the game (intercourse) has started, as it injures their ego.""Many approach sex with the know-it-all kind of attitude. They approach sex selfishly aiming at gratifying themselves and leaving their partners empty. This is also reason for so many cases of sex outside marriage," Kamya observed.Florence Nayiga, a 62-year-old grand mother offering traditional sexual counselling, backs up the researcher with a revelation that many women decide to sacrifice sexual gratification to keep the man for social and financial reasons."This is done by pretending they are getting what they want and even praise the man while praying deep inside their souls for a better performer."Most of the time they (women) just leave it (lack of satisfaction) at that, but more daring ones will take a chance outside their affair," Nayiga observed."Under such circumstances when they meet a man who makes them freer, shows willingness to take lessons and consequently 'engages the right gears' at the right time, they will get stuck on him," traditionalist Nayinga told PANA Sunday.She notes, however, "Such men are rare. That is why many women are getting drawn to fellow women. It begins as a romance and develops into full blown penetrative sex."Researcher Kamya opined that most women with unfulfilling sexual partners have "a good friend with whom they are enjoying the difference. And as long as their sex with a man fails to match, their friendly fire will go on.""Others soon lose interest in normal sex that mental comparison eventually makes them fail to get stimulated, thereby getting hurt, bored or criticised in the process."So they abandon the male and female affair and openly register under lesbians. When they discover that it is more fun, gratifying and dependable they get confidence to come out in the open," Kamya asserted. The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
ugnet_: SEVERAL WOUNDED IN NEW ATTACKS IN IRAQ
Several Wounded In New Attacks On US Forces In IraqBy Naseer Al-Nahr - Asharq Al-Awsat8-5-3 BAGHDAD -- Five US soldiers and an Iraqi translator were wounded in attacks here yesterday and a police station was torched as the US-led coalition scoured the globe for nations willing to replace some of its combat-weary troops. Iraqi civilians were also being struck down in the low-level war between US troops and loyalists of Saddam Hussein, while a military spokesman acknowledged four people were killed by US fire during a hunt for the fugitive strongman in Baghdadâs upmarket neighborhood of Mansour last week. Meanwhile, the United States and Britain have called for a UN Security Council meeting to discuss the situation in Iraq, the Security Council president said yesterday. The council may meet on Thursday or Friday at the request of those two countries, said Syrian Ambassador Mikhail Wehbe, who is presiding over the 15-nation UN Council for August. In a bold move, insurgents wounded three soldiers and an Iraqi translator in an anti-tank rocket and bomb attack yesterday near the heavily fortified Baghdad police headquarters, the nexus for law enforcement in the city of five million. It was the second attack of the day after soldiers were again ambushed on the lethal route to Baghdad airport, where convoys regularly come under fire. "Today, at 9:25 a.m. (0525 GMT), on the airport road, an improvised explosive device was thrown on a convoy of the Third Armored Division," Sgt. Marc Ingham said. "Two soldiers were wounded and one Humvee disabled." In a third clash yesterday, Iraqi police opened fire on armed men who fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a US military vehicle and accompanying police in Khalidiya, 100 kilometers (60 miles) west of Baghdad. Residents protesting the presence of US troops attacked the Khalidiya town hall and a police station, which they set alight, as the US Army called in helicopter-backed reinforcements to restore order in the town, considered a hotbed of support for the former regime. It was a setback for the US-led coalitionâs efforts to rehabilitate the countryâs security services, as training for the postwar Iraqi Army was due to get under way this week. North of Baghdad, in Saddamâs hometown of Tikrit, the 4th Infantry Division grabbed another guerrilla fighter, and boasted its intelligence was tightening the noose on its enemies. Lt. Col. Steve Russell said yesterday the coalition had captured another key link in the chain of localized resistance. The coalition denies there is any national organization for the insurgents. ãThe main guy we targeted last night turned himself in this morning. He was an organizer, a former regime loyalist,ä Russell said. The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
Re: ugnet_: By Muniini K. Mulera In Toronto
When did Emanuel Musaazi arrive from Mars? Em The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie - Original Message - From: emmanuel musaazi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 12:34 PM Subject: Re: ugnet_: By Muniini K. Mulera In Toronto ...as horrible as the northern crisis is, one can't help but notice the silence and lack of outrage of notherners (particularly those on this forum) towards Kony and his band of criminals and to me that is surprising. I would hope that this tragedy is not being used by die-hard opponents of the government as a political trump card, because that would be a shame and a disgrace (petty politics at it's worst). We should also remember that hundreds of UPDF soldiers have died trying to protect innocent civilians in the north, they also deserve some sympathy. From: Mulindwa Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Anne Mugisha [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ugnet_: By Muniini K. Mulera In Toronto Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 19:11:07 -0400 Ugandans It is very interesting to see Dr Mulera writing this kind of statements today, but I think he is too late to join the rest of Ugandans who have condemned daily these kinds of killings in Northern and eastern. And we must as well remember that Ugandans who are in those areas know full well who have supported their being killed. For let us not kid our selves, killing Northerners was not started yesterday, it has been going on for the last 20 years, so I will not challenge my friend Mulera to go back into history very long ago, so I will ask him only two very simple questions. 1) In the early 80's when Yoweri Museveni stated Northerners are Biological substances, and many of these people are not fit to live with us Can Dr Mulera produce where he publicly opposed that statement? 2) When Kiiza besigye stated Acholis and Langis should be eradicated from Uganda Can he produce where he opposed it? You see the danger is that today Northern Uganda has become a public case, and there is no one who has done this apart from the Northerners them selves, and if today in 2003 people like my friend and neighbour Dr Muniini Mulera can come up with such sentiments, can you imagine if he stood for the population in Northern Uganda from 1984 when he was the best seller of the NRM government in Canada? There is allot of blood that has been poured in Northern and Eastern Uganda, but we must never delude our selves that it is Museveni alone to blame, for that will be the greatest delusion. Em The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie - Original Message - From: gook makanga To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 6:16 PM Subject: ugnet_: By Muniini K. Mulera In Toronto Letter to A Kampala Friend By Muniini K. Mulera In Toronto Northern killings bring out racism of Ugandans August 4, 2003 Dear Tingasiga: On July 22, 2003, a Uganda People's Defence Force [UPDF] helicopter gunship killed nine civilians in Obalanga, Katakwi District. The victims were attending a funeral ceremony. Two days later, a military helicopter gunship killed 13 civilians who were tilling their gardens in Acholi-Bur, Pader District. Many others were injured. While these killings were duly reported by the Kampala news media, there has been little manifestation of our collective outrage at these massacres of unarmed civilians. I have scanned the newspapers from Kampala and around the world. The Kampala paers have told the story. The rest of the world's scribes have been silent on the matter. I have read postings on UNAANET, an Internet Discussion group that brings together largely sober-minded and empathetic Ugandans in North America. Silence. Save for statements by a few Ugandan MPs and Prime Minister Apolo Nsibambi's statement to parliament expressing the government's sadness at the news of the Pader incident, there has been little public expression of outrage by regular citizens. It is business as usual. Perhaps the explanation is simply that Ugandans have murdered each other for so long that a few more deaths are neither here nor there. Perhaps we have become a nation of hardened souls, immune from the pain of losing fellow citizens, viewing violent death as part of doing government business. Yet I doubt that this is the explanation. After all
ugnet_: DR MUNIINI MULERA THE OPPORTUNIST
Ugandans Mwaami Kijyomanyi has asked several questions toDr. Muniini Mulera that I feel the Doctor will take thetime to respond, I however want to respond to one question he paused and I quote "And by the way, was the Acholi tragedy ever deliberated on during the Banyakigezi conference?" And the answer to that question is No. The Acholi tragedy was not deliberated on during the Banyakigezi conference, for the conference was not set up to attack Uganda's problem/s, the conference was set up to organise and preparethe Bakiga, to replace the powerful positions currently occupied by the Banyankolein Uganda, when Kiiza Besigye gets to power. This was Dr. Mulera's grass root working. Let us remember that he was involved as well in the NRM grass root work when he was an NRM untill when NRM threw him out. In fact those of you who have been long enough in these forums will remember when Mulera took UNAA to Uganda, that was a man sinking in an ocean and tries to swallow the water. At least we have cleared that one. Em The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie" - Original Message ----- From: Mulindwa Edward To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; Anne Mugisha Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 8:16 PM Subject: ugnet_: DR MUNIINI MULERA "THE OPPORTUNIST" From: "WB Kyijomanyi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: TueAug5,2003 2:52 pmSubject: Dr. Muniini-Northern killings bring out racism of Ugandans Listers: I found this piece by Dr. Muniini interesting. IfDr. Muniini is still with us, I have justtwo questions for him; One, for how long has he been writing this column in The monitor? Two, on how many occasions has he written about the plight of Acholi?. Specifically, prior to the fallout caused by the Dr. Besigye's candidacy, how many articles had Dr. Muniini written about the situation in Acholi? When did he finally realize that there was an Acholi or Nothern problem? These questions are important because they go to his own credibility or lack thereof. And by the way, was the Acholi tragedy ever deliberated on during the banyakigezi conference? And is Dr. Muniini not one of those advocating for war to overthrow the movementregime? What does he expect to happen once that war is underway? How can Dr. Muniini write so passionately about the acholi trgaedy, and it is a tragedy yet on the other hand he agitatingfor war. He acctually alerted us here to expectvita mallum. Time has come to tell Ugandans the truth: to stop playing with our people's (peasant's lives). On of the greatest mistake Ugandans made is to shy away and let people have it both ways. See what has happened folks. No more double speak. As they say "abatallinamanyo mukama baawa enyamma (sp) loosely translated God gives meat to those without firm teeth. The message behind this saying is clear: just look at the people given the power to preach through their columns. Dr. Munnini (for The Monitor) and Mr. Opio-Oloya (For New Vision) and both writing from Canada. What have they done withtheir columns? Tell Ugandans about pettiness and personal stories. And let the truth be said, both have been pro-movement until very recently. We need to know how many articles Dr. Muniini in particular has written about the tragedy in Acholi prior to the last presidential election. We are waiting. It will be a pleasant surprise if Dr. Muniini can produce 5 pieceson the tragedyin Acholi. As they say again "owebango bwotomuwemukiira tewebbiikka" (sp). Loosely translated, if you share a bed with someone with a hump, you must be blunt with him or else you will not cover yourself. WBK The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
ugnet_: DR MUNIINI MULERA THE OPPORTUNIST
From: "WB Kyijomanyi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: TueAug5,2003 2:52 pmSubject: Dr. Muniini-Northern killings bring out racism of Ugandans Listers: I found this piece by Dr. Muniini interesting. IfDr. Muniini is still with us, I have justtwo questions for him; One, for how long has he been writing this column in The monitor? Two, on how many occasions has he written about the plight of Acholi?. Specifically, prior to the fallout caused by the Dr. Besigye's candidacy, how many articles had Dr. Muniini written about the situation in Acholi? When did he finally realize that there was an Acholi or Nothern problem? These questions are important because they go to his own credibility or lack thereof. And by the way, was the Acholi tragedy ever deliberated on during the banyakigezi conference? And is Dr. Muniini not one of those advocating for war to overthrow the movementregime? What does he expect to happen once that war is underway? How can Dr. Muniini write so passionately about the acholi trgaedy, and it is a tragedy yet on the other hand he agitatingfor war. He acctually alerted us here to expectvita mallum. Time has come to tell Ugandans the truth: to stop playing with our people's (peasant's lives). On of the greatest mistake Ugandans made is to shy away and let people have it both ways. See what has happened folks. No more double speak. As they say "abatallinamanyo mukama baawa enyamma (sp) loosely translated God gives meat to those without firm teeth. The message behind this saying is clear: just look at the people given the power to preach through their columns. Dr. Munnini (for The Monitor) and Mr. Opio-Oloya (For New Vision) and both writing from Canada. What have they done withtheir columns? Tell Ugandans about pettiness and personal stories. And let the truth be said, both have been pro-movement until very recently. We need to know how many articles Dr. Muniini in particular has written about the tragedy in Acholi prior to the last presidential election. We are waiting. It will be a pleasant surprise if Dr. Muniini can produce 5 pieceson the tragedyin Acholi. As they say again "owebango bwotomuwemukiira tewebbiikka" (sp). Loosely translated, if you share a bed with someone with a hump, you must be blunt with him or else you will not cover yourself. WBK The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
ugnet_: OUR SON WAS CASUALTY OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS
U.S. parents say son in Iraq was casualty of chemical weaponsBy Charles LaurenceLONDON SUNDAY TELEGRAPH The parents of an American soldier who died in Iraq after contracting a mysterious pneumonialike illness that ravaged his major organs are convinced that their son stumbled across deadly chemical weapons while clearing rubble from one of Saddam Hussein's palaces. Spc. Josh Neusche, 20, who had been conducting cleanup operations in Baghdad, died July 12 after being transferred from his base at the airport to a U.S. military hospital in Germany. Army specialists are analyzing tissue samples from his liver, kidneys and lungs to determine the cause of death. Two U.S. soldiers serving in Iraq have died after their major organs failed. Seven others have reported similarly serious symptoms, although overall about 100 cases have been diagnosed since March 1. Lt. Gen. James Peake, the Army surgeon general, has sent two doctors and four other disease specialists to Iraq and two more doctors to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, where some of the troops were treated after being flown from Iraq. The teams are retracing the soldiers' steps in hopes of pinpointing the source of infection. Mark and Cindi Neusche of Montreal, Mo., told the Sunday Telegraph that their son had lapsed into unconsciousness less than an hour after writing a letter to them in his tent. He had begun to complain of a sore throat and difficulty in breathing, and had been making his way to the field dressing station at the camp when he came across a medic, muttered a few words and collapsed at his feet. The Army believes Spc. Neusche had been suffering from pneumonia. Mr. Neusche, 40, an electrician, said: "I honestly feel that he must have got into some sort of chemical weapon or something. For Josh to fall into a coma in just a few hours, it has to be something like that. He was a strong boy and he knew how to look after himself. This could not have been a natural thing. We have been told that his lungs and kidneys collapsed, and he had toxins eating at his muscle structure." Mrs. Neusche, 43, added: "I still want to know what my son died of. But we know that he had been on a hauling mission for 20 hours, and he told us in a letter that he had been clearing rubble from one of Saddam Hussein's palaces. I am convinced that he stumbled across something deadly from a chemical weapon that had been buried in that palace." Spc. Neusche, who was serving with the 203rd Engineer Battalion in Baghdad, was buried with full military honors in Montreal on July 22 after his body was returned from Germany. After the funeral, Rep. Ike Skelton, Missouri Democrat, said: "The Army has confirmed that three or four of the soldiers in Josh's unit are among those who got sick. They are investigating everything it could possibly be. I'm confident that we will get some answers." Military officials said there was no evidence that the cases, which are spread among troops deployed across Iraq, were caused by exposure to chemical or biological weapons, or environmental toxins. "It is pneumonia. The question is what is the cause," said Lyn Kukral, spokesman for Gen. Peake and the Army Medical Command. "The epidemiological teams will look and follow the facts wherever they lead," she said. "You've got a healthy population and a young population, and you have two soldiers who have died. And that's a concern." Fifteen of the 100 soldiers were ill enough to require ventilator support. According to the Army, these severe cases have been spaced out fairly evenly, which doesn't suggest a single-source epidemic. Three occurred in March, three in April, two in May, three in June and four in July. Mrs. Neusche said receiving the flag at her son's funeral was an honor. The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
ugnet_: Re: [Ugandacom] COMPLETLY AND ALSO AND THROUGHOUGHT, Me tell you!!!
