From SaintAnn at aol.com  Thu Nov  1 09:50:28 2001
From: SaintAnn at aol.com (SaintAnn at aol.com)
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 09:50:28 EST
Subject: [Guinea-list] Fwd: AFRICA DISCOUNTED TICKETS
Message-ID: <d6.dea8e3a.2912bb34@aol.com>

In a message dated 10/31/01 4:56:35 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
africa at spectortravel.com writes:


> Subj:AFRICA DISCOUNTED TICKETS 
> Date:10/31/01 4:56:35 PM Pacific Standard Time
> From:<A HREF="mailto:africa at spectortravel.com">africa at spectortravel.com</A>
> To:<A HREF="mailto:SaintAnn at aol.com">SaintAnn at aol.com</A>
> Sent from the Internet 
> 
> Kathy, someone may be able to use this, I have notivced folks have been 
> asking about the cheapest rates to Guinea...Ann
> 
>   DESTINATION: ROUND TRIP FROM:
> 
> ABIDJAN, COTE D'IVOIRE $ 1014
> 
> ACCRA, GHANA $ 1014
> 
> BAMAKO, MALI $ 1014
> 
> BANGUI, C.A.R. $ 1274
> 
> BANJUL, THE GAMBIA $ 824
> 
> BISSAU, GUINEA BISSAU $ 1014
> 
> BRAZZAVILLE, CONGO $ 1274
> 
> CAPETOWN, SOUTH AFRICA $ 900
> 
> CONAKRY, GUINEA $ 1014
> 
> COTONOU, BENIN $ 1024
> 
> DAKAR, SENEGAL $ 791
> 
> DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA $ 1400
> 
> DOUALA, CAMEROON $ 1274
> 
> DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA $ 1040
> 
> ENTEBBE, UGANDA $ 1200
> 
> GABORONE, BOTSWANA $ 1080
> 
> HARARE, ZIMBABWE $ 1040
> 
> JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA $ 900
> 
> LAGOS, NIGERIA $ 1024
> 
> LIBREVILLE, GABON $ 1274
> 
> LILONGWE, MALAWI $ 1190
> 
> LOME, TOGO $ 1024
> 
> LUANDA, ANGOLA $ 1190
> 
> LUSAKA, ZAMBIA $ 1040
> 
> MANZINI, SWAZILAND $ 1080
> 
> MAPUTO, MOZAMBIQUE $ 1040
> 
> NAIROBI, KENYA $ 1095
> 
> N'DJAMENA, CHAD $ 1274
> 
> NIAMEY, NIGER $ 1024
> 
> NOUAKCHOTT, MAURITANIA $ 945
> 
> OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO $ 1024
> 
> VICTORIA FALLS, ZIMBABWE $ 1160
> 
> WINDHOEK, NAMIBIA $ 1040
> 
> 
> 
> NEW YORK DEPARTURES PLUS $45 TAX. GROUP DEPARTURES & MEETING/CONVENTION 
> PLANNING ON REQUEST. ASK FOR OTHER DESTINATIONS & TOUR PACKAGES. RATES 
> SUBJECT TO CHANGE
> 
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From fogwebmaster at yahoo.com  Thu Nov  1 12:10:12 2001
From: fogwebmaster at yahoo.com (FOG Web Admin)
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 09:10:12 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Guinea-list] sending attachments to the list
In-Reply-To: <BF6236623E01D511B48A00508B48566DA8B41D@EXCHANGE_SERVER>
Message-ID: <20011101171012.88653.qmail@web9902.mail.yahoo.com>

Hello,

Please refrain from sending attachments to the list. 
The reasons are threefold:

1.  Not everyone can read attachments, depending on
mail system and operating system
2.  Attachments can contain viruses
3.  Attachments are big and take up space -- both in
the receiver's mailbox, and for our server to send out
(and we can get charged extra by our listserv
provider)

Instead, copy and paste the text you wish to send into
the email.  If you want to send pictures, contact me
and I will let you use my web space.

Karen -- this isn't a slam on you at all... it's my
fault, I should have thought to mention this when you
asked me about posting the letters.  I just wanted to
make this issue clear to everyone so that others don't
follow suit.

Thanks!

Stephanie



--- "Sayre, Karen" <KSayre at uws.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I guess this week was one for correspondence from
> Guinea PCV trainees
> because we got 2 letters from our daughter, Emilie. 
> She also got to call
> from a phone in some post office so we spoke for a
> bit with her on Saturday.
> I'm not quite sure how we ended up getting through,
> but it took many tries
> before we got the call completed and then the
> connection was broken after
> about 5 minutes.
> 
> For those who are interested, I am attaching the
> text of the letters we
> received.  I have had some trouble sending
> attachments, so if you cannot
> open the document I apologize in advance.  And
> thanks to others who have
> posted correspondence from their family members -
> it's really nice to have
> this "extended family".
> 
> Karen Sayre
> Program Director for Children and Families
> United Way Services
> 1331 Euclid Avenue
> Cleveland, OH 44115
> (216) 436-2218
> ksayre at uws.org
> 					 <<Em letter for listserv.doc>> 
> 

> ATTACHMENT part 2 application/msword name=Em letter
for listserv.doc



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From fogwebmaster at yahoo.com  Thu Nov  1 12:15:55 2001
From: fogwebmaster at yahoo.com (FOG Web Admin)
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 09:15:55 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Guinea-list] sending attachments to the list
In-Reply-To: <BF6236623E01D511B48A00508B48566DA8B41D@EXCHANGE_SERVER>
Message-ID: <20011101171555.83563.qmail@web9908.mail.yahoo.com>

Hello,

Please refrain from sending attachments to the list. 
The reasons are threefold:

1.  Not everyone can read attachments, depending on
mail system and operating system
2.  Attachments can contain viruses
3.  Attachments are big and take up space -- both in
the receiver's mailbox, and for our server to send out
(and we can get charged extra by our listserv
provider)

Instead, copy and paste the text you wish to send into
the email.  If you want to send pictures, contact me
and I will let you use my web space.

Karen -- this isn't a slam on you at all... it's my
fault, I should have thought to mention this when you
asked me about posting the letters.  I just wanted to
make this issue clear to everyone so that others don't
follow suit.

Thanks!

Stephanie



--- "Sayre, Karen" <KSayre at uws.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I guess this week was one for correspondence from
> Guinea PCV trainees
> because we got 2 letters from our daughter, Emilie. 
> She also got to call
> from a phone in some post office so we spoke for a
> bit with her on Saturday.
> I'm not quite sure how we ended up getting through,
> but it took many tries
> before we got the call completed and then the
> connection was broken after
> about 5 minutes.
> 
> For those who are interested, I am attaching the
> text of the letters we
> received.  I have had some trouble sending
> attachments, so if you cannot
> open the document I apologize in advance.  And
> thanks to others who have
> posted correspondence from their family members -
> it's really nice to have
> this "extended family".
> 
> Karen Sayre
> Program Director for Children and Families
> United Way Services
> 1331 Euclid Avenue
> Cleveland, OH 44115
> (216) 436-2218
> ksayre at uws.org
> 					 <<Em letter for listserv.doc>> 
> 

> ATTACHMENT part 2 application/msword name=Em letter
for listserv.doc



=====
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From s_chasteen at hotmail.com  Thu Nov  1 14:50:40 2001
From: s_chasteen at hotmail.com (Stephanie Chasteen)
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 11:50:40 -0800
Subject: [Guinea-list] looking for Ann Ingraham
Message-ID: <F104RUXtqe7sjbmDoP600003a32@hotmail.com>

I'm looking for Ann Ingraham, who was in the Basse Cote from 96-98.  Please 
let me know if you have her contact info.

Steph

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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HOME:  831-429-8420    WORK: 831-459-5456    CELL: 831-247-4837
EMAIL:  s_chasteen at hotmail.com OR stephanie at physics.ucsc.edu
WEB:  http://physics.ucsc.edu/~stephanie/home.html
FRIENDS OF GUINEA:  http://friendsofguinea.org
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From forquerp at att.net  Fri Nov  2 11:24:03 2001
From: forquerp at att.net (forquerp at att.net)
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 16:24:03 +0000
Subject: [Guinea-list] Fwd: I am alive and well
Message-ID: <20011102162404.MNDL4554.mtiwmhc22.worldnet.att.net@webmail.worldnet.att.net>

I finally received a letter from Josh yesterday. I have 
it scanned in PDF format about 1 Meg, and will gladly 
post to list if anyone is interested and someone tells 
me how or I will forward to individuals if you ask. This 
morning I recevied the email below. 
I am amazed how positive both the letter and email are!



