Dear Radiokatwe,

We the officers of UPDF stationed at Army Headquarters would wish to thank you and our colleague Captain Vincent for this masterpiece article "The day Museveni knelt before Muammar Gaddafi".

It is the talk of the day in the entire barrack and I am sure in many offices around Kampala and tonight in most of the bars.

We in the UPDF have always wondered without answers why Gaddafi comes to our country and behaves like the king and our Commander in Chief (commonly referred to now in the army circles as Conman in Chief) acts like his servant.

I have crossed checked with one of the old Historicals who was trained in Libya during that time and he confirms part of the story.

According to him, during their training in Libya around 1983, they used to hear such stories from the Libyans that Museveni our leader knelt before Gaddafi. He says they never took the story seriously but it was always rumored in the training camps.

When I showed him the article, he claims the Major who was in that meeting (and true he visited Ugandan during the time Moses Ali was arrested) was none other than, the deputy of Gaddafi, Major Abdessalam Jalloud. Though he claims this Maj. Jalloud later fell out of favour with Gaddafi, one of the reasons being the sharp disagreement that arose when Libya supported Museveni instead of Moses Ali.

He also claims that the intelligence man whom Captain Vincent may be referring too was one Colonel called Majid Abedi who was specifically assigned to train the Ugandan contingent.

He says if he remembers right, this particular man was one of the best trainers in guerrilla warfare and tactics but had a particular dislike for Museveni and during his free time when he was smoking in their traditional way, he would joke about having trained Europeans in Germany, IRA, Zimbabweans and South Africans, but of all leaders, he had never known of a guerrilla leader who abandons his men in the bush and lives a rich life style like Museveni was doing in Sweden.

In fact, according to the Historical, one time Museveni came for the pass out parade and this Colonel refused to salute him claiming he has no time for cowards and opportunists who claim to be freedom fighters.

He claims Moses Ali was a Minister of Finance during Amin's time and was arrested in 1988 not 1990.
(True, Moses Ali held various posts in Amin's government, one of them Finance Minister. The date we have for the arrest is April 1990. We shall check again and make the necessary corrections. Thank you. - Ed)

According to this Historical, he says he now pities Museveni because if his once trusted Aide like Captain Vincent now starts talking, then he can only be in trouble.

He joked that the problem with Museveni is that of a monkey which is climbing a high tree (over staying in power) and increasingly exposing its buttocks. The problem with Museveni's buttocks according to this retired senior officer, is that they are very dirty but he has always been lucky that they have up to now been very hairy so you couldn't see much. Though now the hair is starting to fall off due to old age and his only hope is that he falls out of the tree before all the hair falls off, otherwise Ugandans will be shocked and wonder if he ever took a bath in the last 40 years considering how dirty and wounded his buttocks are!

He also mentioned that the problem Ugandans have made and may continue to make is to assume we a dealing with a decent man.

This is a first class criminal and confidence trickster, putting on expensive suits, staying in State House, being driven around in cars with double flags and hiding behind the Uganda national emblem he moves around with.

Otherwise, remove all that pomp and ceremenony and you will expose a one-time criminal gang leader in the early 1980s called one Katogola.

Major K. (xxxxxx Barracks)