Pinytek Yes these are results of Museveni's last visit to Washington. Things are not well in the Movement camp. But we will do what we have done for years, we will wait and passionately as we watch this Movement fracas tumble. Em The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie" - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 8:17 PM Subject: Re: [Ugandacom] COMPLETLY AND ALSO AND THROUGHOUGHT, Me tell you!!! Edward,We know that Museveni very badly wanted the money from the Millenium Challenge Account that he beggingly invited himself to Washington, only to be received with lectures on democracy and the DRC. Save for a diplomatic hand shake over AIDS, the 'new breed of African leader' is fast losing his gloss. Kiyonga's tears reflect that of his boss!Pinytek Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
ugnet_: TWO AMERICANS KILLED IN BAGHDAD
Two US Soldiers Killed In Baghdad Shootout8-7-3 BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two U.S. soldiers were killed and one was wounded, along with an Iraqi interpreter, in a gunbattle in Baghdad, the U.S. military said on Thursday. It said the soldiers of the 1st Armored Division had been involved in a small-arms firefight in the capital's al-Rashid district at about 11 p.m. local time (3 p.m. EDT) on Wednesday. There was no word on any casualties among the attackers. It was the latest of a series of ambushes and bomb attacks on occupying forces that has killed 55 American troops since Washington declared major combat over on May 1. The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
ugnet_: BRING US HOME TODAY
'Bring Us Home' - GIs Flood US With War-Weary EmailThe Observer - UK8-10-3 An unprecedented internet campaign waged on the frontline and in the US is exposing the real risks for troops in Iraq. Paul Harris and Jonathan Franklin report on rising fears that the conflict is now a desert Vietnam... Susan Schuman is angry. Her GI son is serving in the Iraqi town of Samarra, at the heart of the 'Sunni triangle', where American troops are killed with grim regularity. Breaking the traditional silence of military families during time of war, Schuman knows what she wants - and who she blames for the danger to her son, Justin. 'I want them to bring our troops home. I am appalled at Bush's policies. He has got us into a terrible mess,' she said. Schuman may just be the tip of an iceberg. She lives in Shelburne Falls, a small town in Massachusetts, and says all her neighbours support her view. 'I don't know anyone around here who disagrees with me,' she said. Schuman's views are part of a growing unease back home at the rising casualty rate in Iraq, a concern coupled with deep anger at President George W. Bush's plans to cut army benefits for many soldiers. Criticism is also coming directly from soldiers risking their lives under the guns of Saddam Hussein's fighters, and they are using a weapon not available to troops in previous wars: the internet. Through emails and chatrooms a picture is emerging of day-to-day gripes, coupled with ferocious criticism of the way the war has been handled. They paint a vivid picture of US army life that is a world away from the sanitised official version. In a message posted on a website last week, one soldier was brutally frank. 'Somewhere down the line, we became an occupation force in [Iraqi] eyes. We don't feel like heroes any more,' said Private Isaac Kindblade of the 671st Engineer Company. Kindblade said morale was poor, and he attacked the leadership back home. 'The rules of engagement are crippling. We are outnumbered. We are exhausted. We are in over our heads. The President says, "Bring 'em on." The generals say we don't need more troops. Well, they're not over here,' he wrote. One of the main outlets for the soldiers' complaints has been a website run by outspoken former soldier David Hackworth, who was the army's youngest colonel in the Vietnam war and one of its most decorated warriors. He receives almost 500 emails a day, many of them from soldiers serving in Iraq. They have sounded off about everything from bad treatment at the hands of their officers to fears that their equipment is faulty. The army-issue gas mask 'leaks under the chin. This same mask was used during Desert Storm, which accounts for part of the health problems of the vets who fought there. My unit has again deployed to the Gulf with this loser,' ranted one army doctor. Some veterans have begun to form organisations to campaign to bring the soldiers home and highlight their difficult conditions. Erik Gustafson, a veteran of the 1991 Gulf war, has founded Veterans For Common Sense. 'There is an anger boiling under the surface now, and I, as a veteran, have a duty to speak because I am no longer subject to military discipline,' he said. A recent email from Iraq passed to Gustafson, signed by 'the Soldiers of the 2nd Brigade of the 3rd Infantry Division', said simply: 'Our men and women deserve to see their loved ones again and deserve to come home. Thank you for your attention.' Another source of anger is government plans to reverse recent increases in 'imminent danger' pay and a family separation allowance. These moves have provoked several furious editorials in the Army Times, the normally conservative military newspaper. The paper said the planned cuts made 'the Bush administration seem mean-spirited and hypocritical'. Tobias Naegele, its editor-in-chief, said his senior staff agonised over the decision to attack the government, but the response to the editorials from ordinary soldiers was overwhelmingly positive. A further critical editorial is planned for this week. 'We don't think lightly of criticising our Commander-in-Chief,' Naegele said 'The army has had a rough couple of years with this administration.'
ugnet_: INTERVIEW WITH TWAGIRAMUNGU
This is our programme, the candidates' platform, which gives anopportunityto presidential candidates to address Rwandans. This evening, our guest isFaustin Twagiramungu. Welcome to our programme. Willy Rukundo has fewquestionsfor you. (Reporter) Welcome Mr Twagiramungu as Mr Jules has just told you. Beforeaddressing Rwandans, can you please introduce yourself. (Twagiramungu) I am a Rwandan. I was born in 1945 in Kiyamba, GashongaDistrict, Cyangugu Province. I am married and I have four children (Passageomitted) I studied business administration in Canada. I also studied politicalsciencein Montreal and obtained a masters degree in economics (Passage omitted) I believe that we should support the unity policy. Rwandans should changeandbecome new beings. The issues which divided us before independence (Tutsisbeingviewed as lords and Hutus as servants) no longer exist. This is because there is a new generation of Rwandans who just want to dobusiness, to farm and study. There are no longer Rwandans who want to be joyriders. This can be achieved if there is unity and peace. There can't be anylasting unity without peace. (Passage omitted) (Reporter) There are issues of Gacaca (traditional) courts and prisonerswhowere released so that they can appear before the court from outside jail andwithout suffering in jail. What would you do in addition to what has alreadybeen done? Releasing people for acknowledge their "crimes not good enough" (Twagiramungu) I am not sure if we understand the issue of Gacaca in thesameway. Gacaca is a good tradition but I think that some things should berectified. The release of prisoners without files is commendable. However, releasingpeople just because they acknowledged their crimes is not good enough. Theyshould also ask for forgiveness. (Passage omitted) If you asked the common Rwandan, he would tell you that (ruling RwandanPatriotic Front) RPF members occupy government posts from the office of thepresident to the government, the provinces, districts and sectors. That is true. Let's say the truth because without it there will never bedemocracy in this country. (Passage omitted) Poverty reduction (Reporter) The World Bank and UN agencies say 65 per cent of Rwandanslivebelow poverty line, they earn less than one dollar a day. As a presidentialcandidate what is your plan to reduce this percentage? (Twagiramungu) I found in the country a policy geared towardsstrengtheningthe economy but which is excessively capitalistic. I do not agree with that.Rwandans should accept capitalism but we should make a path for that. Ourpolicywould aim at the majority Rwandans, in the rural areas. They should beassistedto get cooperatives, acquire loans, they should farm and harvest and getmarketsfor their produce. (Passage omitted) (If elected) I would tell the Central Bank or set up a fund aimed atproviding loans to citizens who need them. (Sentence as received) We shouldnotlie to the people, saying that we are studying (loan request) files. Weshouldfind ways to help the poor find something to do. The fund should providethemwith collateral and give them a long period of repayment. (Passage omitted) I disagree with the state privatization policy, which consists of sellingcompanies to any black or white capitalists who bring money. (Reporter) Mr Twagiramungu do you mean that if you became head of stateon 26August after the elections you would nationalize companies, which wereprivatized? (Twagiramungu) That is not what I said because I will respect existinginstitutions. This can create problems. One cannot do away with everythingonefinds in place. However, I would put in place good policies for the futureaimedat creating a Rwandan capitalist. For example if three Rwandans came together so as to buy for instance asavings bank, someone could say: you people you don't have money to buy it. On my part, I would rather set up a fund aimed at providing them withcredit,which can be repaid slowly. (Passage omitted) Rwandans are poor. A person brings farm produce to Kigali unaware of theexistence of taxes, and is asked to pay taxes equivalent to what he made outofthe produce. I believe we should leave the informal sector alone. We shouldinstead keep an eye on illegal trade, those people who bring truckloads butdonot pay taxes (Passage omitted) Free primary education Some say there should be free primary education and I agree with thembecauseRwandans are poor. (Passage omitted) We suffered during the period of balancing (imposition of ethnic quotasinschools)when a child who scored 80 per cent was expelled from school onpretextthat his ethnic quota of 10 per cent had been reached and he was replacedwithanother student with only 52 per cent (Passage omitted) War with DRCongo "should not have taken place" (Reporter) Mr Twagiramungu, I would like to talk about foreign policytowardsour neighbours and other distant countries. What is your
ugnet_: HALLIBURTON EMPLOYEE KILLED IN IRAQ
Halliburton Employee Killed In IraqFirst US Government Contractor Killed In IraqBy Joshua Chaffin in Washington The Financial Times8-5-3 An employee of Halliburton, the Houston-based oilfield service company, became the first US government contractor to be killed in Iraq on Tuesday when the truck he was riding in struck an anti-tank mine north of Tikrit. The death highlighted the continued instability of Iraq and the dangers it poses for the civilian contractors the US military is relying on to rebuild the country and support its own operations. Kellogg Brown Root, a Halliburton division, said the employee was on a routine mail run between central and northern Iraq when the truck was attacked. The employee, whose name was withheld, was treated at the scene by army medics then transported to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Two other employees in the convoy were not injured, KBR said. It was unclear on Tuesday whether the assailants intentionally targeted private contractors, or if the attack was random. "It confirms what we have thought for a long time - even though the guerrilla resistance has primarily targeted US military convoys, it also poses a significant risk for civilian contractors," said Josh Mandel, a senior Middle East analyst at Control Risks Group, a business risk consultancy that recently opened an office in Baghdad. Companies around the world looked to the reconstruction of Iraq as an historic business opportunity potentially worth tens of billions of dollars. But the excitement has faded amid concerns about the security situation on the ground. More than 50 US soldiers have been killed since President George W. Bush declared the end of major combat operations in May. Control Risks Group and other security consultancies have warned companies about a range of potential dangers - from the country's lawless roads to criminal gangs and guerrilla insurgents. A Sri Lankan man working for the Red Cross was killed in Iraq last month when his car was fired on by attackers near Hilla. Halliburton, which was headed from 1995 to 2000 by US vice-president Dick Cheney, is one of the largest private contractors in Iraq. The company does everything from erecting forward bases to delivering soldiers' mail under an open-ended support contract known as Logcap III, awarded by the army. Halliburton also won a separate Pentagon contract to perform emergency repairs to the country's oil infrastructure. The Defense Department has increasingly relied on the private sector for such tasks because it believes it can complete them at lower cost while allowing the military to focus on core operations. Halliburton said on Tuesday the safety of employees was a top priority, but declined to discuss specific security arrangements in Iraq. The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
ugnet_: Matovu! Eddy Mutesa (RIP) was an Alcoholic!
