KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) -- A U.S. citizen was charged with terrorism Tuesday
after being found with three unlicensed guns in a volatile region of northern
Uganda, officials said.
Christopher John Howdy, 34, of New York was imprisoned in the capital,
Kampala, until the high court can hear his case.
Uganda's Terrorism Act allows people found with illegal guns to be charged
with terrorism. If convicted, he could be sentenced to more than 10 years in
prison.
U.S. Embassy officials said they could not comment on the case.
Howdy was arrested Monday in Gulu, the center of a two-decade insurgency by
the rebel Lord's Resistance Army, police spokesman Edward Ochom said.
Howdy was believed to be working for a nongovernmental organization, police
said.
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Netters
Some political observers are of the view that the arrest of the
American Citizen, is intended to discourage other Citizens of the world
affliated with NGO from visiting the camps in Northern and Eastern Uganda and
carry out independent research to find out what exactly is happening in the
camps of Northern and Eastern Uganda.
It will be recalled that while Museveni was still in the bushes of Luwero
fighting one of his many of his wars in Luwero , a German citizen who asked
Museveni and his NRM sycophants the wrong question at the wrong time,
mysteriously disappeared never to be heard off again. Many believe the NRM
killed the man!!
Here today, we are confronted with a similar situation with the arrest of
this US citizen. The fellow probably knows too much .
..and the NRM is preventing him from sharing with the world what he knows.
What better way to do so then to arrest and charge the man with "treason". This
then is the real reason why this American was arrest .
I for one, would like this fellow produced in the courts as soon as
possible..I would like to hear what exactly he has to say.Failure to produce
this American in the courts promptly, would be yet another indictments of the
Bloody NRM Military dictatorship!!
Matek
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