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| Zimbabwe throws out envoy over defection |
| 2011-08-28 |
| [Daily Nation (Kenya)] Zim-bob-we has told the Libyan ambassador and his embassy staff in Harare to leave the country after they defected to the National Transition Council (NTC). NTC has been fighting to topple long-time Libyan ruler Muammar Qadaffy ...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years... since February and there are signs the battle is nearing its end. Libyan ambassador to Zim-bob-we Teher Elmagrahi on Wednesday led his countrymen in Zim-bob-we in raising the NTC's red, black and green flag. But President Bob MuggsyMugabe Octogenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case... 's side of the Zim-bob-we coalition government said the pulling down of the old Libyan flag was illegal. The Foreign Affairs ministry said Zim-bob-we had relations with the Qadaffy Government not the NTC, which it does not recognise. "If the ambassador of the embassy of the Libya Jamahiriya ... An Arabic neologism coined by Muammar al-Qadaffy. The word jamahiriya was derived from jumhuriya, which is the usual Arabic translation of republic. It was coined by changing the component jumhur ‐ public‐ to its plural form, jamahir — the masses. Thus, it is similar to the term People's Republic, only more denigrating to the actual inhabitants of the country... in Harare and his staff defect to the National Transitional Council, they will cease to have legal status in Zim-bob-we and will be requested to leave the country immediately," the ministry said in a statement. "Flying the flag of the National Transitional Council in Harare is an illegal act." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Good move, Bob. You're next unless you just die now. Count how many lands you can flee to on the fingers of one hand...er, Gunhill doesn't count as a land. |
| Posted by: Rhodesiafever 2011-08-28 11:43 |