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Zimbabwe boots Libyan ambassador who now backs rebels
Cable News Network ^ | CNN Wire Staff

Posted on 09/04/2011 6:18:35 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

President Robert Mugabe's government on Tuesday said the Libyan ambassador to Zimbabwe must leave the country because he has switched his allegiance to the Libyan rebels' National Transitional Council... "Once you renounce the authority that gave you the letter of credence and then proceed to pledge allegiance to another authority ... it means that act deprives you of your diplomatic standing," Mumbengegwi said... Asked about speculation that longtime Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is in Zimbabwe after fleeing as the rebels took over Tripoli, Mumbengegwi said, "I refuse to answer hypothetical questions." On Wednesday of last week, El Magrahi lowered the flag of the Gadhafi regime outside the embassy in Harare and hoisted the rebel flag...

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: libya; passthepopcorn; zimbabwe
Embassy staff and Libyan nationals demonstrate outside the Libyan embassy in Harare, Zimbabwe, on August 24, 2011.

Zimbabwe boots Libyan ambassador who now backs rebels

1 posted on 09/04/2011 6:18:39 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Pass the Popcorn ping.

Also, in this case [singing] Zim-bab-we! Whoa-oh! Zim-bab-we! Whoa-ho-ho-oh!

And maybe a Domino ping — the people of Zimbabwe oppressed by Mugabe will identify with the Libyan rebels...


2 posted on 09/04/2011 6:20:27 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv
I'm surprised Bobby Mugabe didn't send him home dead.
3 posted on 09/04/2011 6:27:19 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Holy flippin' crap, Sarah rocks the world!)
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To: SunkenCiv

A cheap attempt to keep a cushy job.


4 posted on 09/04/2011 6:34:03 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Tribal diplomacy.

He should put them down before a fatwa is issued.


5 posted on 09/04/2011 6:48:48 AM PDT by bayouranger (The 1st victim of islam is the person who practices the lie.)
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