Kasangwawo On all accusations made, on all love Buganda has to her Kingdom, would Obote poison Muteesa and the person who knew about it decide to be anonymous except to you? Let us remember that what we are discussing today is both of great importance to a whole mass of people and the History of Uganda as a nation. So I would encourage every one to stick on the facts, for there are those who are going to read these facts and take them for whole truth and help you God. That is why I stated before that the cause of death of Mutesa was not by poison from Obote. Can I back that claim? Yes the Post Mortem made in London and in a nation which was against Obote is available. I hope you can produce the evidence backing that Some one, Secondly I stated that the funds which were sent to Mutesa and his family even after his death all way through to Amin, can be backed up by records in Bank of Uganda, which is in Uganda today. So let us not take these things that likely, for they are of great Historical importance. Em The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie - Original Message - From: jonah kasangwawo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 4:05 PM Subject: Re: ugnet_: Matovu! Eddy Mutesa (RIP) was an Alcoholic! Bwambuga, we also know that someone (identity known) put poison in Sir Freddie's drink, which led to his eventual death. This evidence comes from someone who spent the last few years of the King's life looking after him and was therefore very close to him. I therefore fail to see why you think that your allegations are stronger than what you call Matovu's false accusations. On the other hand, you might be confusing your information with that about a known alcoholic in Lusaka. Kasangwawo From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ugnet_: Matovu! Eddy Mutesa (RIP) was an Alcoholic! Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2003 23:19:36 -0400 Matovu, We know that Kabaka Fred Mutesa (RIP) was a seroius alcoholic case. And he died from Alcohol Poisoning. My evidence comes from a cery good friend of mine, but he was sharing a girl friend with the Late Kabaka while he was still in power as President. This friend is a typical Muganda and big time supporter of the royalty. He says it was a well known fact among the late Kabaka's confidants that his alcohol would sooner rather than later kill him. And kill him it did. This should put to rest Matovu's false accusations of Obote. This is like the other quotation about a dead Muganda, Turns out those words were actually uttered by a typical Muganda, but hell wishers just pushed it to Obote to suit their ill intentioned politiking and subjecting Ugandans to false history. Bwambuga. Mulindwa Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mwaami Kasangwawo I do not think that any body in a right mind needs a proof of Amin's brutality, and I do not think that there is any body arguing about it, what is bothering people is the way we want to attack this problem of a Ugandan president whose family wants to take home and the operative word home not to Kololo, remember this man has a land he is not a beggar for land to be buried on, Amin is not like Kiseka who NRM had to borrow land to burry him officially, he is not like Lule who ended up in Kololo where any government will dig him up, trust me, for better use of that real estate. Amin wants to go to Koboko and rest. Whether alive or dead. Should have I gone into this discussion? And the answer is no, but I was very disturbed to see how the Museveni virus has affected Ugandans. We are not responsible for any or all of our actions. Because Dr. Kigongo posted on Ugandanet that Amin was a bad leader so he should be buried in Saudi Arabia. Can he tell us whether Saudi Arabian dissidents are buried in Uganda? Our nation needs prayers, for I expected better from him but hey he is a Doctor. Em The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie - Original Message - From: jonah kasangwawo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 4:14 PM Subject: Re: ugnet_: I LOVE AMIN SAYS NASUR For all apologists for the killers of Ugandans, I am posting below a letter which is representative of thousands of similar cases. The fact that these killers have not yet been taken to court does not relieve them of the responsibility for the murder of thousands of Ugandans. There are lots of reasons why people have not managed to take these killers to court - lack of resources, time, et cetera. As I said before, the following case represents thousands
ugnet_: WE HAVE LOST AN AMERICAN SOLDIER
American Soldier Killed In Iraq Bomb AttackBy Andrew Marshall8-11-3 BAGHDAD (Reuters) -- An American soldier was killed and two others wounded in a bomb attack in the central Iraqi town of Baquba, the U.S. military said Monday, as tensions simmered in the British-run southern city of Basra. The attack on the 4th Infantry Division in the restive town of Baquba, which lies in the "Sunni triangle" area northeast of Baghdad, occurred at around 10 p.m. (2 p.m. EDT) Sunday. The death brings to 56 the number of U.S. soldiers killed in hostile action in Iraq since President Bush declared major combat over on May 1. In Iraq's second city Basra, the scene of violent protests at the weekend, scores of unemployed men staged a noisy demonstration Monday morning. A foreign security guard and two Iraqis were killed over the weekend in the southern Shi'ite city after smuggling, sabotage and breakdowns of decrepit equipment caused chronic power and fuel shortages, leaving residents at the mercy of searing summer temperatures and stifling humidity. The city was calmer Monday morning. Saturday and Sunday, residents barricaded roads with burning tires and attacked vehicles with stones and chunks of concrete. British and Czech troops in the city fired warning shots, and in one incident returned fire at protesters. One Iraqi was killed by gunfire during Sunday's unrest, but it was not clear who fired the shots. Another Iraqi was crushed to death under the wheels of a truck. A Nepalese Gurkha working as a private security guard was killed by gunmen as he drove through the city delivering mail for the United Nations. Officials from the U.S.-led administration for Iraq initially described the killing as terrorism but said Monday it could have been a bungled robbery or carjacking. The weekend violence was some of the worst in Iraq since Saddam was toppled on April 9 and occurred in a city at the heart of the mostly Shi'ite Muslim south, which has been relatively peaceful in the wake of his fall. British troops have responsibility for securing Basra and surrounding areas. Monday, the British military presence on the streets of Basra was less overt and the city was quieter. A group of harbor workers, who said they had been sacked in the final months of Saddam Hussein's rule, gathered outside the Iraq administration headquarters demanding jobs and back-pay. "Everyone here has at least 10 years' service and what they are doing to us now is persecution," said one of the protesters, Nazim Abdul-Hussein Thahir. "They got rid of our tyrant, and thank God for that. But if they play with our salaries they are playing with our food and water." BREAKDOWNS AND SABOTAGE Officials in Iraq's U.S.-led administration say the frequent power cuts are due to sabotage of cables linking Basra to the national grid and equipment breakdowns at ramshackle power stations. They say sabotage of pipelines and rampant oil smuggling have led to the shortage of fuel. Highlighting Basra's problems, the country's main southern oil refinery in the city stopped processing completely Sunday night due to a power failure, the general manager of the southern refineries company said Monday. "It's zero. We don't have any electricity since yesterday night," Thair Ibrahim said. "The generators are not working... We are planning to install a new turbine, but this could take until the end of September." The violence in Basra came as a surprise as most unrest and attacks in recent months have been concentrated in the deposed president's Sunni heartlands in central Iraq where U.S. forces are stationed. The attack on U.S. troops in Baquba late Sunday followed a grenade attack on the hospital in the city late last month, killing three soldiers. In Baghdad, two Iraqis were slightly wounded overnight when grenades were hurled at two trucks driving near the British embassy, the U.S. military said. "The attack was in the vicinity of the British embassy but it did not target in any way the embassy," a spokesman said. Thursday, a truck bomb outside the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad killed at least 17 people. The top
ugnet_: US KILL TWO IRAQI POLICEMEN
US Troops Kill Two Iraqi Policemen 8-11-3 (AFP) -- US soldiers in Baghdad on Saturday shot dead an Iraqi policeman they mistook for an attacker, killed another as he tried to surrender to them and beat a third, a survivor of the incident said. The three Iraqi officers were firing from their unmarked car at a suspect vehicle they were chasing when the Americans opened fire on them in a western suburb of the capital, Sergeant Hamza Atiya Muhsen, who said he was driving the car, told AFP. Lieutenant Colonel Muayad Farhan, deputy head of Al-Yarmuk police station where the dead officers were based, confirmed that two of his officers had been shot by coalition forces. The US military said it was aware of an incident but unable to provide information. But army spokesman Staff Sergeant JJ Johnson said there had been a case of "blue on blue" on Saturday, a term for an incident where friendly forces fire on one another. As the Al-Yarmuk deputy police chief spoke, two US military police officers came to offer their condolences to him. They asked not to be named but said they believed the two officers had been shot by US troops after being mistaken for attackers. Sergeant Nahi said one of his colleagues was shot as he sat in the back seat of their white Hyundai car, which is the same make and colour as many other Iraqi police vehicles but did not have the blue markings and police numbering. The third officer, who was uniformed, was shot as he got out from the front passenger seat and held his hands in the air, holding his coalition-issued yellow police badge and shouting "police, police", said Nahi. "The second time he said it he was shot. He was hit in the right eye. He was hit by a machine gun that was firing at us right from the start of the incident," said Nahi, who said the incident took place outside a cement factory on the Abu Gharib Road. Nahi, who said he was in civilian clothes but wearing the large police armband and wearing the yellow police badge around his neck, said after the firing had stopped he got out of the car and held his hands up. "Three soldiers surrounded me. I got down on my knees, hands in the air, holding my badge. One of them kicked me in the back and I fell to the ground. Another one kicked me twice in the face. They put their boots on my head and pressed it into the ground. "I kept saying 'police, police'; I don't speak English but it's the same word in Arabic," said Nahi, who said the beating lasted several minutes. Nahi showed AFP cuts to his nose and head, a black eye, and took off his shirt to display bruises over much of his back and on his chest. A car the Al-Yarmuk deputy police chief said was the one involved in the incident was in the yard of the police station. There were dark stains on the back seat and the vehicle had six bullet holes on the passenger side, 10 bullet holes in the front window, which had remained intact, one on the driver's side and one in the roof. The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
ugnet_: WORLD DOESN'T NEED GM CROPS TO SOLVE HUNGER
World Doesn't Need GM Crops To Solve HungerBy Andrew SimmsThe Guardian - UK8-5-3 The sound of one hand clapping should greet the behaviour of "rational" scientists, businessmen and politicians in the debate on the future of genetically modified food. One member of the government's review panel resigned because of the its "naive" and unbalanced approach. Another formally complained that he was threatened with the loss of research funding if he was critical of GM technology. In the most staggering example of a conflict of interest in recent times, a Monsanto employee was reportedly commissioned to write the first draft of the panel's report concerning GM safety issues. Icing on this less than rational cake was added by David King, chairman of the panel and chief government scientific adviser, who used the experience of the US to reassure the public. GM food has been eaten there since around 1996 with no obvious adverse effects. But absence of evidence of harm is not evidence of the absence of harm. What emerges is an automatic cultural bias in the scientific community towards invasive, hi-tech solutions to complex social, environmental and economic problems. Regardless of whether or not they are best - or even appropriate. Because why, after all, do we need GM crops? Even if the world was short of food, which it is not, available evidence suggests that using what is called, "sustainable agriculture" - a mixture of environmental and pro-poor approaches to growing food - brings massively higher increases in overall productivity than anything achieved through genetic modification. Consumers and supermarkets do not want them. Only a hard core of biotech businesses, researchers and their political allies are bothered. Floundering for winning arguments, they've settled on a kind of moral blackmail, the modern equivalent of patriotism being the last resort of the scoundrel. We should commercially introduce GM crops, they say, because we need to feed the poor. When this argument was first used aggressively by Monsanto in the late 1990s, the poor had other ideas. African delegates from Ethiopia to Burundi, Senegal and Mozambique, at special negotiations of the UN food and agriculture organisation "strongly" objected that "the image of the poor and hungry from our countries is being used by giant multinational corporations to push a technology that is neither safe, environmentally friendly, nor economically beneficial to us". They were convinced that the "feed the world" argument was a huge (genetically modified) red herring. Since then, the GM lobbyists just shout louder. George Bush accused the European Union of starving hungry people because of its caution over GM crops. Why are the new scoundrels so wrong? The arguments need repetition. People go hungry because they're either poor, powerless, both, or have no land to grow food on. GM crops don't change this. Britain's experience has been enormously problematic. The poor, majority world has no chance to regulate, monitor or segregate GM crops. Almost everything scientists are trying to achieve by genetically modifying crops can be achieved in other less risky ways. Whether the problem is pest or weed control, drought tolerance, yield or nutrition, there are countless, though poorly supported, farming methods that can be used before needing to open pandora's box of genetic tricks. GM advocates seem only to have discovered the cause of poverty eradication now that they have something to sell. Increasingly restrictive global intellectual property laws, which are a precondition for commercial GM crop technology, further weaken the bargaining power of poor and hungry. They create a massive market distortion in the global food system in favour of multinational companies that already enjoy near-monopoly positions. Most worrying, according to aid agencies, is that the GM lobby is almost entirely ignorant about how and why people actually go hungry, and how to change it. Nature has no advertising budget. Advocates of sustainable agriculture also tend to be poor and marginalised. The biotech firms, on the other hand, have armies of PR and sales people, researchers, lawyers and lobbyists. They fear that there should
ugnet_: A SITE YOU MUST VISIT
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ugnet_: Matovu! Eddy Mutesa (RIP) was an Alcoholic!
