US shamed by Mandela terror link

[Eugene]

Source: BBC News

Page last updated at 09:31 GMT, Thursday, 10 April 2008 10:31 UK

US shamed by Mandela terror link

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has asked
for "embarrassing" travel restrictions on Nelson
Mandela and South African leaders to be lifted.

A bill has been introduced in the US Congress to
remove from databases any reference to South
Africa's governing party and its leaders as terrorists.

The African National Congress (ANC) was designated
as a terrorist organisation by South Africa's old
apartheid regime.

At present a waiver is needed for any ANC leaders
to enter the country.

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Last week, Howard Berman, chairman of the House
Committee on Foreign Affairs, who introduced the
bill said it was "shameful" that the United States
still treated the ANC this way.

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Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7340248.stm

[ColbertWatcher]

1. What the hell is with this woman's State Department?

Can no one in this administration do their job?

Ha, ha! Just kidding, of course they can't

First she can't read memos, then she takes part in approving torture now her State Department rummages through passport files and calls Nelson Mandela a terrorist.

I guess she would make a good running-mate for Old Man McSame.

[ManiacJoe]

3. In all honesty, you have to wonder why

the Clinton Administration didn't fix it.

[bemildred]

2. One man's "terrorist" is another man's "freedom fighter".

QED.