--
Paul Forquer
2233 University Ave. NW
Canton, Oh 44709			
330-452-1701			
			
			
			
			
			
			


hello everbody!!!! its your favorite peace corp
trainee reporting from a cyber cafe in conakry guinea,
this is rare occurence and you should not try to reply
as it will be long time before i read it: sorry for
all the screwed puncuqtion i qm writing on frenc
keybord, if you see an odd plqced q it is becquse the
q qnd the a qre mixed up: After tqking French for
,onth I am convinced the French cannot do anything
without omitting logic; instead of having word for
ninety-nine they say; 4 20S-19. YOU SEE eighty is
acually four twenty, so add nineteen and you get 99.
,it would be much to easy just to think of word for99:
anyways; Guinea is greqt and i am having great time,
training is good; i am laerning soo much about plants
and how to tke of them, not to mentioned the
aforementioned french languge: hope everyone had good
halloween; we thats me and the 20 or so other
trainees, had good little party, hangovers in tropical
climates are a bitch, especially when you are sleeping
nexto a mosque and they wake everyone up at 5 am for
prayers;  well i do apologise for the lack of
communication, i have been busy and somewhat lazy,so
ihave not sent that many letters, it is not like ihave
received alot either; absolutely none so far, as far
as food goes i am eatig good don t come here if you dn
t like carbohydrates, i eat mostly rice spaghetti!,
and potatoes, and some stuff called manioc, for
breakfast i usually hve a peanut butter sandwich, the
peanut butter is all natural and fresh, it is really
good: anyways, njot much else to report i m doing
fine, and hopefully will call one of these days, i
know it is diificult to write a real letter and due to
anthrax it will tke longer than usual to get here,but
pleeeeeaaaaassssee send some letters, anywys im really
doing good and don;t woory i will be just fine:  mom
and dad when you taljk to th parents of the other
trainees tell them that iam fine and so is there
daughters:

well lost of love

josh forquer

corps de la paix
bp 1927 
conakry
guinea, west africa

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From fogmembership at yahoo.com  Sat Nov  3 11:44:00 2001
From: fogmembership at yahoo.com (FOG Membership)
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 08:44:00 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Guinea-list] Eid Stamp
Message-ID: <20011103164400.62480.qmail@web9702.mail.yahoo.com>

For those of you interested in showing support for
Islam and Muslims in America, you may want to look
into the new Eid stamp being offered by the United
States Postal Service.  Eid al-Fitr is the Muslim holy
day which marks the breaking of the fast at the end of
the month of Ramadan.

After much time and lobbying, the United States Postal
Service decided to issue an Eid Stamp on September 1,
2001, as part of their holiday series.  Unfortunately,
because of the September 11th tragedy, sales and
publicity regarding the stamp have suffered.  Postal
branches have been scared to display the stamp, as
they usually do with newly issued stamps, because they
are worried about a backlash.  The USPS is likely to
discontinue the stamp if the initial printing doesn't
sell out.

If you would like to purchase the Eid stamp, please
visit your local post office or buy on-line at:
http://shop.usps.com/cgi-bin/vsbv/postal_store_non_ssl/display_products/productDetail.jsp?OID=1045213&BV_UseBVCookie=yes.
 A link to the Eid Stamp site is near the bottom of
the page under the heading EID Greetings.

=====
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From soulouta at yahoo.com  Sat Nov  3 13:30:28 2001
From: soulouta at yahoo.com (Shirley Woodward)
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 10:30:28 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Guinea-list] Bin Laden and Sierra Leone
Message-ID: <20011103183028.65404.qmail@web10903.mail.yahoo.com>

Hmmm, maybe now the US will pay attention to the
horrors going on in Sierra Leone and Liberia...
-Shirley

Bin Laden is financed by 'blood diamonds' from Sierra
Leone 
Millions reaped from gems sold by rebel groups 
Douglas Farah, Washington Post


URL: 
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/11/02/MN105351.DTL



Freetown, Sierra Leone -- The terrorist network led by
Osama bin Laden
has reaped millions of dollars in the past three years
from the illicit
sale of diamonds mined by rebels in Sierra Leone,
according to U.S. and
European intelligence officials and two sources with
direct knowledge
of events. 

Diamond dealers working directly with men named by the
FBI as key 
operatives
in bin Laden's al Qaeda network bought gems from the
rebel 
Revolutionary
United Front at below-market prices and sold them for
large profits in
Europe. 

Investigators in the United States and Europe are
still trying to 
determine
how much money al Qaeda derived from its dealings with
the rebels, but
they estimated the amount to be in the millions. 

Since July, the sources said, the diamond dealers have
changed their
tactics, buying far more diamonds than usual and
paying premium prices
for them. Investigators say that is a strong
indication that al Qaeda,
perhaps anticipating its accounts would be frozen
after the Sept. 11
terrorist attacks in the United States, sought to
protect its money by
sinking it into gemstones, 

a commodity that is easy to hide, holds its value and
is almost 
untraceable.


"When prices go up, and supply goes up, it means
someone is seeking to
launder or hide cash, and we believe that is the case
here," a U.S. 
official
said. "Diamonds don't set off alarms at airports, they
can't be sniffed
by dogs, they are easy to hide, and (they) are highly
convertible to
cash. It makes perfect sense." 


REALIZATION RECENT
U.S. and European intelligence officials, overwhelmed
after Sept. 11
and with very few agents in West Africa, said they
realized only 
recently
how important the diamond flow was to funding al Qaeda
and other 
terrorist
organizations. 

"I now believe that to cut off al Qaeda funds and
laundering 
activities,
you have to cut off the diamond pipeline," said a
European 
investigator.
"We are talking about millions and maybe tens of
millions of dollars
in profits and laundering." 

The diamonds are mined by Revolutionary United Front
rebels, who became
infamous during the civil war for hacking off the arms
and legs of 
civilians
and abducting thousands of children and forcing them
to fight as 
combatants.
Sierra Leone's alluvial diamond fields were the
principal prize in this
country's brutal civil war, and they have been under
rebel control for
the past four years. 

Small packets of diamonds, often wrapped in rags or
plastic sheets, are
taken by senior rebel commanders across the porous
Liberian border to
Monrovia, 

according to sources. There, at a safe house protected
by the Liberian
government led by President Charles Taylor, the
diamonds are exchanged
for briefcases of cash brought by diamond dealers who
fly several times
a month from Belgium to Monrovia, where they are
escorted by special
state security through customs and immigration
control. 

The diamond dealers are selected by Ibrahim Bah, a
Libyan-trained 
former
Senegalese rebel and the Revolutionary United Front's
principal diamond
dealer, 

the sources said. The buyers' identities are known
only to Bah and a
few others. 


BATTLEFIELD CONTACTS
Bah's contacts and sympathies were forged on the
battlefield, according
to intelligence reports and sources who know him well.


After fighting with the Casamance separatist movement
in Senegal in the
1970s, Bah trained in Libya under the protection of
Moammar Khadafy,
the Libyan leader. Like bin Laden, he spent several
years in the early
1980s fighting alongside Muslim guerrillas against
Soviet forces in 
Afghanistan.


Bah then joined the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia
to fight Israeli
forces in southern Lebanon before returning to Libya
at the end of the
1980s. In Libya, Bah met and trained several men who
would go on to 
lead
rebellions in West Africa, including Taylor and Foday
Sankoh, the 
Revolutionary
United Front's founder. Bah himself later fought in
both Liberia and
Sierra Leone. 

Now, according to intelligence sources and two people
who have worked
with him, Bah acts as a conduit between senior rebel
commanders and the
buyers from both al Qaeda and Hezbollah, a Shiite
Muslim organization
linked to terrorist activities. 

Bah, who lives in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, declined
through 
intermediaries
to be interviewed for this article. 

A U.N. panel of experts estimated the market value of
rebel "blood 
diamonds"
sold in 1999 to be about $75 million. Sources in the
diamond trade 
estimate
that the rebels receive less than 10 percent of market
value for the
diamonds, paid mostly in weapons, food and medicine.
Taylor receives
a commission on each transaction in Monrovia, and Bah
and the other 
brokers
share the rest, according to sources involved the
dealings. 


MILLIONS CALLED UNTRACEABLE
"Even if only 10 percent went to terrorist
organizations, you are 
talking
about millions of dollars in virtually untraceable
funds, every year,"
said a European investigator. 

In September 1998, Bah arranged for Abdullah Ahmed
Abdullah to visit
Monrovia, according to two sources. Abdullah is
described on the FBI's
recent Most Wanted Terrorists poster as a "top bin
Laden adviser" who
"helped plan a number of al Qaeda's attacks." 

After spending one night in Monrovia, the sources
said, Bah and 
Abdullah
flew in a Liberian government helicopter to the town
of Foya, on the
border with Sierra Leone. There, Abdullah met with a
senior 
Revolutionary
United Front commander, Sam Bockerie, to discuss
buying diamonds on a
regular basis. 

A few weeks later, Bah arranged a visit for two more
al Qaeda 
operatives
now on the FBI list, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani and Fazul
Abdullah 
Mohammed,
the sources said. Together, they also met Bockerie,
taking him $100,000
in cash and receiving a parcel of diamonds in an
introductory deal, the
sources said. 

Ghailani, the FBI alleges, is an al Qaeda operative
from Tanzania who
helped buy a truck used in the 1998 bomb attack on the
U.S. Embassy in
Dar es Salaam. Fazul, from the Comoros Islands, is
identified by the
FBI as the "head of al Qaeda's Kenyan cell" and
trained at a bin Laden
camp. 




