Charles shakes hands with Mugabe

[emad]

BBC

Prince Charles has shaken hands with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe at the Pope's funeral.

The Prince was "caught by surprise" when Mr Mugabe leaned over to greet him, Clarence House said.

President Mugabe sidestepped a European Union travel ban to attend the funeral service in the Vatican.

Opponents condemned his presence at the service as an insult, with one Euro MP describing it as a "flagrant breach of the EU travel ban".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4425385.stm

[mrfrapp]

1. Jack Straw

"Caught By Surprise", my foot. It's not half as transparent as the British Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw's excuse though.

"I was sort of being pushed towards shaking hands with somebody as a matter of courtesy, and then it transpired it was President Mugabe,"

[Dookus]

2. I actually find it believable

there are thousands of people there, and one can't know them all. Somebody reaches out to shake your hand... you do it.

[dolgoruky]

3. Charles shakes hands with Mugabe

"Prince Charles has shaken hands with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe at the Pope's funeral."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4425385.stm

I'm glad to see the catholic church saw fit to invite that champion and defender of liberal freedoms Mugabe to the pope's funeral. However, I'm quite sure it was in keeping with the late pontiff's wishes.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

4. Mugabe once fought for freedom, but he became corrupted by power

and is now a nasty tyrant.

[AngryAmish]

5. Corrupted by the Ring?

[Anarcho-Socialist]

6. Sounds like it...

...The Lord of the Rings is a euphemism for how power corrupts.