Zimbabwe: CIA Is Behind Kidman Movie

[Eugene]

Zimbabwe: CIA Is Behind Kidman Movie

Sat Sep 3, 1:08 PM ET

HARARE, Zimbabwe - President Robert Mugabe's government has attacked
the suspense thriller "The Interpreter," starring Nicole Kidman,
claiming it is part of a propaganda campaign by the CIA that shows
"Zimbabwe's enemies did not rest."

The Herald, the government-controlled daily newspaper, also linked
the film to efforts by Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander
Downer last week to have Mugabe indicted by the International
Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.

In the film, Kidman plays a United Nations interpreter who overhears
two people discussing an apparent assassination plot against the
president of a fictional Republic of Matobo. The president, Edmond
Zuwanie, is accused of ethnic cleansing and plans to address the U.N.
General Assembly in an attempt to forestall indictment by the
International Criminal Court.

Two months after Zimbabwe's official censorship board approved the
film's screening here, acting Minister of Information and Publicity
Chen Chimutengwende told The Herald in Saturday's editions: "The
CIA-backed film showed that Zimbabwe's enemies did not rest."

Zuwanie and the fictional country he leads have been interpreted as
caricatures of Mugabe and Zimbabwe.

More: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050903/ap_en_mo/zimbabwe_the_interpreter