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From cidiouf at email.msn.com  Sun Nov  4 19:45:25 2001
From: cidiouf at email.msn.com (Cindy and Ivon DIOUF)
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 16:45:25 -0800
Subject: [Guinea-list] Bin Laden and Sierra Leone
References: <20011103183028.65404.qmail@web10903.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <000e01c16593$5077a220$e8146441@pavilion>

Shirley,

I truly wonder! My students and I (via our Amnesty International Group)
spent a year writing legislators about the Taliban and their crimes against
woman as well as some serious lobbying for an end to "bloody diamonds"
coming out of Sierra Leone.  It is truly unfortunate that none of our cries
were heard.  Moreover, I find it disgusting that only now the world cares to
look into the diamond issue and the gross neglect of human rights abuses and
abusers in Sierra Leone.  This truly affects the atmosphere in Guinea
according to several African human rights activists I met in St. Louis at
the Amnesty International Conference not the least of which was Ken
Saro-Wiwa's son, Ken Wiwa.   To take part in the fight and help protect our
friends in Africa, I urge you all to write to your legislators. It is
extremely easy to do simply by logging onto
http://amnestyusa.policy.net/diamonds
or
http://www.amnestyusa.org/

Take care,

Cindy Diouf
Kankalabe 96-98
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shirley Woodward" <soulouta at yahoo.com>
To: "Guinea List" <guinea-list at klatha.com>; "William R Woodward"
<woodward at cisunix.unh.edu>; "Muriel Pierce" <mpi7885415 at aol.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2001 10:30 AM
Subject: [Guinea-list] Bin Laden and Sierra Leone


> Hmmm, maybe now the US will pay attention to the
> horrors going on in Sierra Leone and Liberia...
> -Shirley
>
> Bin Laden is financed by 'blood diamonds' from Sierra
> Leone
> Millions reaped from gems sold by rebel groups
> Douglas Farah, Washington Post
>
>
> URL:
> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/11/02/MN105351.DTL
>
>
>
> Freetown, Sierra Leone -- The terrorist network led by
> Osama bin Laden
> has reaped millions of dollars in the past three years
> from the illicit
> sale of diamonds mined by rebels in Sierra Leone,
> according to U.S. and
> European intelligence officials and two sources with
> direct knowledge
> of events.
>
> Diamond dealers working directly with men named by the
> FBI as key
> operatives
> in bin Laden's al Qaeda network bought gems from the
> rebel
> Revolutionary
> United Front at below-market prices and sold them for
> large profits in
> Europe.
>
> Investigators in the United States and Europe are
> still trying to
> determine
> how much money al Qaeda derived from its dealings with
> the rebels, but
> they estimated the amount to be in the millions.
>
> Since July, the sources said, the diamond dealers have
> changed their
> tactics, buying far more diamonds than usual and
> paying premium prices
> for them. Investigators say that is a strong
> indication that al Qaeda,
> perhaps anticipating its accounts would be frozen
> after the Sept. 11
> terrorist attacks in the United States, sought to
> protect its money by
> sinking it into gemstones,
>
> a commodity that is easy to hide, holds its value and
> is almost
> untraceable.
>
>
> "When prices go up, and supply goes up, it means
> someone is seeking to
> launder or hide cash, and we believe that is the case
> here," a U.S.
> official
> said. "Diamonds don't set off alarms at airports, they
> can't be sniffed
> by dogs, they are easy to hide, and (they) are highly
> convertible to
> cash. It makes perfect sense."
>
>
> REALIZATION RECENT
> U.S. and European intelligence officials, overwhelmed
> after Sept. 11
> and with very few agents in West Africa, said they
> realized only
> recently
> how important the diamond flow was to funding al Qaeda
> and other
> terrorist
> organizations.
>
> "I now believe that to cut off al Qaeda funds and
> laundering
> activities,
> you have to cut off the diamond pipeline," said a
> European
> investigator.
> "We are talking about millions and maybe tens of
> millions of dollars
> in profits and laundering."
>
> The diamonds are mined by Revolutionary United Front
> rebels, who became
> infamous during the civil war for hacking off the arms
> and legs of
> civilians
> and abducting thousands of children and forcing them
> to fight as
> combatants.
> Sierra Leone's alluvial diamond fields were the
> principal prize in this
> country's brutal civil war, and they have been under
> rebel control for
> the past four years.
>
> Small packets of diamonds, often wrapped in rags or
> plastic sheets, are
> taken by senior rebel commanders across the porous
> Liberian border to
> Monrovia,
>
> according to sources. There, at a safe house protected
> by the Liberian
> government led by President Charles Taylor, the
> diamonds are exchanged
> for briefcases of cash brought by diamond dealers who
> fly several times
> a month from Belgium to Monrovia, where they are
> escorted by special
> state security through customs and immigration
> control.
>
> The diamond dealers are selected by Ibrahim Bah, a
> Libyan-trained
> former
> Senegalese rebel and the Revolutionary United Front's
> principal diamond
> dealer,
>
> the sources said. The buyers' identities are known
> only to Bah and a
> few others.
>
>
> BATTLEFIELD CONTACTS
> Bah's contacts and sympathies were forged on the
> battlefield, according
> to intelligence reports and sources who know him well.
>
>
> After fighting with the Casamance separatist movement
> in Senegal in the
> 1970s, Bah trained in Libya under the protection of
> Moammar Khadafy,
> the Libyan leader. Like bin Laden, he spent several
> years in the early
> 1980s fighting alongside Muslim guerrillas against
> Soviet forces in
> Afghanistan.
>
>
> Bah then joined the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia
> to fight Israeli
> forces in southern Lebanon before returning to Libya
> at the end of the
> 1980s. In Libya, Bah met and trained several men who
> would go on to
> lead
> rebellions in West Africa, including Taylor and Foday
> Sankoh, the
> Revolutionary
> United Front's founder. Bah himself later fought in
> both Liberia and
> Sierra Leone.
>
> Now, according to intelligence sources and two people
> who have worked
> with him, Bah acts as a conduit between senior rebel
> commanders and the
> buyers from both al Qaeda and Hezbollah, a Shiite
> Muslim organization
> linked to terrorist activities.
>
> Bah, who lives in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, declined
> through
> intermediaries
> to be interviewed for this article.
>
> A U.N. panel of experts estimated the market value of
> rebel "blood
> diamonds"
> sold in 1999 to be about $75 million. Sources in the
> diamond trade
> estimate
> that the rebels receive less than 10 percent of market
> value for the
> diamonds, paid mostly in weapons, food and medicine.
> Taylor receives
> a commission on each transaction in Monrovia, and Bah
> and the other
> brokers
> share the rest, according to sources involved the
> dealings.
>
>
> MILLIONS CALLED UNTRACEABLE
> "Even if only 10 percent went to terrorist
> organizations, you are
> talking
> about millions of dollars in virtually untraceable
> funds, every year,"
> said a European investigator.
>
> In September 1998, Bah arranged for Abdullah Ahmed
> Abdullah to visit
> Monrovia, according to two sources. Abdullah is
> described on the FBI's
> recent Most Wanted Terrorists poster as a "top bin
> Laden adviser" who
> "helped plan a number of al Qaeda's attacks."
>
> After spending one night in Monrovia, the sources
> said, Bah and
> Abdullah
> flew in a Liberian government helicopter to the town
> of Foya, on the
> border with Sierra Leone. There, Abdullah met with a
> senior
> Revolutionary
> United Front commander, Sam Bockerie, to discuss
> buying diamonds on a
> regular basis.
>
> A few weeks later, Bah arranged a visit for two more
> al Qaeda
> operatives
> now on the FBI list, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani and Fazul
> Abdullah
> Mohammed,
> the sources said. Together, they also met Bockerie,
> taking him $100,000
> in cash and receiving a parcel of diamonds in an
> introductory deal, the
> sources said.
>
> Ghailani, the FBI alleges, is an al Qaeda operative
> from Tanzania who
> helped buy a truck used in the 1998 bomb attack on the
> U.S. Embassy in
> Dar es Salaam. Fazul, from the Comoros Islands, is
> identified by the
> FBI as the "head of al Qaeda's Kenyan cell" and
> trained at a bin Laden
> camp.
>
>
>
>
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From SaintAnn at aol.com  Sun Nov  4 17:54:50 2001
From: SaintAnn at aol.com (SaintAnn at aol.com)
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 17:54:50 EST
Subject: [Guinea-list] Re: Guinea-list digest, Vol 1 #297 - 2 msgs
Message-ID: <12e.70ab547.2917213a@aol.com>

  I would hope NO PCV or RPCV would buy those stamps. We all need to buy 
stamps with the USA flag on them... Huh!!!.. Ann Hannibal



From scottsackett at hotmail.com  Sun Nov  4 23:20:34 2001
From: scottsackett at hotmail.com (Scott Sackett)
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2001 23:20:34 
Subject: [Guinea-list] Re: Eid al Fitr stamps
Message-ID: <F2470Vsv7RRZFpBRwBo000204ea@hotmail.com>

I disagree with your sentiment, Ann...or perhaps you're being facetious and 
I took you literally.  Eid al Fitr is an important Islamic holiday, and has 
no relation to the events of the past two months.  Respecting the Islamic 
faith and supporting the United States are not mutually exclusive 
sentiments.

