Friday, December 06, 2013

Nelson Mandela R.I.P.


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A CIA agent fingered Mandela for the apartheid regime’s secret police.   REUTERS/Mike Hutchings MH/DBP
 
"One of the great things about the late great Nelson Mandela is that he didn’t hold grudges. How else could he have accepted normal relations with the CIA, which tipped off the white-supremacy regime to his whereabouts in 1962?

According to a 1990 Johannesburg Sunday Times newspaper account, a CIA agent by the name of Millard Shirley fingered Mandela for the apartheid regime’s secret police, allowing them to throw up a roadblock and capture him..."


From antiwar.com . . .
Nelson Mandela, RIP
Nelson Mandela Dies Aged 95
Flashback 2008: US Takes Mandela Off 'Terror' List
Nelson Mandela Obituary
Mandela in 2002: 'America Is a Threat to World Peace'
Go Ahead, Politicize Mandela
The Contradictions of Mandela
Nelson Mandela: He's Honored Now, but Was Hated Then
FW De Klerk: World Has Lost a Great Unifier
Cheney Didn't Regret Opposing Freedom for Nelson Mandela, Maintained He Was a 'Terrorist'


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