Kasangwawo Cut the crap if you think that I am doing research for you then as always you are on the wrong foot. You see I left the days of posting what the likes of you want to hear. And by the way let me add as well that the UPC' government's support to Muteesa did not stop on UPC government but even under Iddi Amin , moneys continued to flow to the family in London. Although some of the recipients decided not to use it better than becoming pipe fitters. On the proof of that, do not wait on me, go to Bank of Uganda where Obote made the original instructions, the records are public to today. So if you as a Muganda was thinking that your King was living from checks made from your grand father, think again. The state decided to maintain him with dignity in his exile life. The rest of the decisions on his life were made by him self and him self alone. And if you have any way to show us how Mutesa survived in London please by all means post it. Let us move from this crap of Buganda loves the Kingdom. Good day Em The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie - Original Message - From: jonah kasangwawo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 4:32 PM Subject: Re: ugnet_: Matovu! Eddy Mutesa (RIP) was an Alcoholic! Mulindwa, I would hope that you have evidence about your allegation that the UPC regime maintained the late Sir Freddie Muteesa II in exile. In addition to the post-mortem report, I would also like to take a look at it. Kasangwawo From: Mulindwa Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ugnet_: Matovu! Eddy Mutesa (RIP) was an Alcoholic! Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 03:39:01 -0400 Bwambuga And I will add to those few notes another point just for clarification. Sir Edward Mutesa was in exile and we all know what happens in exile. The first point to hit home is poverty. However the current UPC government at the time, saw it fit to maintain the exiled King financially. Uganda Government continuously sent Mutesa funds to maintain him self in London, funds he him self decided to use to cut down on stress by drinking and throwing continuous parties. Untill when he drunk him self out on his birth day party. That is why it is very nonsensical for Lutimba Matovu to state that Mutesa was poisoned by Obote, if Obote wanted Mutesa to die in exile he would have not instructed Bank of Uganda to maintain the exiled King financially. Oh good morning, by the way. Em The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 11:19 PM Subject: ugnet_: Matovu! Eddy Mutesa (RIP) was an Alcoholic! Matovu, We know that Kabaka Fred Mutesa (RIP) was a seroius alcoholic case. And he died from Alcohol Poisoning. My evidence comes from a cery good friend of mine, but he was sharing a girl friend with the Late Kabaka while he was still in power as President. This friend is a typical Muganda and big time supporter of the royalty. He says it was a well known fact among the late Kabaka's confidants that his alcohol would sooner rather than later kill him. And kill him it did. This should put to rest Matovu's false accusations of Obote. This is like the other quotation about a dead Muganda, Turns out those words were actually uttered by a typical Muganda, but hell wishers just pushed it to Obote to suit their ill intentioned politiking and subjecting Ugandans to false history. Bwambuga. Mulindwa Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mwaami Kasangwawo I do not think that any body in a right mind needs a proof of Amin's brutality, and I do not think that there is any body arguing about it, what is bothering people is the way we want to attack this problem of a Ugandan president whose family wants to take home and the operative word home not to Kololo, remember this man has a land he is not a beggar for land to be buried on, Amin is not like Kiseka who NRM had to borrow land to burry him officially, he is not like Lule who ended up in Kololo where any government will dig him up, trust me, for better use of that real estate. Amin wants to go to Koboko and rest. Whether alive or dead. Should have I gone into this discussion? And the answer is no, but I was very disturbed to see how the Museveni virus has affected Ugandans. We are not responsible for any or all of our actions. Because Dr. Kigongo posted on Ugandanet that Amin was a bad leader so he should be buried in Saudi Arabia. Can he tell us whether Saudi Arabian dissidents
ugnet_: THEY ARE UNDER ATTACK ACROSS IRAQ
US And British Forces Under Fire Across Iraq8-9-3 BAGHDAD (IslamOnline.net News Agencies) -- Few hours after U.S. President George Bush boasted "progress" achieved in Iraq, Iraqi resistance fighters attacked U.S. and British occupation forces across Iraq. In Baghdad, two American soldiers were wounded in a roadside bomb attack on their armored Humvee vehicle, said Maj. Todd Mercer of the 82nd Airborne Division. Four other U.S. soldiers were lightly injured in a mortar attack on a U.S. base in ousted president Saddam Hussein's main palace in his hometown of Tikrit, a military officer said Saturday, August 9. "It was a 60 millimeter mortar fired at a low trajectory into the base," said Colonel James Hickey, commander of the Fourth Infantry Division's first brigade, based in Tikrit. The four soldiers returned to duty after their injuries had been treated, Agence France-Presse (AFP) quoted Hickey as saying. Tikrit has been ground zero in the hunt for Saddam, who has a 25-million-dollar price on his head. Also, a U.S. military base came under fire on the outskirts of Fallujah, a bastion of anti-U.S. sentiment 50 kilometers west of Baghdad, witnesses told Agence France-Presse (AFP) Saturday, August 9. The base came under attack around 10:15 pm (1815 GMT) Friday, when four blasts were heard and smoke was seen rising from the grounds. The compound, on the outskirts of town, comes under regular late-night mortar attack, as do other bases in the western province of Al-Anbar, which, for many, has come to symbolize Iraqi resistance to the U.S. occupation. Meanwhile, the U.S. troops arrested before dawn Saturday a former Saddam Hussein-era security chief, General Shaban Mohammed Asmir, his brother told AFP. "They sealed off the district at 5:30 am (0130 GMT) with eight Humvees and two armored vehicles as well as two helicopters flying over the sector," said former general Jamal Mohammed Asmir Mohammed. The occupation soldiers searched the home and "my brother was led out without any resistance," he added. The U.S. military had no immediate comment on either event. Fallujah has been generally quiet since U.S. troops withdrew from the center of the town in mid-July and handed over policing to Iraqis. However, three U.S. soldiers, three Iraqi police and a child were wounded Tuesday in a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) attack on a police station. Following that attack, some 200 people gathered near the building to stage a protest, chanting: "With our blood and with our soul, we will defend you, Saddam!" In another development, clashes broke out between British troops and Iraqis Saturday after a grenade was thrown at a British military truck in the southern port city of Basra, witnesses said. The British truck came under attack at 9:15 am (0515 GMT) in front of a gas station where a man hurled a grenade and the vehicle was set on fire, said Ali Hussein, a taxi driver who had been filling up his car with fuel at the time of the attack. Four British armored vehicles and three jeeps came to seal off the area, while a crowd lobbed rocks at them. The soldiers fired shots in the air to ward them off and then started to shoot off rubber bullets, wounding at least four Iraqis, including a child, witnesses said. The crowd grew to more than 2,000 and shouted in anger over the gasoline shortage in the city, they added. The British military said it was not aware of any grenade attacks, but conceded there were protests around the city Saturday as tempers rose over fuel shortages and lack of electricity in the sweltering port. Basra has until recently been free from anti-occupation attacks seen to the north around Baghdad. But this month, British troops have come under increasing attack. Four Iraqis were wounded Wednesday, August 6, in an explosives attack targeting a British convoy near Basra. Progress However, Bush Friday lauded what he described as successes in Iraq, despite the 56 U.S. troops who have died in the 100 days since he declared the fighting all
ugnet_: MEN CHOSE SLEEP OVER SEX
Men chose sleep over sex The favoured optionWhen it comes to sex men are better on theory than they are in practice. A survey has confirmed the long-held belief that men spend much of their time day-dreaming about sex. But the fast pace of modern life leaves them too tired for the real thing. In fact, given the chance of an extra hour in bed, most working men say they would rather spend it asleep than having sex. When people are completely shattered and stressed they don't feel very sexy Christine Northam The survey, for vitamins company Berocca, found that more than six out of ten men say that work is the most demanding part of their life. And it seems to take a heavy toll. More than half said they were simply too tired for a social life, or to have sex when they got home after a busy day. Thinking of sex However, most men were not too tired or stressed at work to fantasise about sex - even at inappropriate times. One in five men admitted they thought about sex within a minute of the start of a business meeting. Christine Northam, a counsellor for the charity Relate, said the survey was a good sign that people were starting to consider the impact of long working hours on emotional health. "Lots of people are suffering from stress as the result of working long hours, and the lack of security in employment. "When people are completely shattered and stressed they don't feel very sexy. "But sex is a very important part of a loving, intimate relationship. "If we value stable relationships as a foundation of society, then society needs to change. We need to get away from the culture of working too long and hard, being too materialistic and driven by money." The survey also found that more than three-quarters of men cannot stay alert throughout the working day - in fact the average man said he was only sharp for around three hours. This may be in part due to a poor diet. Seven out of ten of the 650 men who took part in the survey admitted they did not eat properly. The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
ugnet_: ''We can't have a Hutu president'' - C. Nayinzira
Ethnicity, the root of Rwanda's troubles, is taboo issue in first election ASSOCIATED PRESS GITARAMA, Rwanda, Aug. 5 The limp of a crippled old man, the scars on a young woman's face the awful reminders are everywhere as Rwanda struggles to move away from its genocidal past by holding its first real presidential election. The Aug. 25 vote comes nine years after a government of extremists from the Hutu majority orchestrated the slaughter of more than a half million people, most of them from the Tutsi minority. Tutsis now run the country and they have tailored the campaign to suppress appeals to ethnicity a policy they say is necessary to keep old hatreds in check and to foster a sense of unity. But they haven't managed to bury the issue altogether. The leading opposition candidate is a Hutu who charges that the rhetoric of unity is the government's way of keeping his people out of power. The memories of what came before, during and after the genocide remain fresh in this Maryland-sized land of terraced hillsides and verdant old volcanoes, where fears still resonate and old divides remain deep.The election is ''an experiment to help us build the confidence to live together,'' says Patrick Mazimhaka, an adviser to President Paul Kagame ''So we have put in place a measured democracy.'' Measured it is. Presidential aspirants were given less than two months to organize their campaigns. The three opposition candidates two Hutus and one Tutsi complain they get little airtime on state-owned radio and television and hostile coverage in the largely pro-government newspapers.Still, after a long history of Belgian colonial rule followed by periodic slaughters of Tutsis by Hutu extremists that culminated in the genocide of 1994, Rwanda's 8 million people are joining a growing list of African nations that are experimenting with democracy.It's clear that Hutus are a big majority, though nobody knows just how big because the government hasn't done a count in decades. So the fact that Kagame, a Tutsi, is likely to win seems to suggest ethnicity is less of an electoral factor than might be expected. One reason is an abiding respect for authority that characterizes Rwandan society, and Kagame commands a lot of respect. The former military officer is regarded as stern and incorruptible. He is also the only politician in Rwanda with the network and staff to mount a national election campaign. Challengers have to take care not to run afoul of the vaguely outlined no-ethnicity rule.But that hasn't stopped some Hutu presidential aspirants from trying to appeal to Hutu fears that continued Tutsi rule means they will be sidelined indefinitely. The new constitution says political parties must ''reflect Rwandan unity.'' Recent statements by Faustin Twagiramungu, the leading opposition candidate, have come ''very close'' to crossing the line into ''speeches that inflame old wounds,'' said Mazimhaka, the presidential adviser.Twagiramungu, a Hutu, was a voice of moderation before the genocide, which he himself narrowly escaped. After Kagame's Rwandan Patriotic Front ousted the extremist Hutu regime in July 1994 and ended the genocide, Twagiramungu became prime minister. He lost the post in August 1995 after a falling out with Kagame and went into exile in Belgium. He returned in June. Rwanda has never had a contested presidential election, and Kagame and his largely Tutsi inner circle have run the country since July 1994, though Hutus do fill some prominent roles. ''Pretending that Hutus and Tutsis don't exist in Rwanda is just a sham,'' Twagiramungu said. ''When you go into (government) ministries ... what you find are Tutsis.''They've slowly loosened the political reins, but retain a firm grip on the army and internal security services, and few people are openly critical of the current setup.The resentments date back decades. Under the Belgians a Tutsi monarchy ruled. After independence in 1962 the Hutus seized power and held it until their genocidal 1994 campaign in which Hutu villagers were incited by extremist Hutu officials and hate propaganda and abetted by militia and the army to butcher their Tutsi neighbors with farm tools, like machetes and hoes. For the Tutsis, who remember life under Hutu rule as one pogrom after another, the last nine years have been a chance to live in Rwanda without fear. They don't want to
Re: ugnet_: Kabaka-President Mutesa (RIP)
Kasangwawo What is in that report is the cause of Mutesa's death. Em The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie - Original Message - From: jonah kasangwawo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 3:29 PM Subject: Re: ugnet_: Kabaka-President Mutesa (RIP) Mulindwa, They say that knowledge is power. I just want to know what is in the post-mortem report. Kasangwawo From: Mulindwa Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ugnet_: Kabaka-President Mutesa (RIP) Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 18:37:20 -0400 Kasangwawo Why? Em The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie - Original Message - From: jonah kasangwawo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 4:21 PM Subject: Re: ugnet_: Re: [Ugandacom] Kabaka-President Mutesa (RIP) Mulindwa, could you please post the entire post-mortem report of Muteesa II as you threatened. Kasangwawo From: Mulindwa Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ugnet_: Re: [Ugandacom] Kabaka-President Mutesa (RIP) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 18:50:10 -0400 Mwaami Matovu I am not going to be involved in name calling, you see I hate loosing the discussion. But I will stand with my original offer, that I do not want to see you again ever, posting any where a lie, like you did that Obote killed Mutesa through poison. As long as you do not state that lie I will accommodate you. If you want to see my very ugly side, lie again. For then you will leave me no option but to post the entire post-mortem report of Muteesa on Ugandanet. For it is the only proof I have that Mutesa died of a very different thing than your dreams. And posting that report on Ugandanet is the very last thing I want to do. But if you ever allege any where, that Obote killed Mutesa by poison, you will leave me no option. So be very aware of the consequences while in your very silly rumblings. I am sending you a direct copy of this posting so that we are both sure, that you did not miss it on Ugandanet. I hope we are on the same page now on. Em The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie - Original Message - From: joseph odwe To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 3:40 PM Subject: Re: [Ugandacom] Kabaka-President Mutesa (RIP) Matovu Not that you derseve even my comment on your silyness but I will bless you with it. By the way English is language that has been claimed by others as their own and unlike you I nkow I am not one of those. Therefore I will let you pride or worry yourself with the mastership of the language while take care of making my point understood. j.O From: Lutimba Matovu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: joseph odwe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Ugandacom] Kabaka-President Mutesa (RIP) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 10:34:15 -0700 (PDT) Odwe, Your poor written English clearly exemplifies your poor and low thinking capacity. I can't waste time engaging people like you. LM --- joseph odwe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks You all know that Lutimbwa Matovu is on the publicaly known movement's pay roll. As such all should have nown by now that the movement as unskilled in politics and norms is it has shown across the board strive on cheep lies,treats, opression of all sorts and their favourite-murder. I wonder why would anyone belief even for a moment that Lutimbwa with his yea sir mentality would be an exception to that. Not now probably not at any time. j.O From: Mulindwa Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Edward Mulindwa [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Ugandacom] Kabaka-President Mutesa (RIP) Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 04:41:34 -0400 Ugandans I had a very hard time to understand why Lutimba Matovu would decide to pedal such very terrible lies, that Obote
ugnet_: Fw: [abujaNig] Admission
From: Mbuk, Mabel To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 3:31 AM Subject: [abujaNig] Admission Can someone give me information on University of South Africaplease? I need to know where it is located and if admissions forPost Graduate studies are still open. Admission process is alsoneeded please. Thanks.***Mabel Tete MbukDistribution DepartmentMichelin (Nigeria) LimitedTrans Amadi Industrial LayoutP. O. Box 527, Port HarcourtRivers State, NigeriaPhone: 084 237555, 237557 Extension 2270/2057Mobile: 080 23244777Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT **Keep Hope Alive!!!* Site of the Week:- http://www.iseehope.org Nigeria arise to rebuild Hope ++Nigerians for Nigeria, rebuilding a Country where No man is oppressed. - ---Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] **Keep Hope Alive!!!*Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
ugnet_: Fw: [Ugandacom] African Images - BBC London Radio
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 4:29 PM Subject: [Ugandacom] African Images - BBC London Radio UPCnetters Friends,I will be part of a discussion tomorrow evening on BBC London Radio from 10pm. The discussion will be centred on portrait of African images and, Africa centred stories. Some of the recent coverages have been around 'juju', 419 (Nigeria) and the so-called asylum seekers (refugees)' export of sexually transmitted diseases - etc.Those who can, tune in 94.9fm.Pinytek To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
ugnet_: RPF divisionism : Judge in its own case
From: Placide Muhigana To: Conflict of interest : no problem for RPF RPF "divisionism" : Partialjudge in its own case Twagiramungu Complains of Harassment of His Supporters Opposition candidate for Rwanda's presidency, Faustin Twagiramungu, has expressed concern over the 25 August poll being free and fair, saying that supporters of incumbent President Paul Kagame were making his supporters "fearful" of openly backing him. He told reporters on Tuesday in the capital, Kigali, that local government officials and Kagame's supporters were harassing his supporters and had detained some of his agents who were on the campaign trail across the country. Twagiramungu, 58, is considered the strongest opponent to Kagame in the country's first presidential poll after the 1994 genocide of 1994. Two other candidates are also contesting the presidency. He said he had received reports that the police had arrested some of his agents "under the guise of fomenting ethnic divisions within the population to win him votes". "Ethnicity is being used as a shield to openly silence, intimidate and harass my supporters," he said. "I don't mind RPF [Rwanda Patriotic Front ] supporters backing their candidate [Kagame] but let them stop harassing my campaign agents." Without giving the number of his supporters who have been detained, Twagiramungu said that his supporters from the southeastern province of Kibuye, the northern province of Ruhengeri and the western provinces of Kibungo and Umutara were the most harassed. Twagiramungu, a moderate Hutu who was prime minister for 13 months in the first government after the 1994 genocide, also said local officials were sabotaging his efforts by denying him a venue to begin his campaign. "Whenever I book a venue, I am told that the RPF has taken the place," he said. "I have decided to redesign my campaign programme, which I will be announcing soon." Only Kagame has held rallies since the campaigning period was declared officially started on Friday. Twagiramungu and the other two candidates are yet to hold any rallies, with some citing lack of resources and campaign venues as the main causes of their delay. Police spokesman Tony Kuramba told IRIN that Twagiramungu's claims were unfounded, and that the police had only questioned some politicians involved in talk or acts of fuelling ethnic divisions between the majority Hutu and minority Tutsi communities. "We have been questioning people who are spreading politics ofethnicity," Kuramba said. "We do not care whether they are Twagiramungu's supporters or not. The laws are quite clear on the issue of fomenting ethic hatred." UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
ugnet_: COMPLETLY AND ALSO AND THROUGHOUGHT, Me tell you!!!