Thanks to Rebecca Konrad for the heads-up.  Given that they're not on 
display at my usual PO, I would have missed them entirely.

Best wishes to all--
Scott Sackett
Dalaba 96-98

>From: SaintAnn at aol.com
>To: guinea-list at klatha.com
>Subject: [Guinea-list] Re: Guinea-list digest, Vol 1 #297 - 2 msgs
>Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 17:54:50 EST
>
>   I would hope NO PCV or RPCV would buy those stamps. We all need to buy
>stamps with the USA flag on them... Huh!!!.. Ann Hannibal
>
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From fogwebmaster at yahoo.com  Sun Nov  4 18:45:05 2001
From: fogwebmaster at yahoo.com (FOG Web Admin)
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 15:45:05 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Guinea-list] Bin Laden and Sierra Leone
In-Reply-To: <000e01c16593$5077a220$e8146441@pavilion>
Message-ID: <20011104234505.58387.qmail@web9903.mail.yahoo.com>

Wasn't the blood diamonds act passed by the House and
forwarded on to the Senate (or vice versa, I can never
remember our political system).

Steph

--- Cindy and Ivon DIOUF <cidiouf at email.msn.com>
wrote:
> Shirley,
> 
> I truly wonder! My students and I (via our Amnesty
> International Group)
> spent a year writing legislators about the Taliban
> and their crimes against
> woman as well as some serious lobbying for an end to
> "bloody diamonds"
> coming out of Sierra Leone.  It is truly unfortunate
> that none of our cries
> were heard.  Moreover, I find it disgusting that
> only now the world cares to
> look into the diamond issue and the gross neglect of
> human rights abuses and
> abusers in Sierra Leone.  This truly affects the
> atmosphere in Guinea
> according to several African human rights activists
> I met in St. Louis at
> the Amnesty International Conference not the least
> of which was Ken
> Saro-Wiwa's son, Ken Wiwa.   To take part in the
> fight and help protect our
> friends in Africa, I urge you all to write to your
> legislators. It is
> extremely easy to do simply by logging onto
> http://amnestyusa.policy.net/diamonds
> or
> http://www.amnestyusa.org/
> 
> Take care,
> 
> Cindy Diouf
> Kankalabe 96-98
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Shirley Woodward" <soulouta at yahoo.com>
> To: "Guinea List" <guinea-list at klatha.com>; "William
> R Woodward"
> <woodward at cisunix.unh.edu>; "Muriel Pierce"
> <mpi7885415 at aol.com>
> Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2001 10:30 AM
> Subject: [Guinea-list] Bin Laden and Sierra Leone
> 
> 
> > Hmmm, maybe now the US will pay attention to the
> > horrors going on in Sierra Leone and Liberia...
> > -Shirley
> >
> > Bin Laden is financed by 'blood diamonds' from
> Sierra
> > Leone
> > Millions reaped from gems sold by rebel groups
> > Douglas Farah, Washington Post
> >
> >
> > URL:
> >
>
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/11/02/MN105351.DTL
> >
> >
> >
> > Freetown, Sierra Leone -- The terrorist network
> led by
> > Osama bin Laden
> > has reaped millions of dollars in the past three
> years
> > from the illicit
> > sale of diamonds mined by rebels in Sierra Leone,
> > according to U.S. and
> > European intelligence officials and two sources
> with
> > direct knowledge
> > of events.
> >
> > Diamond dealers working directly with men named by
> the
> > FBI as key
> > operatives
> > in bin Laden's al Qaeda network bought gems from
> the
> > rebel
> > Revolutionary
> > United Front at below-market prices and sold them
> for
> > large profits in
> > Europe.
> >
> > Investigators in the United States and Europe are
> > still trying to
> > determine
> > how much money al Qaeda derived from its dealings
> with
> > the rebels, but
> > they estimated the amount to be in the millions.
> >
> > Since July, the sources said, the diamond dealers
> have
> > changed their
> > tactics, buying far more diamonds than usual and
> > paying premium prices
> > for them. Investigators say that is a strong
> > indication that al Qaeda,
> > perhaps anticipating its accounts would be frozen
> > after the Sept. 11
> > terrorist attacks in the United States, sought to
> > protect its money by
> > sinking it into gemstones,
> >
> > a commodity that is easy to hide, holds its value
> and
> > is almost
> > untraceable.
> >
> >
> > "When prices go up, and supply goes up, it means
> > someone is seeking to
> > launder or hide cash, and we believe that is the
> case
> > here," a U.S.
> > official
> > said. "Diamonds don't set off alarms at airports,
> they
> > can't be sniffed
> > by dogs, they are easy to hide, and (they) are
> highly
> > convertible to
> > cash. It makes perfect sense."
> >
> >
> > REALIZATION RECENT
> > U.S. and European intelligence officials,
> overwhelmed
> > after Sept. 11
> > and with very few agents in West Africa, said they
> > realized only
> > recently
> > how important the diamond flow was to funding al
> Qaeda
> > and other
> > terrorist
> > organizations.
> >
> > "I now believe that to cut off al Qaeda funds and
> > laundering
> > activities,
> > you have to cut off the diamond pipeline," said a
> > European
> > investigator.
> > "We are talking about millions and maybe tens of
> > millions of dollars
> > in profits and laundering."
> >
> > The diamonds are mined by Revolutionary United
> Front
> > rebels, who became
> > infamous during the civil war for hacking off the
> arms
> > and legs of
> > civilians
> > and abducting thousands of children and forcing
> them
> > to fight as
> > combatants.
> > Sierra Leone's alluvial diamond fields were the
> > principal prize in this
> > country's brutal civil war, and they have been
> under
> > rebel control for
> > the past four years.
> >
> > Small packets of diamonds, often wrapped in rags
> or
> > plastic sheets, are
> > taken by senior rebel commanders across the porous
> > Liberian border to
> > Monrovia,
> >
> > according to sources. There, at a safe house
> protected
> > by the Liberian
> > government led by President Charles Taylor, the
> > diamonds are exchanged
> > for briefcases of cash brought by diamond dealers
> who
> > fly several times
> > a month from Belgium to Monrovia, where they are
> > escorted by special
> > state security through customs and immigration
> > control.
> >
> > The diamond dealers are selected by Ibrahim Bah, a
> > Libyan-trained
> > former
> > Senegalese rebel and the Revolutionary United
> Front's
> > principal diamond
> > dealer,
> >
> > the sources said. The buyers' identities are known
> > only to Bah and a
> > few others.
> >
> 
=== message truncated ===


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From cidiouf at email.msn.com  Sun Nov  4 20:43:30 2001
From: cidiouf at email.msn.com (Cindy and Ivon DIOUF)
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 17:43:30 -0800
Subject: [Guinea-list] Re: Eid al Fitr stamps
References: <F2470Vsv7RRZFpBRwBo000204ea@hotmail.com>
Message-ID: <000b01c1659b$47b27ae0$9b166441@pavilion>

Thanks a lot Scott,

Let's not forget that the prayers and love of our muslim friends in Guinea
kept and continue to keep volunteers safe. Being from a very strong Catholic
background, I embraced (in spirit) the faith of my muslim friends in Guinea
and I can guarantee that right now, they continue to pray for me.  I have
purchased the Eid stamps twice already and sincerely hope that our muslim
friends in Guinea have a wonderful and meaningful Ramadam. I echo your
thoughts Ousmane Camara!

Love,

Cindy Diouf
Kankalabe 96-98
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Sackett" <scottsackett at hotmail.com>
To: <Guinea-list at klatha.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2001 11:20 PM
Subject: [Guinea-list] Re: Eid al Fitr stamps


> I disagree with your sentiment, Ann...or perhaps you're being facetious
and
> I took you literally.  Eid al Fitr is an important Islamic holiday, and
has
> no relation to the events of the past two months.  Respecting the Islamic
> faith and supporting the United States are not mutually exclusive
> sentiments.
>
> Thanks to Rebecca Konrad for the heads-up.  Given that they're not on
> display at my usual PO, I would have missed them entirely.
>
> Best wishes to all--
> Scott Sackett
> Dalaba 96-98
>
> >From: SaintAnn at aol.com
> >To: guinea-list at klatha.com
> >Subject: [Guinea-list] Re: Guinea-list digest, Vol 1 #297 - 2 msgs
> >Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 17:54:50 EST
> >
> >   I would hope NO PCV or RPCV would buy those stamps. We all need to buy
> >stamps with the USA flag on them... Huh!!!.. Ann Hannibal
> >
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From forquerp at att.net  Sun Nov  4 20:08:44 2001
From: forquerp at att.net (forquerp at att.net)
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 01:08:44 +0000
Subject: [Guinea-list] Eid
Message-ID: <20011105010844.SVZF4964.mtiwmhc26.worldnet.att.net@webmail.worldnet.att.net>

Dear FOGs,

I got a phone call from Josh today, he sounded great! To 
the question "How do you like it?" his instant response 
was "I love it" in an enthusiastic voice unusual for 
Josh.

