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2004-06-14 Africa: Subsaharan

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Posted by Steve 2004-06-14 8:39:58 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 People starving, all the land about to be taken into government control and what does Bob do? Spend $200 mill on iffy kit from the Chinese.

If ever there was a target for a surgical strike - it's this man.

Posted by Tony (UK) 2004-06-14 9:14:26 AM|| 2004-06-14 9:14:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I'd wait to get his kleptocratic wife Grace at the same time..

Posted by Frank G 2004-06-14 9:50:36 AM|| 2004-06-14 9:50:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Where the hell is Mugabe getting a spare $200 million? He's engineered a major starvation season, he just abolished private property, and no bank in its right mind will loan to a tinpot with the Iraqi example fresh in their minds. Mining?

Posted by Mitch H. 2004-06-14 9:53:33 AM|| [http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2004-06-14 9:53:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Perhaps we should send the *ahem* Reverend *ahem* Jackson into Zimbabwe to negotiate, er, something. Where is the outrage of the LLL over the systematic starvation of a people? Oh, yes, sorry. They are all a-twitter over the panties on the heads of prisoners at abu Graib.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-06-14 10:21:44 AM|| 2004-06-14 10:21:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Asked and answered: al Queda? Of course, $200 million is a hell of a lot for a relatively resource-poor group like al Queda, so maybe not.

Posted by Mitch H. 2004-06-14 12:29:12 PM|| [http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2004-06-14 12:29:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 I hear India's got some Mig-21's. Ya can get them cheap.

Posted by tu3031 2004-06-14 3:30:17 PM|| 2004-06-14 3:30:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Under questioning he also admitted tendering procedures had been breached.

Meaning it never went out to bid, the items were never officially tested and evaluated, and it din't go "though the chain" for review and approval.

Remember, it's "worth $200 million". This doesn't mean the compensation is necessarily in cash.

Posted by Pappy 2004-06-14 11:54:42 PM|| 2004-06-14 11:54:42 PM|| Front Page Top

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