Kiyonga warns Movt saboteurs WATCH OUT! Kiyonga addressing the press yesterday By Okello Jabweli THE Movement Secretariat has declared war on political saboteurs bent on misleading the public and tarnishing the image of the country abroad. The National Political Commissar, Dr.Crispus Kiyonga, yesterday told the media that political indiscipline was hurting Ugandas medium and long-term development objectives. Kiyonga, who was addressing a news conference at Nile Hotel gardens in Kampala, said political indiscipline among leaders was diverting the national focus from real challenges facing the country and frightening potential local and foreign investors. Kiyonga said politicians who globetrot, asking donor countries to deny Uganda aid and trade, should be exposed. When you go to London, you find them there. When you go to Washington, you find they have already been there with a message that Uganda be denied trade opportunities under AGOA (African Growth and Opportunity Act), he said. He said the saboteurs normally issue demands like, Dont allow Uganda to access the Millennium Challenge Account. You, World Bank, dont give your money to Uganda. Kiyonga said such indisciplined leaders were causing unnecessary panic and worry in the population and prompting people to question the sustainability of Ugandas stability. He said political indiscipline was partly responsible for the much-hyped third-term talk. You hear (Paul) Ssemogerere (Democratic Party leader) saying this, (James) Rwanyarare (UPC Presidential Policy Commission chairman) saying that and President Yoweri Museveni this. One of the reasons people are saying Museveni should not go is because they have learnt to trust him and fear the future without him. Kiyonga said the public was beginning to question the credibility of institutions created under the Constitution for good governance. He said the recent public condemnation of MPs over their pension scheme should be looked at in this light. He said other forms of political indiscipline include leaders who tell lies to mislead the population. He cited the current controversy over the legality of the Movement, adding that politicians alarming the public that the Movement system ceased to exist are aware the system is entrenched in the Constitution and that no court had ever annulled the Movement Act. He backed justice minister Janat Mukwayas contention that the country was not facing a constitutional crisis. He also defended the continued remuneration of Movement directors and staff as perfectly legal. He said the expiry of the terms of Movement political leaders does not affect the employment contracts of directors and staff of the Secretariat. Kiyonga said the Movement Secretariat would interact with journalists on topical issues on a bi-monthly basis. Top Secretariat leaders, including directors Oguli Oumo, Latigo Olal and Alice Muwanguzi, attended. He said the war on political indiscipline would deal with all leaders regardless of whether they are in government or in the opposition. He said other forms of indiscipline include disobeying the Constitution. He said opposition leaders opening up branches of unregistered political parties fall in this category. He supported his point by citing Article 72 of the Constitution that requires any political organisation or party to resister before opening up branches. The state and specifically the Police will be absconding in its duty if it allowed this (unregistered parties opening branches) to happen. I know for sure that some opposition politicians think they will become heroes if the Police goes after them. He said such leaders wanted to provoke the state into action so that they can run to their foreign masters, alleging foul play. Ends The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
ugnet_: WORLD BANK REPORT VINDICATES MUGABE
World Bank report vindicates President By Caesar Zvayi The realisation that land is the key to poverty reduction and eradication is the basis for our countrys home-grown and agrarian-driven National Economic Revival Programme (NERP). This realisation was also the reason why the land issue was a rallying point in the build-up to the June 2000 legislative and March 2002 presidential elections as was coined in the slogan "Land is the economy and the economy is land". This is why the recent World Bank report titled "Policies for growth and poverty reduction", as reported in The Sunday Mail (August 3 2003), embraces this universal truism and vindicates President Mugabe in that it identifies land to be the cause of social conflicts and the key to poverty reduction and economic growth in the developing world. President Mugabe is vindicated on three fronts. Firstly, he was right in abandoning the Bretton Woods institutions prescriptions such as Esap and its surrogate Zimprest, policies which are on record as never having worked anywhere in the developing world, and which effectively served to reverse the gains the Government had made since independence in 1980. Esap and Zimprest prescribed the reduction of State spending on essential services such as education and health delivery, the privatisation of strategic parastatals and the liberalisation of key sectors of the economy, all of which brought untold suffering on the people. The resultant economic hardships have been viewed in some sectors to have been well calculated moves which were meant to pave the way for the emergence of a pro-western opposition. Secondly, the President and the ruling party were right in embarking on the land reform programme which was a rallying point in both the First and Second Chimurengas of 1896 and 1966 respectively. To date, the Government has delivered over 11 million hectares to over 300 000 families who had been condemned to unproductive agro-ecological regions as a result of colonial injustices which privileged a few thousand whites at the expense of millions of indigenous black people. Thirdly, the World Bank report endorses the Presidents preference for a home-grown economic revival programme based on land where it says: "The possession of land rights also typically ensures a baseline of shelter and food supply and allows people to turn latent assets into live capital through entrepreneurial activity . . . strengthening of poor peoples land rights and easing of barriers to land transactions can set in motion a wide range of social and economic benefits, including improving governance, empowerment of women and other marginalised people, increase private investment, more rapid economic growth and poverty reduction." Wasnt the World Bank chief economist, Dr Nicholas Stern, talking about NERP here? The Zanu-PF election manifestoes for the 2000 legislative and 2002 presidential elections identified land as the key to poverty reduction and eradication among black Zimbabweans. Various regional bodies such as Sadc and Comesa, and even the Commonwealth Troika, with the obvious exception of Don MacKinnon, identified land to be at the core of Zimbabwes socio-economic and political problems. Thinking Zimbabweans in both rural and urban constituencies identified with the Zanu-PF election manifestoes which highlighted that land ownership was the reason for the disparity between the scandalous wealth of the white minority groups and the abysmal poverty of the black majority, which is the reason why they endorsed the ruling party at the polls. Not surprisingly, the threat posed by land reform to white sectarian interests is the reason why racist Rhodies and their misguided black surrogates hate the President and the ruling party, and spawned a stooge movement in the vain hope of subverting black empowerment through the preservation of the status quo. This is why the MDC, which was formed primarily to safeguard the interests of Rhodie commercial farmers, tried to trivialise the land issue in the run-up to the legislative and presidential elections, even to the extent of using fictitious surveys from the Helen-Suzmann Foundation and the so-called Mass Public Opinion Institute to the effect that land was not an issue among the black populace as they wanted jobs. What myopia and naivety? What will you say now Morgan Tsvangirai, now that the World Bank chief economist, Dr Nicholas Stern, says: "Land policies are the root of social conflicts in countries as diverse as Cambodia, Zimbabwe and Cote dIvoire." What will you say now that the Bretton Woods institutions, which you lobbied to cut lines of credit to Zimbabwe, are of the same mind as our revered President, whose shoe- laces you are not even fit to tie? I know you will not say anything since you do not have a mind of your own. If you are to say anything, it wont surprise me to hear you parrot Dr Sterns words,
ugnet_: AIR FORCE OFFICER BLISTERS BUSH
Air Force Officer Delivers Blistering Excoriation Of Bush Says Bush is Responsible for September 11th AttacksBy Jerry Isaacs8-11-3 A US Air Force officer in California recently accused President Bush of deliberately allowing the September 11 terror attacks to take place. The officer has been relieved of his command and faces further discipline. The controversy surrounding Lt. Col. Steve Butler's letter to the editor, in which he affirmed that Bush did nothing to warn the American people because he "needed this war on terrorism," received scant coverage in the media. Universally ignored by the press, however, was that the officer was not merely expressing a personal opinion. He was in a position to have direct knowledge of contacts between the US military and some of the hijackers in the period before the terrorist attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center and damaged the Pentagon. Lieutenant Colonel Butler, who wrote in a letter to the editor of the Monterey County Herald charging that "Bush knew about the impending attacks," was vice chancellor for student affairs at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California " a US military facility that one or more of the hijackers reportedly attended during the 1990s. In his May 26 letter to the newspaper, Butler responded to Bush supporters, who had written the paper opposing the congressional investigation into the September 11 events. He wrote: "Of course President Bush knew about the impending attacks on America. He did nothing to warn the American people because he needed this war on terrorism. His daddy had Saddam and he needed Osama. His presidency was going nowhere. He wasn't elected by the American people, but placed in the Oval Office by a conservative supreme court. The economy was sliding into the usual Republican pits and he needed something on which to hang his presidency This guy is a joke. What is sleazy and contemptible is the President of the United States not telling the American people what he knows for political gain." The letter provoked immediate retaliation against the 24-year Air Force veteran. Butler was transferred from the Monterey installation and threatened with court martial under Article 88 of the military code, which prohibits officers from publicly using "contemptuous words" against the president and other officials. Last week the Air Force announced it had concluded its investigation of the case and suggested Butler would likely face "nonjudicial punishment," such as a fine or a letter of reprimand, rather than a stiffer sentence. If he refuses this punishment, however, Butler, who is ready to retire, could still face a court martial. The issue is a particularly sensitive one for the Pentagon and the Bush administration. While many people believe that the Bush administration viewed September 11 as a priceless opportunity to implement an ultra-reactionary program of militarism and repression, Butler is different. His military assignment brought him into contact with at least one of the alleged hijackers. Shortly after September 11, several US news outlets reported that Saeed AlghamdiÑnamed as taking part in the hijacking of United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed in western PennsylvaniaÑhad taken courses at the Defense Language Institute, the US military's primary foreign language facility, where Butler was a leading officer overseeing students (essentially, dean of students). Alghamdi, a 41-year-old Saudi national, was one of several alleged hijackers, including accused ringleader Mohamed Atta, who reportedly trained at US military facilities, according to a series of articles published between September 15 and 17 in the Washington Post, Newsweek magazine, the New York Times and several other newspapers. On September 15, Newsweek reported: "U.S. military sources have given the FBI information that suggests five of the alleged hijackers of the planes used in Tuesday's terror attacks received training at secure U.S. military installations in the 1990s." The magazine said that Saeed Alghamdi was among three who had taken flight training at the Navy Air Station in Pensacola, FloridaÑknown as the "cradle of US Navy aviation"Ñwhich also administers training of foreign aviation students for the Navy. The magazine,
ugnet_: CIA LOOTED THE VILLA IN IRAQ
CIA 'loots' villa where Saddam's sons died By Cécile Hennion in Mosul, northern Iraq 10 August 2003 The four-storey house in Mosul where Saddam Hussein's sons, Uday and Qusay, made their last stand has been demolished to prevent it being made into a shrine by Iraqis nostalgic for their father's rule. But before the bulldozers moved in, the site was picked over by American souvenir hunters. Four armed CIA men in plain clothes were prowling through the rubble in Mosul's Chalalat Street last week. One, a bald man with an automatic rifle slung over his shoulders who said he was from Colorado, admitted he was collecting souvenirs for himself and his colleagues. He and other armed Americans were removing pieces of blue and pink marble from interior walls and stacking them in the back of their vehicle. The Americans spent two hours in the rubble, watched silently by Iraqi workers and resentful local residents. Some said the demolition was unnecessary and compared the CIA men to looters. "They act with no honour," said one of the Iraqis bulldozing the house. Onlookers also condemned the owner of the house, Nawaf al-Zaidan, for "selling" Uday and Qusay, who died along with Qusay's son Mustafa, 14, and a bodyguard. "What he did is against Arab traditions," said Fida Ibrahim el-Uqadi, one of the workers demolishing the villa. "This is going to give us a very bad reputation among Arab countries and the rest of the world. Eventually, the $30m Nawaf got from selling his brothers will kill him." Two shopkeepers on the other side of the street who witnessed the end of Saddam's sons expressed similar views, even though they thought Uday and Qusay were indeed "bad guys". The two brothers, they said, made a fatal mistake by staying in the same house for 23 days. "At the beginning, we didn't know they were hiding there, but we knew something was wrong when Nawaf decided to transfer all his valuable furniture out of the building, claiming to neighbours that he was moving to a new apartment," a grocery shop owner said. He was still afraid to give his name. "Just call me Salwan," he said. He added that Mr al-Zaidan watched Saddam's sons meet their end. "They say Nawaf took his millions to Kuwait or the Emirates. But he still owed me 40,000 dinars [£27]." The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
ugnet_: RWANDA OPPOSITION CANDIDATE CHARGES INTERFERENCE IN CAMPAIGN
