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Zimbabwe: Officials Defend Sale of Animals to North Korea($1K per baby dumbo)
AP(via NYT) ^ | 05/19/10

Posted on 05/22/2010 11:08:53 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

May 19, 2010

Zimbabwe: Officials Defend Sale of Animals to North Korea

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Wildlife authorities in Zimbabwe on Wednesday defended the decision to sell two baby elephants and other animals to North Korea, and they said veterinary experts were satisfied that North Korea was equipped to care for them. The two 18-month-old elephants each cost $10,000. Officials said the other animals purchased by the North included breeding pairs of giraffes, zebras, antelopes, hyenas, monkeys and birds.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: elephant; nkorea; zimbabwe

1 posted on 05/22/2010 11:08:54 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; Steel Wolf; nuconvert; MizSterious; nw_arizona_granny; ...

P!


2 posted on 05/22/2010 11:09:17 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

These people are so evil. Obama and the Democrats are just like them.


3 posted on 05/22/2010 11:11:36 PM PDT by Frantzie (McCain=Obama's friend. McCain/Graham = La Raza's Senators)
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they said veterinary experts were satisfied that North Korea was equipped to care for them.

They even have the giant size wok.

4 posted on 05/22/2010 11:12:56 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (I am so immune to satire that I ate three Irish children after reading Swift's "A Modest Proposal")
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Nah. I’m thinking Kim wants to build his own Neverland just like Michael Jackson.


5 posted on 05/22/2010 11:28:34 PM PDT by Clock King (Ellisworth Toohey was right: My head's gonna explode.)
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But Johnny Rodrigues, the head of the independent Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force, criticized the arrangement. “We understand North Korea does not have a good record in animal rights,” he said.


6 posted on 05/22/2010 11:32:40 PM PDT by restornu
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Two words - steaks, chops.


7 posted on 05/23/2010 12:00:39 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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I’m sure the Ronery One’s zoo animals are fed better than most of the people.


8 posted on 05/23/2010 12:32:58 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: KarlInOhio

MMMMM General Tso’s Spicy Zebra....... Orange Flavoured Hippo ....... LOL


9 posted on 05/23/2010 3:16:44 AM PDT by jakerobins
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These must be for Chia’s petting zoo. Dear Reader emulates Michael.


10 posted on 05/23/2010 5:00:28 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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