I concur with the positive thoughts about Eid. I will 
order the stamps myself. I have made it a habit to wish 
Salaam Alaykem to Moslems - I get the biggest smiles and 
sincere thankyou's. I was once in Egypt for Ramadan - it 
was fascinating.


Regards,


Paul Forquer
2233 University Ave. NW
Canton, Oh 44709			
330-452-1701			
			
			
			
			
			
			
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> stamps with the USA flag on them... Huh!!!.. Ann Hannibal
> 
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From cidiouf at email.msn.com  Mon Nov  5 01:14:18 2001
From: cidiouf at email.msn.com (Cindy and Ivon DIOUF)
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 22:14:18 -0800
Subject: [Guinea-list] Bin Laden and Sierra Leone
References: <20011104234505.58387.qmail@web9903.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <002b01c165c1$394c9be0$9b166441@pavilion>

Steph and others,

Read on about the current status of the clean diamonds act: message from
Amnesty dated October 24, 2001

Thanks Steph for reminding me that yes, indeed progress has been made.

Peace, Cindy

The Senate has adopted clean diamonds legislation.  Now it's up to Chairman
Bill Thomas of the House Ways and Means committee to mark-up and send the
clean diamonds bill to the House floor.  Please email Chairman Thomas today
and urge your Representative to contact the Chairman, too!

Conflict diamonds are fueling war and human rights abuse across Africa.  By
passing clean diamonds legislation, Congress can help save countless
innocent lives across the continent.



Visit http://amnestyusa.policy.net/diamonds


----- Original Message -----
From: "FOG Web Admin" <fogwebmaster at yahoo.com>
To: "Cindy and Ivon DIOUF" <cidiouf at email.msn.com>; "Shirley Woodward"
<soulouta at yahoo.com>
Cc: <guinea-list at Klatha.Com>
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2001 3:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Guinea-list] Bin Laden and Sierra Leone


> Wasn't the blood diamonds act passed by the House and
> forwarded on to the Senate (or vice versa, I can never
> remember our political system).
>
> Steph
>
> --- Cindy and Ivon DIOUF <cidiouf at email.msn.com>
> wrote:
> > Shirley,
> >
> > I truly wonder! My students and I (via our Amnesty
> > International Group)
> > spent a year writing legislators about the Taliban
> > and their crimes against
> > woman as well as some serious lobbying for an end to
> > "bloody diamonds"
> > coming out of Sierra Leone.  It is truly unfortunate
> > that none of our cries
> > were heard.  Moreover, I find it disgusting that
> > only now the world cares to
> > look into the diamond issue and the gross neglect of
> > human rights abuses and
> > abusers in Sierra Leone.  This truly affects the
> > atmosphere in Guinea
> > according to several African human rights activists
> > I met in St. Louis at
> > the Amnesty International Conference not the least
> > of which was Ken
> > Saro-Wiwa's son, Ken Wiwa.   To take part in the
> > fight and help protect our
> > friends in Africa, I urge you all to write to your
> > legislators. It is
> > extremely easy to do simply by logging onto
> > http://amnestyusa.policy.net/diamonds
> > or
> > http://www.amnestyusa.org/
> >
> > Take care,
> >
> > Cindy Diouf
> > Kankalabe 96-98
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Shirley Woodward" <soulouta at yahoo.com>
> > To: "Guinea List" <guinea-list at klatha.com>; "William
> > R Woodward"
> > <woodward at cisunix.unh.edu>; "Muriel Pierce"
> > <mpi7885415 at aol.com>
> > Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2001 10:30 AM
> > Subject: [Guinea-list] Bin Laden and Sierra Leone
> >
> >
> > > Hmmm, maybe now the US will pay attention to the
> > > horrors going on in Sierra Leone and Liberia...
> > > -Shirley
> > >
> > > Bin Laden is financed by 'blood diamonds' from
> > Sierra
> > > Leone
> > > Millions reaped from gems sold by rebel groups
> > > Douglas Farah, Washington Post
> > >
> > >
> > > URL:
> > >
> >
> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/11/02/MN105351.DTL
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Freetown, Sierra Leone -- The terrorist network
> > led by
> > > Osama bin Laden
> > > has reaped millions of dollars in the past three
> > years
> > > from the illicit
> > > sale of diamonds mined by rebels in Sierra Leone,
> > > according to U.S. and
> > > European intelligence officials and two sources
> > with
> > > direct knowledge
> > > of events.
> > >
> > > Diamond dealers working directly with men named by
> > the
> > > FBI as key
> > > operatives
> > > in bin Laden's al Qaeda network bought gems from
> > the
> > > rebel
> > > Revolutionary
> > > United Front at below-market prices and sold them
> > for
> > > large profits in
> > > Europe.
> > >
> > > Investigators in the United States and Europe are
> > > still trying to
> > > determine
> > > how much money al Qaeda derived from its dealings
> > with
> > > the rebels, but
> > > they estimated the amount to be in the millions.
> > >
> > > Since July, the sources said, the diamond dealers
> > have
> > > changed their
> > > tactics, buying far more diamonds than usual and
> > > paying premium prices
> > > for them. Investigators say that is a strong
> > > indication that al Qaeda,
> > > perhaps anticipating its accounts would be frozen
> > > after the Sept. 11
> > > terrorist attacks in the United States, sought to
> > > protect its money by
> > > sinking it into gemstones,
> > >
> > > a commodity that is easy to hide, holds its value
> > and
> > > is almost
> > > untraceable.
> > >
> > >
> > > "When prices go up, and supply goes up, it means
> > > someone is seeking to
> > > launder or hide cash, and we believe that is the
> > case
> > > here," a U.S.
> > > official
> > > said. "Diamonds don't set off alarms at airports,
> > they
> > > can't be sniffed
> > > by dogs, they are easy to hide, and (they) are
> > highly
> > > convertible to
> > > cash. It makes perfect sense."
> > >
> > >
> > > REALIZATION RECENT
> > > U.S. and European intelligence officials,
> > overwhelmed
> > > after Sept. 11
> > > and with very few agents in West Africa, said they
> > > realized only
> > > recently
> > > how important the diamond flow was to funding al
> > Qaeda
> > > and other
> > > terrorist
> > > organizations.
> > >
> > > "I now believe that to cut off al Qaeda funds and
> > > laundering
> > > activities,
> > > you have to cut off the diamond pipeline," said a
> > > European
> > > investigator.
> > > "We are talking about millions and maybe tens of
> > > millions of dollars
> > > in profits and laundering."
> > >
> > > The diamonds are mined by Revolutionary United
> > Front
> > > rebels, who became
> > > infamous during the civil war for hacking off the
> > arms
> > > and legs of
> > > civilians
> > > and abducting thousands of children and forcing
> > them
> > > to fight as
> > > combatants.
> > > Sierra Leone's alluvial diamond fields were the
> > > principal prize in this
> > > country's brutal civil war, and they have been
> > under
> > > rebel control for
> > > the past four years.
> > >
> > > Small packets of diamonds, often wrapped in rags
> > or
> > > plastic sheets, are
> > > taken by senior rebel commanders across the porous
> > > Liberian border to
> > > Monrovia,
> > >
> > > according to sources. There, at a safe house
> > protected
> > > by the Liberian
> > > government led by President Charles Taylor, the
> > > diamonds are exchanged
> > > for briefcases of cash brought by diamond dealers
> > who
> > > fly several times
> > > a month from Belgium to Monrovia, where they are
> > > escorted by special
> > > state security through customs and immigration
> > > control.
> > >
> > > The diamond dealers are selected by Ibrahim Bah, a
> > > Libyan-trained
> > > former
> > > Senegalese rebel and the Revolutionary United
> > Front's
> > > principal diamond
> > > dealer,
> > >
> > > the sources said. The buyers' identities are known
> > > only to Bah and a
> > > few others.
> > >
> >
> === message truncated ===
>
>
> =====
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From Phoenshell at aol.com  Mon Nov  5 11:43:52 2001
From: Phoenshell at aol.com (Phoenshell at aol.com)
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 11:43:52 EST
Subject: [Guinea-list] Re: Guinea-list digest, Vol 1 #297 - 2 msgs
Message-ID: <cb.18a6b8c9.29181bc8@aol.com>

Please unsubscribe me.



