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Mugabe Buys 10 Fighter Jets From Russia
ZimDaily ^
| April 27, 2006
| correspondent
Posted on 05/02/2006 9:33:27 PM PDT by Sundog
President Robert Mugabe has ploughed an estimated US$500m into the purchase of 10 new fighter jets and military vehicles from Russia, Zimdaily can reveal. The government's acquisition of the military hardware has been blasted by the opposition MDC which charges that the purchase of military equipment had by-passed the State Procurement Board. The MDC has already queried the defence budget - the biggest in the current financial year - which it says is unjustifiable for a country that is not at war.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: mugabe; zimbabwe
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Just need to keep things in perspective here after the threads about printing and borrowing money and the NY-Times puff piece about inflation there, and the white farmer offer to lease back their property, Mugabe is still quite the ambitious scoundrel.
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posted on
05/02/2006 9:33:32 PM PDT
by
Sundog
To: Sundog
President Robert Mugabe has ploughed an estimated US$500m
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posted on
05/02/2006 9:39:53 PM PDT
by
Graybeard58
(Remember and pray for Sgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
To: Clive
Have you seen this one?
(Just when you thought you'd seen everything the idiot could do...)
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posted on
05/02/2006 9:51:27 PM PDT
by
Sundog
(Cheers.)
To: Sundog
That butcher Mugabe needs 10 new fighter jets like a monkey needs a grand piano.
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posted on
05/02/2006 9:53:01 PM PDT
by
mkjessup
(The Shah doesn't look so bad now, eh? But nooo, Jimmah said the Ayatollah was a 'godly' man.)
To: Sundog
And here I was led to believe his people were starving.
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posted on
05/02/2006 9:58:32 PM PDT
by
taxesareforever
(Never forget Matt Maupin)
To: Sundog
Wonder what he paid for it with and if he realizes that the initial purchase price is only part of the cost.
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posted on
05/02/2006 9:59:55 PM PDT
by
gondramB
(He who angers you, in part, controls you. But he may not enjoy what the rest of you does about it.)
To: Sundog
Paid for with what ? Sadza ? Looted diamonds from the Congo ?
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posted on
05/02/2006 10:14:10 PM PDT
by
1066AD
To: Sundog
russia is really becoming a problem. i heard tonight on special report with brit hume that russia and china, who have exclusive contracts to sell weapons and buy oil from iran, are completely against a Sec. Council resolution against iran that has absolutely any sting to it.
To: gondramB
Wonder what he paid for it with and if he realizes that the initial purchase price is only part of the cost. *Exactly... The day the Russian contractors stop pulling P.M. on those aircraft and leave the country will be the last day they fly.
To: Capn TrVth
>>*Exactly... The day the Russian contractors stop pulling P.M. on those aircraft and leave the country will be the last day they fly.<<
I can't remeber the name of the movie - the two competing tribes with oil money were buying fighter planes to roll down hills at each other...
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posted on
05/02/2006 10:55:27 PM PDT
by
gondramB
(He who angers you, in part, controls you. But he may not enjoy what the rest of you does about it.)
To: Sundog
LOL! And I wonder who's money is being spent on this?
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posted on
05/02/2006 10:58:00 PM PDT
by
VeniVidiVici
(ICE, ICE Baby.)
To: Sundog
This must be a new experience for Mugabe: getting something from white people and actually having to pay for it. I'm guessing that during negotiations, he contemplated threatening to confiscate the planes, but was talked out of it.
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posted on
05/02/2006 11:07:28 PM PDT
by
Gordongekko909
(I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
To: Sundog
I don't know what kind of drugs that guy is on, and for once I'm pretty sure I don't want any.
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posted on
05/03/2006 12:31:42 AM PDT
by
KarinG1
(Some of us are trying to engage in philosophical discourse. Please don't allow us to interrupt you.)
To: Sundog
Mugabe Buys 10 Fighter Jets From Russia
Yeah, that'll feed the people starving in Zimbabwe; Russian fighters!!! I wonder why EVERY nation with a starving populace doesn't feed their people Russian fighters?? Frankly, Mugabe may be onto something, here (crack cocaine, comes to mind!)
(Yes, this is sarcasm)
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posted on
05/03/2006 3:49:29 AM PDT
by
DustyMoment
(FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
To: Sundog
Does the NY
Times still support this murderous Communist thug hell bent on starving millions of his own people to death or have they come out against this particular murderous Communist thug hell bent on starving millions of his own people to death?
It's so hard to tell with those guys.
To: DustyMoment
Don't worry, they bought the plow attachment. At Mach 2, you can plow 150,000 acres an hour!
To: Sundog
Try buying parts for this junk!
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posted on
05/03/2006 4:02:03 AM PDT
by
Doc Savage
(Of all these things you can be sure, only love...will endure.......................)
To: Sundog
It'll make it easier for 10 Air Force pilots to defect to South Africa.
To: Sundog
Russia is a mobbed-up thugocracy with a pseudo-commie patter. They would sell heroin to a two year old just to get them hooked.
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posted on
05/03/2006 4:13:24 AM PDT
by
ZeitgeistSurfer
(The Democrats solution is poison. When the patient is dying, their solution - more poison.)
To: Sundog
He plans to shoot down what? Anybody attempting to flee?
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posted on
05/03/2006 4:15:33 AM PDT
by
hershey
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