Posted on 06/24/2007 5:44:33 AM PDT by vikingd00d
HARARE PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe is fearing for his safety in Harare and is now sleeping in Zvimba because of a letter he received, purportedly signed by members of the army threatening to get him soon.
CAJ News is in possession of a copy of the letter, with the address of army KGV1 headquarters in Harare sent to "Robert Mugabe of Number 7 Chancellor Avenue in Harare", which is the address for the State House, Mugabe's official residence.
The letter is signed off at the bottom by "1000 soldiers fed up with you" and sources say it was submitted to Mugabe last week after revelations of a suspected coup plot emerged to dominate the Zimbabwean political scene.
"We are fed up and we will get you soon," the first sentence reads. "We are after you and you better pack and go because we can't continue suffering because of you Robert."
The short letter only has one paragraph and is on a letterhead of the Zimbabwe National Army.
CAJ News got a copy of the letter through senior army sources, who also revealed that Mugabe has resorted to sleeping at his rural home in Zvimba, some 120 kilometres west of Harare.
This news agency has also established that Mugabe has been spending less time in Harare since his return from a visit to Libya and Egypt on Sunday.
In addition to the State House, Mugabe also has in Harare his recently finished mansion in the expensive suburb of Borrowdale and to which his family has been confined of late.
Army sources say that attempts at toppling Mugabe have also seen some members of the army "visiting" his Borrowdale mansion.
Mugabe's spokesman, George Charamba dismissed the letter and these reports as rubbish.
"That is rubbish and I shouldn't even explain further regarding this nonsense about coup," he said.
Although Charamba arrogantly tried to brush aside the coup plot, six men are in custody at Chikurubi Remand Prison and were denied bail on Friday on charges of terrorism based on allegations that they planned to oust Mugabe.
It has also been established that more senior army officials have been put on house arrest as the state spreads its net investigating the coup plans.
Part of the coup saga have been executions of unconfirmed numbers of members of the army feared to have tried a go at either arresting or assassinating Mugabe.
Mugabe summoned his ministers of State Security, Defence and Home Affairs upon arrival on Sunday over the coup plot and is said to have put them to task over the matter.
What does it mean? I don't have a dictionary, and the Internet thesarus doesn't have it.
I too fear it will be musicial chairs with guns for a few years after Mugabe.
Tossing someone off or out of a building, I think.
Hang him high.
We need a word for “thrown off of a roof”. “Defenestration” means “thrown from a window”.
Two definitions for the word in Websters Dictionary —> 1) a throwing of a person or thing out of a window 2) a usually swift dismissal or expulsion (as from a political party or office)
There is something fishy about this. Why warn him that you’re going to get him? I hope they do off him, though. What a monster.
How about if they expulsed him from a tall buiding window?
That sounds pretty fitting for this SOB.
My 2 cents: this is a put-up job by Mugabe to justify another purge of the armed forces. If you are a coup plotter, what value is there to telegraphing your intentions?
Peanut brain Former President Jimmy Carter said that Mugabe “exemplifyies the finest aspects of humanity in achieving liberty and justice”
One entry found for defenestration.
Main Entry: de·fen·es·tra·tion
Pronunciation: (”)dE-”fe-n&-’strA-sh&n
Function: noun
Etymology: de- + Latin fenestra window
1 : a throwing of a person or thing out of a window
2 : a usually swift dismissal or expulsion (as from a political party or office)
- de·fen·es·trate /(”)dE-’fe-n&-”strAt/ transitive verb
The one unforgivable crime for a socialist despot is to run out of things to steal. Bobby Mugabe isn’t, of course, the only one in Zimbabwe nor will his death or downfall cure the problem. Plenty of his people are perfectly happy with starving literally half of the country so long as their half remains in power. Every time you think it couldn’t get uglier in Zim, it does.
Proof once again that Jimmy Carter is an enemy of human rights.
Better just to kill him with no threats at all.
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