From saabrian at yahoo.com  Mon Nov  5 12:10:21 2001
From: saabrian at yahoo.com (Brian Farenell)
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 09:10:21 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Guinea-list] Election Day
Message-ID: <20011105171021.31022.qmail@web11702.mail.yahoo.com>

I'd like to encourage everyone on the list to commit a
real act of patriotism tommorow and go to the polls to
vote. If our troops are in a battle to protect our
democratic freedoms, as the president claims, then we
should not fail to exercice those freedoms.
Brian

--- SaintAnn at aol.com wrote:
> From: SaintAnn at aol.com
> To: guinea-list at klatha.com
> Subject: [Guinea-list] Re: Guinea-list digest, Vol 1
> #297 - 2 msgs
> Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 17:54:50 EST
> 
>   I would hope NO PCV or RPCV would buy those
> stamps. We all need to buy 
> stamps with the USA flag on them... Huh!!!.. Ann
> Hannibal
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From saabrian at yahoo.com  Mon Nov  5 15:00:10 2001
From: saabrian at yahoo.com (Brian Farenell)
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 12:00:10 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Guinea-list] Air Afrique
Message-ID: <20011105200010.4103.qmail@web11705.mail.yahoo.com>

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1632000/1632681.stm

The Air Afrique strike ends but with only three planes
left in its possession, will it matter?

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Mon site web: http://www.angelfire.com/ak/SaaBrian/indexfrn.html 
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From fogwebmaster at yahoo.com  Mon Nov  5 15:39:43 2001
From: fogwebmaster at yahoo.com (FOG Web Admin)
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 12:39:43 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Guinea-list] Monthly listserv notice
Message-ID: <20011105203943.2347.qmail@web9901.mail.yahoo.com>


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From saabrian at yahoo.com  Tue Nov  6 09:59:51 2001
From: saabrian at yahoo.com (Brian Farenell)
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 06:59:51 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Guinea-list] Sabena walkout
Message-ID: <20011106145951.44250.qmail@web11703.mail.yahoo.com>

http://biz.yahoo.com/apf/011106/sabena_1.html

I know Sabena is another airline that flies into
Conakry. With Air Afrique and Sabena out, it doesn't
leave many intl airlines with flights into Guinea.

Brian

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From eelan at worldnet.att.net  Tue Nov  6 19:06:49 2001
From: eelan at worldnet.att.net (Sherman Wallis)
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 16:06:49 -0800
Subject: [Guinea-list] pharmapur
Message-ID: <009801c16720$2ef35d40$cdd4510c@oemcomputer>

Hi,

I am hoping that the PCV or RPVC that sent me the pharmapur will be find this note.  I was so surprised!!  Thank you.  There was no return name or note inside.  But my husband and I were so excited to receive the soap we love so much.  I have not been able to obtain it from oversees.  I have written the addresses on the package but there has been no reply.

So,  to whom ever remembered how much I loved the soap from Guinea,  Thank you.  I often think of my month's "vacation" with much joy.


Celia Engkilterra...Shad Engkilterra's, RPCV mom
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From caregan at ngs.org  Wed Nov  7 09:20:32 2001
From: caregan at ngs.org (Carrie Regan)
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 09:20:32 -0500
Subject: [Guinea-list] Report on Guinea's diamonds
Message-ID: <85256AFD.004E6592.00@NOTESCOM1.NGS.ORG>


I haven't pulled this up yet, but it looks interesting.  Note that the URL is
two lines long.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

"Destablizing Guinea: Diamonds, Charles Taylor and the Potential for
Wider Humanitarian Catastrophe" by Lansana Gberie.

This 16-page report is Occasional Paper #1 of the Diamonds and Human
Security Project. The report traces the development of Guinea's diamond
industry from the first discoveries in the 1930s to the development of
an export certification scheme in 2001. It discusses the devastating
attacks on Guinea by Sierra Leonean rebels in 2000 and 2001, arguing
that the objective was part of a wider scheme to destabilize the region
and to further Liberian President Charles Taylor's regional economic
ambitions, in which diamonds play a major role. The report is available
electronically on the Internet at:
http://action.web.ca/home/pac/readingroom.shtml?AA_SL_Session=aedec8ae1f
82291641845c0ef763b2fa&sh_itm=411a64c349f4af4eec4068239c3504c2
(Sorry for the length of the URL.)

It is available in print format for $5.00 from:
Partnership Africa Canada
323 Chapel St.
Ottawa, ON K1N 7Z2

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -





From anemathews at mediaone.net  Wed Nov  7 16:16:31 2001
From: anemathews at mediaone.net (Art Mathews)
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 16:16:31 -0500
Subject: [Guinea-list] Helping Guinean students with US education
Message-ID: <B80F0EDF.13F5%anemathews@mediaone.net>

On our visit to Guinea this summer we met a handful of students who were
interested in attending college in the US.  Does anyone have any contacts
here with information on scholarships available to foreign students and all
that is entailed with obtaining students visas?  Are there colleges that
have had success with Guinean students or organizations that might sponsor a
student? 

Art Mathews
anemathews at mediaone.net  



From ikaba at yahoo.com  Wed Nov  7 21:36:00 2001
From: ikaba at yahoo.com (Khalil Fiman Kaba)
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 18:36:00 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Guinea-list] Helping Guinean students with US education
In-Reply-To: <B80F0EDF.13F5%anemathews@mediaone.net>
Message-ID: <20011108023600.45587.qmail@web13906.mail.yahoo.com>

Hello Art,

On this subject

At the undergraduate level, a scholarship is almost an
impossibility unless the beneficiary
1- has proven genius-like capabilities ( MIT material)
or 
2- is from a group with solid community ties in the US
( Indian, Chinese, Polish, Italian, Saudi etc...) to
get a scholarship that's available to potential
students from the country of Origin.

And when scholarships are available they usually come
in the form of 
a- OUT OF STATE FEE WAIVER ( International students
being non-residents, they pay out of state fees
regardless of where their residence is in the US) at
least at Public universities or 
b- fraternal  and honor society scholarships ( Phi
Beta Kappa, Golden Key etc...)

At the graduate level, things are a little easier
thanks mainly to Graduate, Research or Teaching
Assistanships.

A few extremely competitive pre-  and post-doctoral
fellowships are also available from non-profit
organizations ( Ford, Sloan, Rockefeller..
Foundations)

In all cases an Affidavit of Support ( covering
tuition, fees, and cost of living expenses) along with
a BANK STATEMENT SHOWING THE FUNDS AVAILABILITY must
be provided to the consulate before A  Student visa (
F1 USUALLY) is delivered. Some of the requirements may
have changed in the wake of the 9/11 tragedy since
some of the perpetrators had student visas.

You can try these sites for more informations

http://www.internationalscholarships.com
http://www.internationalstudent.com


Khalil

--- Art Mathews <anemathews at mediaone.net> wrote:
> On our visit to Guinea this summer we met a handful
> of students who were
> interested in attending college in the US.  Does
> anyone have any contacts
> here with information on scholarships available to
> foreign students and all
> that is entailed with obtaining students visas?  Are
> there colleges that
> have had success with Guinean students or
> organizations that might sponsor a
> student? 
> 
> Art Mathews
> anemathews at mediaone.net  
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From saabrian at yahoo.com  Thu Nov  8 17:22:28 2001
From: saabrian at yahoo.com (Brian Farenell)
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 14:22:28 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Guinea-list] Amnesty and Guinea referendum
Message-ID: <20011108222228.60589.qmail@web11706.mail.yahoo.com>

My apologies if this was sent already but I tried to
send it before and it didn't seem to work.

Amnesty Int'l comments on the situation concerning the
referendum in Guinea.

CNN ARTICLE ON AMNESTY STATEMENT
http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/africa/11/07/guinea.referendum.ap/index.html

AMNESTY PRESS RELEASE
http://www.web.amnesty.org/web/news.nsf/WebAll/09A28800B1C4B57580256AFC004425AC?OpenDocument

Again, sorry if you get this twice.
Brian

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From saabrian at yahoo.com  Fri Nov  9 08:48:32 2001
From: saabrian at yahoo.com (Brian Farenell)
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 05:48:32 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Guinea-list] who's going to Guinea?
Message-ID: <20011109134832.22822.qmail@web11702.mail.yahoo.com>

If you who are looking for a secure way to send mail
to or via a PCV in Guinea, check out my "Who's Going
to Guinea?" page. It has names and emails of people
who are going in the near future and have offered to
carry courrier. The link is:

http://www.angelfire.com/ak/SaaBrian/voyage.html

If you are going to Guinea in the next few months and
would to offer to carry mail, please contact me.

Thanks,
Brian

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My homepage: http://www.angelfire.com/ak/SaaBrian
Ma page d'accueil: http://www.angelfire.com/ak/SaaBrian/indexfrn.html 
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From abonda at yahoo.com  Fri Nov  9 10:51:36 2001
From: abonda at yahoo.com (Dan Trevino)
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 07:51:36 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Guinea-list] I am offering to carry letters to PCVs in Guinea.
Message-ID: <20011109155136.35500.qmail@web14503.mail.yahoo.com>

Hi all,

I am leaving on Dec. 11th for Guinea to attend a
3-week jembe drumming school run by Mamady Keita (he's
in the Conakry area). I was in Guinea 5 years ago for
the same purpose.

I can carry with me letters and small packages
(Christmas/Hanukkah presents?), only if you will tell
me what is in them for security reasons, for PCVs in
Guinea. Send me an e-mail message: abonda at yahoo.com.

