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U.S., British diplomats attacked in Zimbabwe (Officials stopped at gunpoint, worker beaten)
MSNBC ^ | 6/5/2008 | MSNBC News Services

Posted on 06/05/2008 7:57:28 AM PDT by Smogger

HARARE, Zimbabwe - U.S. diplomats and British colleagues were attacked as they tried to investigate political violence in Zimbabwe, American officials said Thursday.

The U.S. ambassador reportedly blamed the incident on President Robert Mugabe's government.

"Police put up a roadblock, stopped the vehicles, slashed the tires, reached in and grabbed telephones from my personnel, and the war veterans (Mugabe's supporters) threatened to burn the vehicles with my people inside unless they got out and accompanied police to a station nearby," Reuters quoted U.S. Ambassador James McGee as saying.

McGee said he believes the orders of intimidation are "coming directly from the top."

'Lawless country' "Zimbabwe has become a lawless country," McGee said. "The government is trying to intimidate its own people into voting what they consider the correct way, and now what they're trying to do is intimidate diplomats" from traveling into the countryside.

Paul Engelstad, spokesman for the U.S. Embassy, said an Embassy employee was beaten and tires of cars in the convoy were slashed. Engelstad said the group was still being detained at a roadblock in rural Zimbabwe.

He said McGee, who did not go on the trip, was pressing Zimbabwean officials to release them.

This is a breaking news story. Please check back for updates.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: africa; diplomats; jamesmcgee; usembassy; zimbabwe; zimbawee
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To: Smogger

Mugabe gets away with this and the South African government is complicit in it.

They are trying to intimidate the people and steal the election run-off later this month.


21 posted on 06/05/2008 8:46:56 AM PDT by Nextrush (MCCAIN, OBAMA, CLINTON......WHAT A CHOICE?)
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To: Smogger

Wellcome back in the real world OBAMA/CARTER and other liberal flute players...
Is it USA’s fault? Sure!I don’t know what but it must be so since africans...and the world is so wonderfull


22 posted on 06/05/2008 8:47:55 AM PDT by Ulysse
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To: Mark was here

Has Carter encouraged this thug in Zimbabwe?


23 posted on 06/05/2008 8:51:44 AM PDT by romanesq
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To: romanesq
My friend, Jimmy, is coming? Will Obama be with him.


24 posted on 06/05/2008 8:59:40 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE toll-free tip hotline 1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRget!!!)
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To: Smogger

A vision of Obama’s America.


25 posted on 06/05/2008 9:00:10 AM PDT by depressed in 06 (Bolshecrat, the amoral party of what if and whine.)
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To: Smogger
Sounds like a civil war to me and Nancy Pelosi said we shouldn't get involved in Civil Wars. Just do as she says.
26 posted on 06/05/2008 9:07:56 AM PDT by McGruff
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To: NormsRevenge

Is that a little Hitler mustache under his nose?


27 posted on 06/05/2008 9:24:16 AM PDT by Alouette (Vicious Babushka)
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To: AppyPappy

Also, I would like to see a multi-national body, fully funded by the U.S., investigate the matter and issue written resolutions.


28 posted on 06/05/2008 9:27:31 AM PDT by Augustinian monk (You going to pull those pistols or whistle Dixie?- Jose Wales)
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To: Smogger

Mugabe is the one that should be burned alive. He needs to go ASAP.


29 posted on 06/05/2008 9:37:58 AM PDT by DFG
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To: Smogger

If they do harm Americans, I hope we go in there and destroy him.


30 posted on 06/05/2008 9:46:33 AM PDT by wastedyears (Like a bat outta Hell.)
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To: Augustinian monk

That would carry the weight of a UN resolution, which is exactly nothing.

There’s only one thing this something something understands, and that’s massive, overwhelming force.


31 posted on 06/05/2008 9:53:32 AM PDT by wastedyears (Like a bat outta Hell.)
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To: Smogger

“Mugabe backers-threaten to ‘burn’ diplomats alive”

But... But... But...

The Nation of Islam says Africa is the cradle of civilization!

Louis Farrakahn wouldn’t LIE to us, would he?


32 posted on 06/05/2008 10:36:43 AM PDT by WayneS (And now I shall return to my hovel and cling to my guns - but only until it is time to go to Church)
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To: Smogger

And we’re supposed to “respect” and be concerned about the welfare of these “people”?

Sorry — I can’t find it in my being to care anymore....

Much like the militant Islamists — many Africans are unready for the 21st century.......
It appears that everything the colonialists accomplished has been undone......

In Africa, “Home Rule” = chaos.

To add insult to injury - the U.N. has sent an AFRICAN MUSLIM to America to investigate violations of Human Rights and RACISM!

You simply couldn’t make this shit up.


33 posted on 06/05/2008 10:41:46 AM PDT by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: Smogger
U.S. diplomats and British colleagues were attacked as they tried to investigate political violence in Zimbabwe

I'd say that dispels any doubts that it exists. Now, what will the U.S. do about the mistreatment of its diplomats? This can't go unpunished or it will happen again.

34 posted on 06/05/2008 12:28:29 PM PDT by TexasRepublic (When hopelessness replaces hope, it opens the door to evil.)
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To: Smogger

OMG it’s a quagmire! When do we withdraw???! /sarc


35 posted on 06/05/2008 1:29:12 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 (History is a story written by the finger of God. — C.S. Lewis)
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To: Seeking the truth
Maybe Obama could have a dialogue with them, you know get down .

And that's exactly what he'd want to do, the fool. Part of the childlike mentality of the Democrats is their absolute belief that the proper response to an act of war is to negotiate with the enemy.

36 posted on 06/05/2008 1:39:29 PM PDT by American Quilter (John McCain--today's Scoop Jackson democrat. He should change parties.)
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To: AppyPappy
No. Let’s send over a pile of money and see if it improves.

Only if it's Monopoly money.

37 posted on 06/05/2008 1:48:50 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 (History is a story written by the finger of God. — C.S. Lewis)
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To: Seeking the truth

Show me one well-run country in the world run by blacks. Just one.

So.........Obama..........forget it.


38 posted on 06/05/2008 2:50:11 PM PDT by RightOnline
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To: Seeking the truth
Maybe Obama could have a dialogue with them, you know get down .

You know, I don't support Obama, and intend on voting for McCain, but I have to say that I think your comment, especially considering the context, is, for lack of a better word, embarrassing.
39 posted on 06/05/2008 4:05:19 PM PDT by khnyny (Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy)
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Zimbabwean Generals Have ‘Taken Robert Mugabe’s Power’
The Telegraph (UK) | 6-5-2008 | David Blair
Posted on Thursday, June 05, 2008 04:17:34 PM by blam
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40 posted on 06/05/2008 4:34:11 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
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