Thursday, June 19, 2008
Straw, Thatcher involved in Equatorial Guinea coup - what price Mugabe now ?
Mark Thatcher has been dramatically named in court as one of the architects of a plot to seize control of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea. Mann said of Mark Thatcher: 'He put in about $350,000 and became much more than an investor. He was one of my bosses - part of a group of four who administered the coup'.
Jack Straw, the then Foreign Secretary, and onetime doyen of 'revolting students', has already confirmed in parliament that the UK was 'aware' of the coup attempt.
AFAIK Equatorial Guinea should not have been subject to a coup. My acquaintance with Zimbabwe citizens indicates that Mugabe's views are understandable in the African context - though by now Mugabe's position seems far too extreme, he may well have been led to it by UK attempts at perpetrating the vile and criminal UK colonial yoke. We must remember that the worthless Margaret Thatcher wrongly supported South African apartheid and so would the Brits now- if they had the guts.
Assassination of Gordon Brown and Barack Obama seem much more reasonable in an understood context. No wonder Brown wants heavy penalties for so-called 'terrorism'.
IMO: If the innocent are imprisoned and tortured, maybe Gordon Brown sees this as less important than a risk to him, personally.
Mark Thatcher has been dramatically named in court as one of the architects of a plot to seize control of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea. Mann said of Mark Thatcher: 'He put in about $350,000 and became much more than an investor. He was one of my bosses - part of a group of four who administered the coup'.
Jack Straw, the then Foreign Secretary, and onetime doyen of 'revolting students', has already confirmed in parliament that the UK was 'aware' of the coup attempt.
AFAIK Equatorial Guinea should not have been subject to a coup. My acquaintance with Zimbabwe citizens indicates that Mugabe's views are understandable in the African context - though by now Mugabe's position seems far too extreme, he may well have been led to it by UK attempts at perpetrating the vile and criminal UK colonial yoke. We must remember that the worthless Margaret Thatcher wrongly supported South African apartheid and so would the Brits now- if they had the guts.
Assassination of Gordon Brown and Barack Obama seem much more reasonable in an understood context. No wonder Brown wants heavy penalties for so-called 'terrorism'.
IMO: If the innocent are imprisoned and tortured, maybe Gordon Brown sees this as less important than a risk to him, personally.
# posted by uv : 7:56 AM
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