Peace,
Dan Trevino
State College, PA


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From saabrian at yahoo.com  Fri Nov  9 11:42:06 2001
From: saabrian at yahoo.com (Brian Farenell)
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 08:42:06 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Guinea-list] Blood diamonds, al-Qaeda and a few prominent Americans
Message-ID: <20011109164206.95154.qmail@web11705.mail.yahoo.com>

If you thought blood diamonds only affected Africans,
check out:
http://www.tnr.com/111901/lizza111901.html

Brian



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My homepage: http://www.angelfire.com/ak/SaaBrian
Ma page d'accueil: http://www.angelfire.com/ak/SaaBrian/indexfrn.html 
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From abonda at yahoo.com  Fri Nov  9 13:25:03 2001
From: abonda at yahoo.com (Dan Trevino)
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 10:25:03 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Guinea-list] Any written/printed aids for learning Malinke?
Message-ID: <20011109182503.51556.qmail@web14510.mail.yahoo.com>

Hello all, 

Me again (Dan Trevino). I plan on learning some basic Malinke while I am in Guinea for 3 weeks. Alhough I will recruit someone there to teach me, I was hoping to gain some familiarity with the language before I leave on Dec. 11th. I have been searching, without success, for written/printed resources on learning Malinke (e.g. language text, English-Malinke dictionary). Does anyone know of resources like these? 

Peace, 
Dan Trevino.......


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From register at washingtonpost.com  Fri Nov  9 18:19:03 2001
From: register at washingtonpost.com (register at washingtonpost.com)
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 18:19:03 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [Guinea-list] A washingtonpost.com article from marlyatou@hotmail.com
Message-ID: <200111092319.SAA21675@sane2.washingtonpost.com>

You have been sent this message from marlyatou at hotmail.com as a courtesy of the Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com).

Read on to understand a little more about the man that George W. wants to run the Peace Corps. 

To view the entire article, go to http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64977-2001Nov8.html

Peace Corps Deserves Better Than GOP Deadwood

By Judy Mann


At a time when the United States needs friends abroad more than ever, President Bush has nominated to head the Peace Corps a discredited California party hack whose principal public achievement to date has been to help bankrupt the richest county in his state.

The nomination of Gaddi H. Vasquez has aroused a storm of protest among former Peace Corps volunteers, a formidable group of people who have made names for themselves in every rank of American life. And they, perhaps more than other Americans, know the abysmal conditions of poverty and hopelessness that spawn terrorism. 

Mystery writer Richard Lipez (pen name Richard Stevenson), a volunteer in Ethiopia  from 1962 to 1964, hit the nail on the head in an Internet message to other volunteers:

"Suddenly the Peace Corps is more important than ever. Wrenched horribly out of its long, isolationist reverie, the United States is now attempting to engage the larger, messy, complex, often violent rest-of-the-world in ways the Peace Corps has been learning about and eagerly grappling with for more than 40 years."

Lipez, who also writes editorials for the Berkshire Eagle in Massachusetts, went on to say: "Far more than just military . . . this multifaceted re-engagement with the rest of the planet needs a Peace Corps that is as brave, committed and vital as ever. That means it also requires a Peace Corps leader with judgment, imagination and vision. Sadly . . . Gaddi Vasquez is not that person."

 The Peace Corps has been a crown jewel in our ever-diminishing foreign aid efforts. With 7,000 volunteers a year, it has taught and served people in nearly 80 of the poorest and most-troubled countries in the world. Volunteers from the get-go won respect from host countries, and they won respect for the United States.

So who does Bush nominate to head the agency? Somebody who is singularly unqualified to head anything, let alone the Peace Corps. Vasquez was a member of the notorious Orange County Board of Supervisors that fiddled while the county lost $1.64 billion in risky investments. The news became public in December 1994, and the Board of Supervisors decided to file for bankruptcy. It became the largest municipal bankruptcy in the nation's history.

A month later, Vasquez was named chairman of the Board of Supervisors. He resigned nine months later, just a step ahead of a recall effort. The hard-shell conservative Orange County Register, normally no critic of right-wing functionaries, said that "too often" Vasquez "has been a slave to the 'finger in the wind' impulse, emerging as someone always running to board the caboose rather than staking out a place in the locomotive's cabin. . . . [Trying] to pin him down on a strategy for plowing us out of bankruptcy without plowing taxpayers deeper into the hole has been an exercise in exasperating frustration."

The Register noted that Vasquez had a campaign war chest of $300,000 or more and asked what he planned to do with the money: "Will he return it to donors? Or give it to the county treasury?" Turns out that Vasquez did neither, and so in the election year 2000 he had $100,000 to give to the Republican National Committee. That has bought him a ticket to Washington. 

Vasquez brings with him no international experience, no experience running a large agency and no history of humanitarian commitments. His record argues strongly that he should not be put in charge of an agency with a $275 million annual budget.

Lipez, in his letter (posted at www.peacecorpswriters.org), makes a further case against him because as a county supervisor he voted twice to deny housing rights and job protections to people with HIV/AIDS. "A sizable part of the work now performed by the Peace Corps involves AIDS education and prevention, especially in Africa," Lipez says. With that record, he argues, Vasquez is not the person to head the Peace Corps.

Vasquez's confirmation hearing will probably be next week. At the same time, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will consider the nomination of Josephine "Jody" Olsen to be deputy director of the Peace Corps. The contrast in qualifications is about as sharp as the contrast in Bush's and Vice President Cheney's.

Olsen is a former volunteer who then joined the Peace Corps staff and became a country director of Peace Corps activities. She later served as chief of staff to then-Peace Corps Director Paul Coverdell, whom Bush's father dug out of the obscurity of the Georgia Senate. 

Olsen is highly regarded within the Peace Corps community, and the administration no doubt hopes that her nomination as deputy will somehow make the nomination of Vasquez more palatable. It doesn't. 

Not since the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe after World War II has there been a more urgent need for the United States to reach out to the world's underdeveloped nations. 

Sargent Shriver, the founding director of the Peace Corps, recalled the agency's spirit and its mission when he spoke at a Sept. 22 peace vigil with returned volunteers: 

"We risked everything in a leap of faith that the volunteers would respond favorably to our call for peace. We opposed the idea that war is inevitable." They believed peace could be achieved "through service, not through economic strength or military power."

The Peace Corps has been an agency of goodwill. It is respected around the world. Bush ought to tell the world that he takes its work and its mission so seriously that he is going to put a top-flight person in charge of it. 

Instead, he is telling the world that the Peace Corps is of so little consequence to him that he can afford to dump a second-rater with a suspect record into the director's chair.

  







From fogwebmaster at yahoo.com  Fri Nov  9 20:10:20 2001
From: fogwebmaster at yahoo.com (FOG Web Admin)
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 17:10:20 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Guinea-list] Any written/printed aids for learning Malinke?
In-Reply-To: <20011109182503.51556.qmail@web14510.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <20011110011020.81994.qmail@web9902.mail.yahoo.com>

On the Friends of Guinea page

http://www.friendsofguinea.org/links.shtml

There is a link to the Malinke alphabet, at the very
bottom of the page.

Steph




--- Dan Trevino <abonda at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello all, 
> 
> Me again (Dan Trevino). I plan on learning some
> basic Malinke while I am in Guinea for 3 weeks.
> Alhough I will recruit someone there to teach me, I
> was hoping to gain some familiarity with the
> language before I leave on Dec. 11th. I have been
> searching, without success, for written/printed
> resources on learning Malinke (e.g. language text,
> English-Malinke dictionary). Does anyone know of
> resources like these? 
> 
> Peace, 
> Dan Trevino.......
> 
> 
> ---------------------------------
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Find a job, post your resume on Yahoo! Careers.


=====
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From mamady at fakoli.net  Sat Nov 10 00:04:53 2001
From: mamady at fakoli.net (Mamady Doumbouya)
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 00:04:53 -0500
Subject: [Guinea-list] Any written/printed aids for learning Malinke?
In-Reply-To: <20011110011020.81994.qmail@web9902.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <AEEBIHIFOLNLNHNMIBLKGEJFCBAA.mamady@fakoli.net>

Another place to learn MandingKan (Malinke) is to Visit www.nkoinstitute.com
there you will find N'Ko study tutorial for English speakers. N'Ko classes
are given throughout Guinea.  It is the best, and much faster way to learn
Malinke.

Mamady

-----Original Message-----
From: guinea-list-admin at klatha.com
[mailto:guinea-list-admin at klatha.com]On Behalf Of FOG Web Admin
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 8:10 PM
To: guinea-list at klatha.com
Subject: Re: [Guinea-list] Any written/printed aids for learning
Malinke?


On the Friends of Guinea page

http://www.friendsofguinea.org/links.shtml

There is a link to the Malinke alphabet, at the very
bottom of the page.