Rwandan opposition candidate charges interference in campaign Rwanda map (AfricaOnline.com) Staff ReporterKIGALI, 13 August 2003 A candidate in Rwanda's August 25 presidential election said the ruling party is using unfair tactics to frustrate his campaign efforts. But the electoral commission has denied the charge. KIGALI: Faustin Twagiramungu is one of four candidates vying for the position of president, a post currently held by President Paul Kagame of the ruling Rwandese Patriotic Front. Kagame is also running for president, as are Alivera Mukabaramba and Jean Nepomuscene Nayinzira. Twagiramungu said it is difficult for him to campaign effectively. He said he has been prevented from holding public rallies until recently, and claims that government agents are assaulting and detaining his supporters. "People who support us in different corners of the country are not in safety. They are being threatened. The only propaganda would be for the president, not for the competitors of his campaign," he said. Twagiramungu also claims that the Tutsi-led ruling party is warning that if Rwandans elect a Hutu such as him, there may be a repeat of the 1994 genocide in which up to one million people were killed when Hutu extremists indiscriminately killed members of the Tutsi ethnic group and moderate Hutus. The chairman of the National Electoral Commission of Rwanda, Chrisologue Karangwa, disputes Twagiramungu's claims, insisting the campaigns are free and fair. Karangwa also denies that government or party agents have been harassing the candidates' supporters. "I can assure you, in our commission, we follow everything within this campaign time. Neither Twagiramungu nor other candidates is intimidated or his supporters are intimidated. The commission is taking every measure to assure every candidate that he can have his rights in this campaign time," he said. Karangwa said it is Twagiramungu who is basing his campaign on ethnic politics by telling Hutus to take back power. "He's saying that the RPF [Rwandese Patriotic Front] is using that way [ethnic politics]. That is the contrary of what is being done here in our country." The August 25 election will be Rwanda's first since the 1994 genocide. After the violence, the RPF took power to deal with the genocide's aftermath and restore order. Since then, arrangements have been made to allow for multi-party elections. But despite these changes, observers are worried that these elections may not be free and fair. (Voice of America News)
ugnet_: Kabaka-President Mutesa (RIP)
Kasangwawo Why would I fake something about a cause of a death of an individual? Em The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie - Original Message - From: jonah kasangwawo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 4:38 PM Subject: Re: ugnet_: Kabaka-President Mutesa (RIP) So why don't you post the whole report for everyone to see ? Or is this another of your fake claims ! Kasangwawo From: Mulindwa Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ugnet_: Kabaka-President Mutesa (RIP) Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 16:05:40 -0400 Kasangwawo What is in that report is the cause of Mutesa's death. Em The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie - Original Message - From: jonah kasangwawo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 3:29 PM Subject: Re: ugnet_: Kabaka-President Mutesa (RIP) Mulindwa, They say that knowledge is power. I just want to know what is in the post-mortem report. Kasangwawo From: Mulindwa Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ugnet_: Kabaka-President Mutesa (RIP) Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 18:37:20 -0400 Kasangwawo Why? Em The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie - Original Message - From: jonah kasangwawo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 4:21 PM Subject: Re: ugnet_: Re: [Ugandacom] Kabaka-President Mutesa (RIP) Mulindwa, could you please post the entire post-mortem report of Muteesa II as you threatened. Kasangwawo From: Mulindwa Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ugnet_: Re: [Ugandacom] Kabaka-President Mutesa (RIP) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 18:50:10 -0400 Mwaami Matovu I am not going to be involved in name calling, you see I hate loosing the discussion. But I will stand with my original offer, that I do not want to see you again ever, posting any where a lie, like you did that Obote killed Mutesa through poison. As long as you do not state that lie I will accommodate you. If you want to see my very ugly side, lie again. For then you will leave me no option but to post the entire post-mortem report of Muteesa on Ugandanet. For it is the only proof I have that Mutesa died of a very different thing than your dreams. And posting that report on Ugandanet is the very last thing I want to do. But if you ever allege any where, that Obote killed Mutesa by poison, you will leave me no option. So be very aware of the consequences while in your very silly rumblings. I am sending you a direct copy of this posting so that we are both sure, that you did not miss it on Ugandanet. I hope we are on the same page now on. Em The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie - Original Message - From: joseph odwe To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 3:40 PM Subject: Re: [Ugandacom] Kabaka-President Mutesa (RIP) Matovu Not that you derseve even my comment on your silyness but I will bless you with it. By the way English is language that has been claimed by others as their own and unlike you I nkow I am not one of those. Therefore I will let you pride or worry yourself with the mastership of the language while take care of making my point understood. j.O From: Lutimba Matovu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: joseph odwe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Ugandacom] Kabaka-President Mutesa (RIP) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 10:34:15 -0700 (PDT) Odwe, Your poor written English clearly exemplifies your poor and low thinking capacity. I can't waste time engaging people like you. LM --- joseph odwe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks You all know that Lutimbwa Matovu
ugnet_: A COMPLAING TO TECHINICAL SUPPORT
Dear Tech Support, Last year I upgraded from Girlfriend 7.0 to Wife 1.0 and noticed that the new program began unexpected child processing that took up a lot of new space and valuable resources. No mention of this phenomenon was included in the product brochure. In addition, Wife 1.0 installs itself into all other programs and launches during system initialization, where it monitors all other system activity. Applications such as Poker Night 10.3, Drunken Boys Night 2.5 and Saturday Football 5.0 no longer run, crashing the system whenever selected. I cannot seem to keep wife 1.0 in the background while attempting to run some of my other favorite applications. I am thinking about going back to Girlfriend 7.0, but the uninstall does not work on this program. Can you please help me? Signed:A Troubled User -Reply Separator- Dear Troubled User, This is a very common problem men complain about, but is mostly due to a primary misconception. Many people upgrade from Girlfriend 7.0 to Wife 1.0 with the idea that Wife 1.0 is merely a UTILITIES ENTERTAINMENT program. Wife 1.0 is an OPERATING SYSTEM and designed by it's creator to run everything. It is unlikely you would be able to purge Wife 1.0 and still convert back to Girlfriend 7.0. Hidden operating files within your system would cause Girlfriend 7.0 to emulate Wife 1.0 so nothing is gained. It is impossible to uninstall, delete, or purge the program files from the system once installed. You cannot go back to Girlfriend 7.0 because Wife 1.0 is not designed to do this. Some have tried to install Girlfriend 8.0 or Wife 2.0 but end up with more problems than the original system. Look in your manual under "Warnings- Alimony/Child support". I recommend you keep Wife 1.0 and deal with the situation. I suggest installing background application program C:\YES DEAR to alleviate software augmentation. Having installed Wife 1.0 myself, I might also suggest you read the entire section regarding General Partnership Faults (GPFs). You must assume all responsibility for faults and problems that might occur, regardless of their cause. The best course of action will be to enter the command C:\APOLOGIZE. In any case avoid excessive use of C:\YES DEAR because ultimately you may have to give the APOLOGIZE command before the operating system will return to normal. The system will run smoothly as long as you take the blame for all the GPFs. Wife 1.0 is a great program, but very high-maintenance. Consider buying additional software to improve the performance of Wife 1.0. I recommend Flowers 3.1 and Diamonds 2K. Do not, under any circumstances install Secretary with Short Skirt 3.3. This is not a supported application for Wife 1.0 and is likely to cause irreversible damage to the operating system. Best of Luck,Tech Support
ugnet_: NEW ATTACKS WOUND 4 U.S TROOPS IN IRAQ
1 hour, 17 minutes ago By TAREK AL-ISSAWI, Associated Press Writer BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. troops came under renewed attacks Saturday that wounded at least four soldiers, and a team of FBI (news - web sites) investigators prepared to take control of the probe into the car bombing of the Jordanian Embassy. Soldiers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade on patrol in the northern city of Kirkuk were fired on with a rocket-propelled grenade and small arms early Saturday, said Lt. Col. Bill McDonald, spokesman for the 4th Infantry Division operating in the area. Two soldiers were wounded in the explosion and were in stable condition, McDonald said. The troops returned fire, he said. Also Saturday, soldiers west of Kirkuk opened fire on a car that ran a military checkpoint, wounding two Iraqis, McDonald said. The victims were evacuated to a Kirkuk hospital in stable condition, he said. In south-central Baghdad, two soldiers were wounded in a roadside bomb attack on their armored Humvee vehicle, said Maj. Todd Mercer of the 82nd Airborne Division. Thursday's bombing of the Jordanian Embassy, which killed 19 people and injured at least 50 raised fears that al-Qaida-linked terrorists were at work in Iraq (news - web sites). The bombing was the first large-scale terrorist attack since Baghdad fell to U.S. forces April 9. Authorities are looking at Ansar al-Islam, which U.S. officials claim is linked to al-Qaida, as a potential suspect, according to Lt. Gen. Norton Schwartz, director of operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "The one organization that we have confidence and that we know is in Iraq and in the Baghdad area is Ansar al-Islam," he said. "It is unknown whether this particular organization was associated with the (bombing). Perhaps that'll become clear as we go down the road. "But that is an al-Qaida-related organization and one that we are focusing attention on," Schwartz said. Fewer than a dozen FBI agents were dispatched to secure and analyze evidence. They also will train Iraqi investigators. It was not clear when the team would begin work or how long it would stay. "We will do all we can to help the Iraqi authorities find these people and bring them to justice," L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator of Iraq, said in a press release distributed by the Pentagon (news - web sites). The Bush administration fears Iraqi police don't have the techniques or tools to properly investigate the deadly attack, according to a senior Justice Department (news - web sites) official, speaking on condition of anonymity from Washington. So far, American authorities have said, they do not believe terrorist groups like Ansar or any other foreign fighters have played a major role in the guerrilla war against American occupation forces. They believe instead that the attacks are the work of remnants of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s regime his Republican Guard, Fedayeen militia and intelligence services. Before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Ansar al-Islam was known for bombings and assassinations of Kurdish figures. But the group, which has included veterans of bin Laden's training camps in Afghanistan (news - web sites), has not previously been linked to attacks on the scale of the embassy blast. U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) said the group was a link between Baghdad and al-Qaida when he made his case for war to the U.N. Security Council in February. Others have questioned whether there was any connection to Saddam Hussein's regime. U.S. forces knocked out Ansar-al-Islam's main headquarters in northeastern Iraq early in the war. Bremer has said the group has been rebuilding in the country, with surviving members filtering back from Iran. ___ AP writers D'Arcy Doran in Tikrit and Curt Anderson in Washington contributed to this report. The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
ugnet_: PM Makuza : I failed to reform my party, MDR
PM Makuza's Interview with Ugandan Paper "The Monitor" Excerpts I am the prime minister and I am not from the RPF. I am from MDR, the party that was recently banned. The responsibility of government falls on all of us collectively and RPF cannot impose its will on us. Let us look at the facts: RPF is in a minority in parliament with only 13 out of 74 members of the legislature. So, most of the people who say RPF dictates national policies and other political parties just rubber stamp are either ignorant of the facts or simply believe in confrontation. We the partners to the coalition government recognized the need for a transition period to heal old wounds. Do you really have any clout in government? People think you are just a figure-head prime minister. Oh yes, I exercise a lot of influence in parliament, in cabinet, and in different commissions, because policies in this country are agreed upon collectively. Just ignore this talk of rubber stamp and figure head prime minister. People who say these things do not know how the government of Rwanda works. They just speak about what they would want to see happening. We listen to each other. In any case, I should inform you that constitutionally, I chair cabinet, actually most of the time. The president only does so occasionally. You are the Prime Minister. Parliament banned your party. What do you feel? Aren't you angry? It is regrettable that MDR had ample time to modify its message and public perception of it. There was so much effort on my part to reform the party but I failed. Parliament made an inquiry and referred the matter to cabinet, which in turn referred it to the courts. That is the rule of law. There is consensus in government and parliament to ban the party. And we all must accept the rule of law and the principles of democracy. Prime Minister talks about progress over the years BERNARD MAKUZA, Prime minister of the republic of Rwanda, was interviewed by Monitor's Andrew M. Mwenda on political reconciliation in the Central African nation. Back to main page Mr Makuza (Courtesy Photo).Q ... What are the major milestones on the process of political reconciliation? Cause of genocide was bad leadership based on ethnic discrimination. The unity of our country had been destroyed. We had many of our people living in exile as refugees, while many inside were displaced. Services like the army were involved in these divisions. Our 1st priority in 1994 was to bring refugees back home from Congo, Tanzania and Burundi and Uganda, establish a stable political order and then work towards re unifying our people. Q ...How has the government one about the challenge of unifying the people?We did this by opening up space to discuss our past through the National Commission for Reconciliation and Unity (NCRU). It had many programs, conferences etc to discuss our past differences openly. We went out to seek people's views-both here and broad on what our major causes of divisions are. The NCRU also went abroad to discuss these issues in Europe and North America. But more importantly, although many former army people were involved in the genocide, we re-integrated many of them into the present army. We have also had some symbols in this country which represented only one social group in the nation. Take the example of the former flag, not all Rwandese recognized these symbols as national symbols. There was a machete in the court of arms. When you look back at how the machete has historically been used in Rwanda in 1959 and 1994 it was a killing instrument used by one social group against the other. Q ... You have changed the national symbols, now you have brought a new constitution. How does the new constitution answer Rwanda's problems? ANS. if you don't have peace and stability, you cannot progress. When you establish peace, you must create institutions to defend it and sustain it. In the past, Rwandans were a united people. Colonialism brought divisions and were later adopted and instrumentalised by the post-independence governments. Now our challenge is to re-establish national unity and build a strong constitutional basis for it. So the new constitution rejects discrimination based on ethnic group, gender or creed. Unity is the foundation of development. There is no country that has developed without unity. Our constitution is therefore strong in the rejection of sectarian politics and punishes these who propagated it. Q ... Critics say that you have
ugnet_: DO YOU TRUST YOUR DOCTOR?
