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Actually, the U.S. embassy in Nairobi is busy dealing with cases of American evacuees from Rwanda who have sought refuge in Kenya! In addition, seasoned journalists, based at the International Press Centre in Nairobi, are covering more important events in the region. Perhaps Mr. Gell will one day be able to do something similar...
...Gell's information, the United Nations mission to Somalia (if he ever heard of it) began with the U.S. launching relief flights from Mombasa, Kenya. In the ensuing months, Kenya became a popular holiday resort for the troops serving in Somalia and provided an emergency evacuation destination and medical center. Despite Mr. Gell's likes, with limited information and prejudiced views, Kenya remains an island of peace...
...Gell implying that the United States government should shift all its attention to this issue because a young boy and his father were not given special protection on what appears to have been a carelessly planned trip? Unfortunately, this train of thought is based on what is probable the newspaper's biggest story about a foreign country yet. In an attempt to make capital out of it, Mr.Gell is not only doing the newspaper a disservice but he has relegated himself to the class of muckrakers and insensitive tabloid newshounds...
...obvious slant and derogatory undertones in the article are irrational and unwarranted. Would Mr. Gell say that the alleged attack is worse than that of American youths who shot and killed two Japanese students in California? Or the Kenyan woman who was robbed by Americans posing as taxi drivers in New York? Or the American who rode a train and then opened automatic fire on Long Island, New York? or the shocking revelations of the dirty cops of New York amid drugs, gang nuisance, murders and various forms of social strife? I think Mr. Gell would use his position more...
...wish Mr. Gell the best in his continuing eduacation, because his selfrighteous attitude is, to put it mildly, obnoxious. Martin A. Mbugua