Steph




--- Dan Trevino <abonda at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Me again (Dan Trevino). I plan on learning some
> basic Malinke while I am in Guinea for 3 weeks.
> Alhough I will recruit someone there to teach me, I
> was hoping to gain some familiarity with the
> language before I leave on Dec. 11th. I have been
> searching, without success, for written/printed
> resources on learning Malinke (e.g. language text,
> English-Malinke dictionary). Does anyone know of
> resources like these?
>
> Peace,
> Dan Trevino.......
>
>
> ---------------------------------
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Find a job, post your resume on Yahoo! Careers.


=====
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From SaintAnn at aol.com  Sat Nov 10 13:43:29 2001
From: SaintAnn at aol.com (SaintAnn at aol.com)
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 13:43:29 EST
Subject: [Guinea-list] Re: Guinea-list digest, Vol 1 #303 - 4 msgs
Message-ID: <156.3c782e1.291ecf51@aol.com>

    For Dan Trivino,
     You can always check :Google.com   They seem to have everything I ever 
wanted, albeit, I didn't check...Ann Hannibal



From SaintAnn at aol.com  Sat Nov 10 13:52:08 2001
From: SaintAnn at aol.com (SaintAnn at aol.com)
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 13:52:08 EST
Subject: [Guinea-list] Re: Guinea-list digest, Vol 1 #303 - 4 msgs
Message-ID: <aa.177f344.291ed158@aol.com>

In a message dated 11/10/01 9:08:02 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
guinea-list-request at klatha.com writes:


> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64977-2001Nov8.html
> 

I agree this Vasquez character does not fit the tough job of heading our 
GREAT PC, please tell me what we can do at this point?...Ann Hannibal
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From fogwebmaster at yahoo.com  Sun Nov 11 18:34:27 2001
From: fogwebmaster at yahoo.com (FOG Web Admin)
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 15:34:27 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Guinea-list] Guinea to vote on presidential referendum
Message-ID: <20011111233427.28945.qmail@web9906.mail.yahoo.com>

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_1644000/1644915.stm

Guinea votes in crucial referendum
 The presidents support lies in the military
By Alhassan Sillah in Conakry
Guinea is voting on Sunday in a constitutional
referendum on whether to
prolong the mandate of current head of state, General
Lansana Conte.
If passed, the amendment would allow President Conte
to run for a third
term
in office, and extend the presidential term from five
to seven years,
But the move has been fraught with controversy. There
has been strong
opposition, from the Speaker of the National Assembly,
El Hadj Bubacarr
Biro
Diallo.
"The legislature should be involved in any major
constitutional change,"
he
said.
President Conte has been in power for 17 years. He
came to power in a
bloodless coup in 1984 following the death of the
country's first head
of
state, Ahmed Sekou Toure.
Term limits
In 1992, when the new multi-party constitution was
ushered in, it
limited any
head of state to not more than two terms of five years
in office.
The president's current term is due to end in 2003.

Conde: Disunity in opposition ranks is their downfall
The referendum was announced during independence day
celebrations on 2
October.
The opposition remains clearly incensed by the move,
and insiders within
the
president's Party for Unity and Progress say would-be
successors are
hatching
plans.
But it is the opposition alliance, the Co-ordination
for Democracy
(Codem),
that has taken the lead in opposing the plan.
Personality split
The opposition appears to be operating under one
umbrella but there are
divisions.
Ba Mamadou, Codem's chairman in 1998 merged his
political party, the
Union
for Progress and Renewal with that of his Foulah
tribesman and
compatriot,
Siradiou Diallo.
In the presidential elections of that year, Mr Mamadou
allowed Mr Diallo
to
run as presidential candidate for their merged party
because of his age.
The constitution in force at that time barred Mr
Mamadou from standing.
But when a constitutional change was made by
parliament earlier in the
year
that removed the age limit on presidential candidates,
the relationship
between the two men and their supporters became
strained.
What was thus considered as the largest opposition
bloc to Mr Conte, at
least
in terms of ethnic strength, became lost through a
split between the two
men,
which is still growing.
Tax-free concessions
The Foulah ethnic tribesmen are also the leading
commercial traders in
the
country.

Conte has been in power for 17 years
President Conte has lost no time in taking advantage
of the turmoil in
the
Foulah ethnic ranks, by giving tax-free concessions to
key importers.
Many of the key businessmen who would normally have
supported the
opposition
cause financially, now find themselves in Mr Conte's
camp.
But perhaps the country's best alternative for a
change would have been
in
the celebrated opposition politician, Prof Alpha
Conde, leader of the
Rally
for the Guinean People.
He was released from jail a few months ago following
his conviction for
treason in the wake of the 1998 presidential election.
Unknown candidate
But even by the admission of his own supporters, Mr
Conde lacks
grassroots
support not because he is not liked, but simply
because he is not well
known.
Many of his supporters have either only seen his
photograph or his image
on
television.
He spends most of his time overseas, and comes home
only at election
time - a
strategy that is not conducive to African politics.
With Prof Conde lacking these vital political
ingredients, it would seem
that
Guineans' yearning for some intellectual leadership
would have to wait
for
sometime.

Ruling party supporters would be happy to see their
man get his way
It seems the division within the opposition has also
denied it the use
of
some of its well known "bandits" or "area boys".
They have shied away from carrying out any sustained
protests against
the
regime and its referendum.
With the opposition is some disarray and with the
total support for him
by
the security forces, President Conte appears set to
organise and win his
referendum.
And so Guinea and the rest of Africa is facing the
first successful
third-term presidential bid in post one-party Africa.


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From saabrian at yahoo.com  Mon Nov 12 13:27:17 2001
From: saabrian at yahoo.com (Brian Farenell)
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 10:27:17 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Guinea-list] Royal Air Maroc
Message-ID: <20011112182717.47253.qmail@web11703.mail.yahoo.com>

More potential bad news for air travelers to Guinea. I
was reading in the magazine Maroc Hebdo International
that the Moroccan airlines Royal Air Maroc is
undergoing severe financial difficulties. And there is
considerable doubt as to if the governement will bail
out the airline. The recent collapses of Air Afrique
and Sabena left Air France, Aeroflot and Royal Air
Maroc as the only major airlines to fly into Guinea.

Brian

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From fogadvocacy at yahoo.com  Mon Nov 12 15:26:10 2001
From: fogadvocacy at yahoo.com (FOG Advocacy)
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 12:26:10 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Guinea-list] About Gaddi Vasquez
Message-ID: <20011112202610.20045.qmail@web9705.mail.yahoo.com>

For those of you interested in the nomination of Gaddi
Vasquez to be the new Peace Corps director...

--- Mary Anne Crecelius <kaele71 at juno.com> wrote:
> To: "Group Leader" <groupldr-l at list.vita.org>
> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 14:51:37 -0500
> Subject: About Gaddi Vasquez
> From: Mary Anne Crecelius <kaele71 at juno.com>
> 
> This Group Leader message is for the use of NPCA
> staff and affiliate group leaders.  For more
> information on the NPCA, visit www.rpcv.org
> 
> 
> The following link will take you to an article in
> the Washington Post
> that clearly lays out why the nomination of Gaddi
> Vasquez to be the next
> director of Peace Corps is such an insult to the
> agency and to those of
> us who have served as volunteers or worked as Peace
> Corps staff:
> 
>
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64977-2001Nov8.html
> 
> Time has become critical.  If you oppose Vasquez's
> nomination and haven't
> yet contacted your senators' offices to share your
> opinion, please do so
> today.  Do it regardless of your senators' party
> affiliation--they need
> to know what we, as citizens, think.
> 
> You should be able to find contact information for
> both the Washington
> and local offices of your senators at
> http://www.senate.gov/senators/index.cfm.
> 
> Mary Anne Crecelius
> Pittsburgh Area Peace Corps Association
> 


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From NathanSW at excite.com  Tue Nov 13 03:16:14 2001
From: NathanSW at excite.com (LoveJoy)
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 00:16:14 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Guinea-list] Distance Learning for the Third World
Message-ID: <12761255.1005639374129.JavaMail.imail@prance.excite.com>

Hello all. I remember someone asking recently about scholarship
possibilities for Guineans, and it got me to thinking.

I'm working with some talented people in setting up a Web-based database for
people to research the various distance learning (DL) programs that are
currently available, listing legit schools and warning against not-so-legit
schools. And I thought, there's got to be a number of people in the Third
World--Africans, South Americans, etc.--who could scrap together enough
money to pay the tuition for a legitimate institution in the US (or abroad),
but could never afford the travel and living expenses (esp. in the US, where
you have to have a year's worth of living expenses just sitting there in a
bank account).

So as the businessman and the philanthropist in me come together, I'm
wondering if anyone on this list knows anything about DL programs in Guinea
and the Third World in general--how prevalent they already are, how wary
people are of the degree mills, what kind of access people have to the
internet, what kinds of factors would affect the demand for such programs,
etc. If anyone has any insight, I'd love to hear it, no matter how small you
think it might be. Also, if Herb Caudill isn't on this list anymore, can
someone forward me his e-mail address? I'm sure he'd have some keen insight
into the whole affair. Thanks so much!

Cheers,
Nathan





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