Aug. 11 -- After 67-year-old Hurshell Ralls went into surgery for bladder cancer, he came out of surgery missing more than he ever expected. His penis and testicles were gone. "My wife had to hold my hand in the bed there. And she said 'Honey it's over. They got all the cancer.' And she waited a few minutes and then said 'But they had to remove your penis.' And I was one mad dude, you know," Ralls said on ABCNEWS' Good Morning America.Ralls, a mechanic, says doctors never warned him or his wife that amputation of the penis and testicles might have been part of surgery before he went in for the procedure in November 1999. Ralls filed a negligence lawsuit against the Clinics of North Texas in Wichita Falls, and the doctors who operated on him. The civil case is set for trial Aug. 25. "It was never even discussed. And I felt like he ought to have at least told us that this might be a possibility so that we could have talked it over even before he was admitted to the hospital," said Thelma Ralls, his wife. In a February deposition, Ralls' doctor said that he determined the cancer had spread to the penis while he was removing Ralls' bladder. Doctors did not send a tissue sample to the lab until after the surgery. A Dallas doctor who examined cell slides later found that Ralls did not have penile cancer. The Ralls' case may sound outrageous, but for cancer patients across the country, medical errors are something they and many other hospital patients face with alarming frequency. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation reported in 2001 that 95 percent of doctors have witnessed a major medical mistake, and that many of them involved cancer. When Johns Hopkins reviewed tissue samples from thousands of cancer patients around the country, they found one out of every 71 cases was misdiagnosed. Both Breasts Removed, No Cancer Frank Barerra is another cancer patient who was the victim of an error. He was actually in surgery, about to have his prostate removed, when a call came from the pathology department there had been a mistake. His slides showed no cancer. "You can imagine it was like waking up from a bad dream," Barerra said. "It never occurred to me that a pathology lab could just bungle a decision like that." Last January, Good Morning America interviewed Linda McDougal, who was misdiagnosed with breast cancer. McDougal was given a double mastectomy at the United Hospital of St. Paul, Minn., in May 2002. After the surgery, McDougal was told that she actually had no signs of cancer. "My surgeon walked in and said that she had bad news, and she had no other way of telling us other than to put it on the table. And that I didn't have cancer," McDougal said. "And my immediate reaction was, great, you got it all. And then she said, you don't understand. You never had cancer. And it was instant shock. I couldn't even react to it." When McDougal appeared on Good Morning America, the hospital that did the operation offered an apology. Dr. Laurel Krause, a senior pathologist at the hospital said that two patient slides at the hospital were inadvertently switched. "We deeply regret what happened, and wish we had made that clear at the time," Krause said. "At the time, Linda was very angry, and justifiably so." But to victims of medical errors, sometimes an apology can't make up for what they've lost. "I really felt like they played God and took it in their hands and decided to do it," Thelma Ralls said. "This is Hurshell's life, and my life. And to me they destroyed our sexual life." Understand Your Doctor Dr. Rache Simmons, a breast cancer surgeon with Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York, said that there are steps that patients can take to protect themselves. First of all, patients should listen carefully to their doctors, and all of their options and recommendations. If you don't understand your doctor, get a new one, she advises. "Part of being a good doctor is being able to communicate with your patients," Simmons said. "If you don't understand your doctor, and you've asked him or her to explain it again and your still don't get it, find another physician." Patients who are told they need surgery should also seek out a second opinion. It makes good sense, and almost all health plans will pay for it. If the opinions disagree, call your health plan and ask if they will pay for a third. If they won't go with your gut on whether to proceed with the surgery, Simmons said. Once the decision is made, all patients should bring a family member or friend to a pre-surgical appointment to write down information and ask questions. "I give out hand-outs and videos at my practice because, as a breast cancer surgeon, it's hard for anyone to be calm enough to take in all the information at the appointment," Simmons said. Ready for the WorstIt is also important for patients to designate someone as their health care proxy before surgery, Simmons said. The
ugnet_: UGANDA: the death of Idi Amin Dada is imminent.
AFRICA CONFIDENTIAL Vol 44 Number 16 - 08 August 2003 Father and son The death of Idi Amin Dada, prematurely reported several times by Kampala newspapers in recent weeks, may indeed be imminent. Bizarrely, Amin still has sympathisers some of whom are serving in President Yoweri Museveni's government. Deputy Prime Minister Moses Ali announced he was grieving for Amin. Former Vice-President General Mustafa Adrisi openly wept at the news of Amin's reported death. Even former President Milton Obote, who was ousted by Amin in 1971 but also succeeded him in the (heavily rigged) 1980 elections, has equivocated, as have some more radical opposition groups, such as the Reform Agenda.
ugnet_: A U. K MAN ARRESTED IN ALLEGED MISSILE PLOT
Netters Can you imagine if this was an African? Em === 13 minutes ago By CURT ANDERSON, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - The FBI (news - web sites) has arrested a British man as part of an international sting operation targeting an alleged plot to smuggle shoulder-fired missiles into the United States, authorities said Tuesday. AP Photo The man was arrested in Newark, N.J., according to a senior law enforcement official speaking on condition of anonymity. The man's name and the charges were not immediately disclosed. The arrest was part of a broader investigation by the FBI, British and Russian authorities, the official said. At least two more arrests were expected. Another law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity said the British man does not appear to be connected to a known terrorist group. The suspect is thought to be more of an arms dealer or smuggler, the official said. Authorities stressed no specific credible threat was connected to the alleged plot. Justice Department (news - web sites) officials had no immediate comment on the case. Concerns about terrorists using shoulder-fired missiles to shoot down commercial airliners increased in November when two SA-7 missiles narrowly missed an Israeli passenger jet after it took off from Mombassa, Kenya. Officials concluded that al-Qaida probably was behind the attack, which coincided with a bomb blast at a nearby hotel. Hundreds and perhaps thousands of SA-7s heat-seeking rockets that can hit low-flying aircraft within three miles are said to be available on the worldwide arms market. Older missile launchers can be bought for as little as several thousand dollars. The Homeland Security Department has asked high-tech companies to look into developing anti-missile technology for commercial planes. Some in Congress have been pushing for more money for the project. Meantime, the United States has sent experts to domestic airports as well as to airports in Iraq (news - web sites) and major capitals in Europe and Asia to assess security. Among other things, the investigators are determining whether the airports can be defended against shoulder-fired missiles. World leaders meeting in Evian, France, in June acknowledged the threat posed by shoulder-fired missiles and adopted a plan to restrict sales of the weapons. ___ On the Net: FBI: http://www.fbi.gov The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
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Museveni praises Spe SAVE THE LAST DANCE: Museveni and Kazibwe The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
Re: ugnet_: By Muniini K. Mulera In Toronto
Good night Mwaami Musaazi Em The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie - Original Message - From: emmanuel musaazi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 7:45 PM Subject: Re: ugnet_: By Muniini K. Mulera In Toronto Mr. Mulindwa, you always make a lot of statements without facts. Your opinions appear to be based on rumours and gossip. When you do put up articles to support your position, you immediately procede to put your own spin on them. You even deny historical facts. I would like to believe that Ugandans who log on to this site are intelligent and know the history of there country. You apparently don't believe so or are just ignorant about this fact. Hence all the postings highlighting the gruesome situation in the north while they are accurate, tend to lose there significance because of the spin you attach to them and that offends me. Then if one does not accept your opinion of the crisis, you procede to brand them as apologists of what is going on. I want to remind you that their are many northerners in the UPDF who are in the north fighting to protect those innocent civilians in the north. Their are northern politicians IN Uganda who also support the government's approach to the crisis. I think it is very disingenuous of you to use the abominable and catastrophic crisis in the north to score cheap political points. We refuse to by your VERY CHEAP DOPE. From: Mulindwa Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ugnet_: By Muniini K. Mulera In Toronto Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 03:48:30 -0400 When did Emanuel Musaazi arrive from Mars? Em The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie - Original Message - From: emmanuel musaazi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 12:34 PM Subject: Re: ugnet_: By Muniini K. Mulera In Toronto ...as horrible as the northern crisis is, one can't help but notice the silence and lack of outrage of notherners (particularly those on this forum) towards Kony and his band of criminals and to me that is surprising. I would hope that this tragedy is not being used by die-hard opponents of the government as a political trump card, because that would be a shame and a disgrace (petty politics at it's worst). We should also remember that hundreds of UPDF soldiers have died trying to protect innocent civilians in the north, they also deserve some sympathy. From: Mulindwa Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Anne Mugisha [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ugnet_: By Muniini K. Mulera In Toronto Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 19:11:07 -0400 Ugandans It is very interesting to see Dr Mulera writing this kind of statements today, but I think he is too late to join the rest of Ugandans who have condemned daily these kinds of killings in Northern and eastern. And we must as well remember that Ugandans who are in those areas know full well who have supported their being killed. For let us not kid our selves, killing Northerners was not started yesterday, it has been going on for the last 20 years, so I will not challenge my friend Mulera to go back into history very long ago, so I will ask him only two very simple questions. 1) In the early 80's when Yoweri Museveni stated Northerners are Biological substances, and many of these people are not fit to live with us Can Dr Mulera produce where he publicly opposed that statement? 2) When Kiiza besigye stated Acholis and Langis should be eradicated from Uganda Can he produce where he opposed it? You see the danger is that today Northern Uganda has become a public case, and there is no one who has done this apart from the Northerners them selves, and if today in 2003 people like my friend and neighbour Dr Muniini Mulera can come up with such sentiments, can you imagine if he stood for the population in Northern Uganda from 1984 when he was the best seller of the NRM government in Canada? There is allot of blood that has been poured in Northern and Eastern Uganda, but we must never delude our selves that it is Museveni alone to blame, for that will be the greatest delusion. Em The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans
ugnet_: Kabaka-President Mutesa (RIP)
Kasangwawo Why? Em The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie - Original Message - From: jonah kasangwawo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 4:21 PM Subject: Re: ugnet_: Re: [Ugandacom] Kabaka-President Mutesa (RIP) Mulindwa, could you please post the entire post-mortem report of Muteesa II as you threatened. Kasangwawo From: Mulindwa Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ugnet_: Re: [Ugandacom] Kabaka-President Mutesa (RIP) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 18:50:10 -0400 Mwaami Matovu I am not going to be involved in name calling, you see I hate loosing the discussion. But I will stand with my original offer, that I do not want to see you again ever, posting any where a lie, like you did that Obote killed Mutesa through poison. As long as you do not state that lie I will accommodate you. If you want to see my very ugly side, lie again. For then you will leave me no option but to post the entire post-mortem report of Muteesa on Ugandanet. For it is the only proof I have that Mutesa died of a very different thing than your dreams. And posting that report on Ugandanet is the very last thing I want to do. But if you ever allege any where, that Obote killed Mutesa by poison, you will leave me no option. So be very aware of the consequences while in your very silly rumblings. I am sending you a direct copy of this posting so that we are both sure, that you did not miss it on Ugandanet. I hope we are on the same page now on. Em The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie - Original Message - From: joseph odwe To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 3:40 PM Subject: Re: [Ugandacom] Kabaka-President Mutesa (RIP) Matovu Not that you derseve even my comment on your silyness but I will bless you with it. By the way English is language that has been claimed by others as their own and unlike you I nkow I am not one of those. Therefore I will let you pride or worry yourself with the mastership of the language while take care of making my point understood. j.O From: Lutimba Matovu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: joseph odwe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Ugandacom] Kabaka-President Mutesa (RIP) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 10:34:15 -0700 (PDT) Odwe, Your poor written English clearly exemplifies your poor and low thinking capacity. I can't waste time engaging people like you. LM --- joseph odwe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks You all know that Lutimbwa Matovu is on the publicaly known movement's pay roll. As such all should have nown by now that the movement as unskilled in politics and norms is it has shown across the board strive on cheep lies,treats, opression of all sorts and their favourite-murder. I wonder why would anyone belief even for a moment that Lutimbwa with his yea sir mentality would be an exception to that. Not now probably not at any time. j.O From: Mulindwa Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Edward Mulindwa [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Ugandacom] Kabaka-President Mutesa (RIP) Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 04:41:34 -0400 Ugandans I had a very hard time to understand why Lutimba Matovu would decide to pedal such very terrible lies, that Obote killed Mutesa when such a lie can be proven and with facts. And Matovu has every right to hate Obote but why lie like that? And such lies have been shaken very many times in these forums by facts, yet the best the paddlers have done is to cry those are paid by Obote. Just for the record the death of Mutesa was a public knowledge, and so was the cause. So let us not scoop to such unbelievable levels. Em The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie - Original Message - From: Elum aniap Godfrey Ayoo To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Edward Mulindwa ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 3:44 AM Subject: [Ugandacom] Kabaka-President
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TWAGIRAMUNGU would not agree to serve President Kagame as a prime minister "I would not agree to serve President Kagame as a prime minister.Let me tell you the truth, we would not agree with Kagame.Unless something changes but under normal circumstances I would not do it.""Working for the country does not only mean working with the presidentafter he has won the elections. I could look for a loan and become abusinessman,I could say I am an experienced politician so let me teach, I have nowacquired enough experience in organizing conferences at universities."Excerpt:Radio Rwanda, Kigali, in Kinyarwanda 1305 gmt 9 Aug 03 The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
ugnet_: AMERICA GETS CLOSER TO GOD!!!!
