[Cincinatus' Wife]

Group Faults Libya's Nomination to Head U.N. Commission on Human Rights***Over the last decade, Libya has detained government opponents for years without charge or trial, prohibited the formation of political parties or independent non-governmental groups, and muzzled its press, according to HRW. In the past, the Libyan government has also been responsible for torture, "disappearances" and the assassination of political opponents abroad.

In its 2002 report on Libya, Amnesty International (AI) said: "Dozens of political prisoners were released, but hundreds, including prisoners of conscience and possible prisoners of conscience, remained in jail, many without charge or trial. "There were further reports of torture and ill-treatment from previous years, where no impartial and thorough investigations had been conducted" and "repeated requests from AI to send trial observers received no response from the Libyan authorities", the report added.***

[Bubba_Leroy]

If I were a farmer in Zimbabwe I'd buy all the salt I could and plow it into my fields before I left.

[Lion Den Dan]

When this business, I felt sorry for the white farmers in their disposession. Now all I feel is contempt. Those people won't fight for what is theirs, they don't desreve it. I recognise that they lost out when the country was Rhodesia and I remember how. Now, they are the opressed people and ought to fight.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Well there is one hopeful sign. Rhodesia still has diversity. Just like America!

[LarryLied]

Letter to the editor of the Zimbabwe Independent:

I heard this Ben-Menashe babbling on ZBC about how he supported Mugabe and believed in Africa for the Africans. If you ever get a chance to interview him, ask him if as a staunch anti-colonialist he also believes in Palestine for the Palestinians. Pathetic!
Mike Davies,
Harare.

Former member of Israel's Military Intelligence and is former Mossad deputy chief Ari Ben-Menashe trades arms for diamonds in Zimbabwe.

$105 million in military equipment from Israel arrives in Zimbabwe. ($895 million more agreed upon when Mugabe comes up with the cash)

Follow the money. Think Section 8 housing on a continent wide scale. Billions can be made looting and destroying countries.

[Redleg Duke]

"The law will take its course,"

To see to what poor Rhodesia has sunk! I suppose most of today's people don't remember the powerhouse it was before the UN stepped in and "corrected things"!

[Doc-Joe]

I finally saw a story about this on a major network this weekend (I think ABC). Not once did they mention how many white farmers have been brutalized and murdered. Most sickening was footage of locals handling a bag of grain with the American flag and the letters USA across it.

American Conservative