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zarq, news that Bush blames Saddam Hussein for killing the Mandela family.
I think that South Africa is free from invasion, despite the country's substantial Muslim community and the existence of the terrorist group PAGAD--South Africa is just too far away from the Middle East to become the next target in the War on Terror.
UPDATE (11:09 PM) : Asprinceofcairo and thebitterguy point out in the comments of the post, the statement by Bush was taken out of context, extracted from a longer passage in which he sought to explain the apparent absence of peacemakers in Iraq. Bush can fairly be assigned part of the blame for that, but he can't be fairly assigned blame for believing in Ba'athist Iraq's assassination of the Mandela family. My apologies.
zarq, news that Bush blames Saddam Hussein for killing the Mandela family."I heard somebody say, Where's Mandela?' Well, Mandela's dead because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas," Bush, who has a reputation for verbal faux pas, said in a press conference in Washington on Thursday.
Jailed for 27 years for fighting white minority rule, Mandela became South Africa's first black president in 1994. He won a Nobel Peace Prize for preaching racial harmony and guiding the nation peacefully into the post-apartheid era.
References to his death -- Mandela is now 89 and increasingly frail -- are seen as insensitive in South Africa.
I think that South Africa is free from invasion, despite the country's substantial Muslim community and the existence of the terrorist group PAGAD--South Africa is just too far away from the Middle East to become the next target in the War on Terror.
UPDATE (11:09 PM) : As
princeofcairo and thebitterguy point out in the comments of the post, the statement by Bush was taken out of context, extracted from a longer passage in which he sought to explain the apparent absence of peacemakers in Iraq. Bush can fairly be assigned part of the blame for that, but he can't be fairly assigned blame for believing in Ba'athist Iraq's assassination of the Mandela family. My apologies.