Judge orders Ten Commandments removed from courthouse The Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- A federal judge ordered Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore on Tuesday to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the Alabama Judicial Building within 15 days or face possible daily fines against the state. U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson of Montgomery, who has ruled the 5,300-pound monument violates the constitutional ban on government promotion of religion, lifted a stay he had previously issued while Moore appealed. Moore, whose stand was rejected by an appeals court, has said he plans to turn to the U.S. Supreme Court with his argument that the monument should remain in the judicial building. Thompson's ruling came a day after Moore filed a curt, two-paragraph brief with the court, claiming that Thompson did not have the authority to make him remove the black granite monument. Thompson's order Tuesday said the monument must be moved from the public areas of the building by Aug. 20, but could remain in a private area, such as Moore's chambers. The building houses the Supreme Court chamber and offices of appeals court judges. The monument is in the rotunda, one of the first things seen upon entering. If Moore does not comply with the order, Thompson said he does not plan to take immediate action to physically remove the monument, but may fine the state each day that the monument remains in the rotunda. An attorney for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Ayesha Khan, one of three groups that filed suit challenging the monument, said it is time for Moore to remove it. "The monument is becoming a millstone around the neck of Alabama. It is time to let reason prevail over politics," Khan said. Tom Parker, an attorney for Moore, said they would respond after getting a chance to review Thompson's latest order. The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
ugnet_: YOUR MOTHER INSTRUCTED YOU TO KEEP THE RECEIPTS ALWAYS
The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
ugnet_: JUSTICE UNDER SIEGE IN RWANDA
EDITORIALJustice under siege in RwandaJustice is supposed to be blind. Taking that idea literally, though, may cost the chief United Nations war-crimes prosecutor, Ms. Carla Del Ponte, her job. Ms. Del Ponte is under attack by the Rwandan government for believing that her mandate is to prosecute all perpetrators of war crimes in that horrendous conflict -- winners and losers. Her audacity has earned her the enmity of the Rwanda government, and the U.N. Security Council appears ready to go along. Ms. Del Ponte deserves more support. History must not be written by the victors, and their crimes forgotten. During the 1994 civil war in Rwanda, it is estimated that as many as 800,000 Rwandans lost their lives, the majority of them Tutsis, killed by members of the Hutu ethnic group. The Hutus were eventually overwhelmed by Tutsi groups that reclaimed control of the government and the country, but as many as 30,000 lives might have been lost as a result of reprisal killings. Once order was restored in Rwanda, the U.N. established a war-crimes court to try to render some justice in the aftermath of the slaughter. Ms. Del Ponte was appointed to oversee the tribunal. That move made sense since Ms. Del Ponte, a former Swiss attorney general, was also heading up prosecution in The Hague tribunal, which is hearing war-crimes trials for the former Yugoslavia. Ms. Del Ponte's four-year term is up for renewal next month, and she has come under fire for the slow pace of prosecutions in Rwanda. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan reportedly will recommend that Ms. Del Ponte be replaced as head of the Rwanda tribunal, while retaining her charter in The Hague. Mr. Annan apparently believes that heading both posts is too much for one person. There may be something to the complaint. The court in Arusha, Rwanda, has completed 15 cases; 61 others are in progress. Fifty five individuals are being detained. Given that the court has 16 judges, more than 800 staff members and a budget of nearly $100 million a year, complaints of inefficiency deserve a hearing. Ms. Del Ponte has been blamed for being primarily responsible; her critics charge that she spends too much time in The Hague on the Yugoslavia tribunal, failing to give the Rwanda proceedings proper attention. But the real source of concern about Ms. Del Ponte is her readiness to hold Rwanda's Tutsis as accountable for their misdeeds as its Hutus. She has pushed for the investigation of the Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Army, which is thought to be responsible for the tens of thousands of reprisal killings that followed the Hutu uprising in 1994. The Tutsis managed to drive the Hutus out of the country, and their readiness to prosecute their enemies is not matched by a readiness to hold members of their own ethnic group to a similar level of accountability. They have prevented people sought for questioning from traveling to the war-crimes court. Ms. Del Ponte has charged that the government is blocking prosecution of well-connected individuals who might have committed crimes. They have been pushing to have Ms. Del Ponte replaced and Tutsi crimes turned over to national courts. The U.N. Security Council appears ready to acquiesce. Mr. Annan is genuinely concerned about the slow pace of prosecutions in Rwanda and is said to be set to recommend that a new prosecutor be appointed to handle those cases. The Security Council governments are reportedly ready to agree, although they are concerned about undue influence by the Rwandan government. Complaints about inefficiency are understandable. All war-crimes prosecutions are slow and require considerable patience. Similar complaints were voiced about the Yugoslav tribunal, but they have quieted as the court continues to jail and hold accountable individuals who committed crimes during the breakup of the former Yugoslavia. Ms. Del Ponte may be stretched too thin. But if she is replaced, the new prosecutor must have a clear mandate to go after criminals no matter what ethnic group. Hutus and Tutsis must both be held accountable for their crimes. There can be no victor's justice. Neither can there be a compromise of the U.N.'s reliance on impartial justice. It is hoped that the Security Council's readiness to replace Ms. Del Ponte is not a sign of its readiness to look the other way and accept the crimes committed by the government in Rwanda. The Japan Times: Aug. 13, 2003(C) All rights reserved The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
ugnet_: U S TROOPS IN IRAQ HAVE PNEUMONIA
Army Stumped on Cause of Troop Illnesses By PAULINE JELINEK, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - The Army is telling troops to take precautions as it tries to figure out the cause of pneumonia cases, including two deaths, among forces in the Afghan and Iraqi campaigns. Officials are investigating the cause of some 100 cases of the illness counted since March, focusing on 15 cases so serious the patients had to be put on ventilators and flown to Europe, defense officials said at a Pentagon (news - web sites) press conference Tuesday. "We're deeply concerned about the deaths," David N. Tornberg, a deputy assistant secretary for health policy, said of the two fatal cases. "We'd like a comprehensive understanding to be available to the families, to the husbands, to the wives of our servicemen so they better understand the nature of these conditions." So far, officials have pretty much ruled out exposure to anthrax, smallpox or any other biological or chemical weapon; to Legionnaires' disease; or to SARS (news - web sites), severe acute respiratory syndrome, said Col. Robert DeFraites, chief of preventive medicine in the Army surgeon general's office. DeFraites said officials believe two of the cases were streptococcal pneumonia, caused by common bacteria. The cause of the rest of the cases remains a mystery. The 15 serious cases among 14 men and one woman have been spread throughout Southwest Asia. Ten of the 15 were in Iraq (news - web sites), but others were as far away as Uzbekistan, DeFraites said. Fourteen of the victims were Army members and one a Marine. There was no apparent connection between the 15 most serious cases. They were from different units, and their cases were spread over time two in March, two in April, one in May, six in June and four in July. The last confirmed case was July 30, DeFraites said. A two-person investigative team has gone to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, where most of the cases were treated after evacuation. A six-person team en route to Iraq includes infectious disease experts, laboratory workers and people who will take samples of soil, water and air as well as medical samples from patients. The two teams will review patient records and laboratory results and interview health care workers and patients, if possible. In the meantime, officials also are hoping to limit the number of new cases. Soldiers are being told to avoid becoming dehydrated in the intense heat and dust; protect themselves against breathing dust by wearing masks; and water down dusty surfaces before they sweep. Heavy dust storms have been a problem in Iraq. "And finally, we all know that definitely cigarette smoking is a risk factor for pneumonia no matter what age, no matter what population," DeFraites said. "We emphasize that normally to the troops anyway, but this is even more a reason to avoid cigarette smoking." Armywide, pneumonia cases serious enough to warrant hospitalization happen in about 9 of 10,000 soldiers per year, so the 100 cases are not unexpected. It is the severity of the 15 cases that has caused special concern. Between 400 and 500 soldiers get pneumonia every year in the Army worldwide, DeFraites said, though it might surprise some that "otherwise young, healthy adults" get the illness. From 1998 through 2002, 17 soldiers have died from complications from pneumonia, he said. "So even in this day and age, we still, unfortunately, lose some soldiers due to pneumonia," he said. The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
ugnet_: Most rally venues booked by RPF ?
Measures in place for free and fair poll, Kagame says KIGALI, 11 August (IRIN) - The government has taken action aimed at ensuring that the 25 August presidential election in Rwanda is free and fair, President Paul Kagame, himself one of the four contenders for the post,said on Sunday."We have put in place all measures that ensure a free and fair election, the first being that the vote will be done through a secret ballot," Kagame said.Speaking to reporters on his fourth campaign tour across the country, he said the election, the first since the 1994 genocide, would be held in a transparent manner, devoid of any malpractice."Thousands of monitors, including people backing my main opponent, have been invited to come and witness the poll," he saidKagame, 46, is seeking to legitimise his rule through a democratic pollsince the genocide in which at least 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus were killed.Kagame's main challenger, Faustin Twagiramungu, recently complained that his supporters and campaign agents are being harassed by the government and Kagame's supporters. However, Kagame described the accusation as "cheap talk and campaign smear" that is backed by no credible evidence.Since launching his campaign a week ago, Kagame, considered the favourite in the poll, has promised Rwandans that he would foster national unity, improve standards of living in rural areas, boost the country's economy and deliver justice.Kagame, a Tutsi, has drawn large crowds of people in his campaign rallies across the country.Twagiramungu held his first campaign rally on Saturday, a week after Kagame, citing lack of rally venues after government officials told him that most of the spaces had been booked by Kagame's party, the Rwanda Patriotic Front.He has promised to double employment opportunities in the country, ensure the return thousands of Rwandan refugees living outside the country and to bring peace to a region beset by war.
ugnet_: BRITISH SOLDIERS FACE WRATH OF IRAQIS
British Soldiers Face Wrath Of IraqisHatred Festers On Streets Of BasraBy Justin Huggler The Independent - UK8-12-3 BASRA -- Burnt tyres and stones that were thrown at British soldiers trying to contain riots by Iraqis infuriated by constant power cuts and a fuel crisis still littered the streets of Basra yesterday. Calm had been restored to the city after two days in which at least one Iraqi protester was killed - who fired the bullet is still unclear - and a Nepalese former Gurkha soldier was shot dead when his UN car was ambushed in the street. But you get the sense the British are sitting on a pressure cooker. How serious the riots were depends on whom you speak to. Ask the British occupation authority which runs the south of Iraq, and it was all a storm in a teacup. Ask the Iraqis on the streets of Basra, and you hear a different story. There is anger seething on the streets. "Only a thousand people were involved in the protests, out of a city of two million," says Steve Bird, a spokesman for the military. "If you ask the people here, they'll tell you they want us here, to help rebuild the infrastructure." But even as Mr Bird says reassuringly that the security situation in Basra is under control, the crackle of gunfire can be heard through his office window. Outside the fortified British compound, American soldiers arrive in a Humvee. Iraqi children shout abuse at the Americans. They want to throw stones, but some older Iraqis nervously restrain them. "If you had come yesterday, we would have beaten you," Majid al-Eidani, one of the Iraqis queuing at a local petrol station, tells me. "We are very happy that Saddam Hussein is gone," said another man in the queue, Laith al-Tayi. "But sometimes we say at least Saddam Hussein is a Muslim, but the British are foreigners. We cannot accept them. They must know they cannot stay here for 40 years. If they try, we will kick them out. What would you do if you were in our shoes?" These are the Shia heartlands, which suffered cruelty and repression at the hands of Saddam. Nowhere in Iraq were they happier to see him go, and until now, the British have been enjoying relative calm while the Americans suffer daily attacks in Baghdad and elsewhere. But the British appear to be running out of goodwill fast. The riots were spontaneous, according to everyone we spoke to in Basra - despite British claims of some shadowy group behind them. The people came on to the streets because they were enraged at a total, 24-hour power blackout, and a fuel crisis so acute that Mr Tayi says he queued for 12 hours to get petrol for his car and still went home empty-handed. To understand how important electricity and fuel are, you have to feel the heat in Basra. Temperatures soared above 50C this week. Air conditioning is vital: when the power goes, Basrans turn to their home generators. But they run on fuel. This week they have been keeping cool by drinking water, which they keep cold by buying huge blocks of ice and carrying them home. © 2003 Independent Digital (UK) Ltd http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=432843 The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
