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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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.
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
Has Carter encouraged this thug in Zimbabwe?
A vision of Obama’s America.
Is that a little Hitler mustache under his nose?
Also, I would like to see a multi-national body, fully funded by the U.S., investigate the matter and issue written resolutions.
Mugabe is the one that should be burned alive. He needs to go ASAP.
If they do harm Americans, I hope we go in there and destroy him.
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.
“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?
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.
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.
OMG it’s a quagmire! When do we withdraw???! /sarc
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.
Only if it's Monopoly money.
Show me one well-run country in the world run by blacks. Just one.
So.........Obama..........forget it.
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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