Jack Abramoff's White Man's Burden: How The Repuke Worked for Apartheid

[PhilipShore]

BuzzFlash
Jack Abramoff's White Man's Burden: How The Sleazy Lobbyist Worked for Apartheid
February 20, 2006

http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/06/02/con06067.html

Picture the scene.

It was a quiet night in June 1985 in the equatorial heat of Jamba, a small town in the heartland of Angola, the oil and diamond rich African nation that was divided by a bloody civil war for 30 years. Jamba at the time was a base for Jonas’ Savimbi’s Unita movement, a tribal secessionist army bizarrely funded, at the same time, by Communist China and the CIA.

A top-secret meeting was then underway between Savimbi and his boosters led by a young American Republican activist, none other than Jack Abramoff, a man who could bring down the current GOP Administration. He was there representing an organization he founded, the International Freedom Foundation. Abramoff, and others disguised their identities. His code name was "Pacman."

Also present, a South African newspaper reports, "Leaders of the Afghan mujahedin, Nicaraguan contras, Laotian guerrillas and members of the Oliver North American right." (Could a Bin Laden operative have been there with the CIA-backed Afghan delegation? There’s no evidence of that yet.)

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1. Apartheid

I'm SO glad the apartheid years are long behind us. That system of 2nd class citizenship--dhimmitude by any other name--is something we must ALWAYS fight!

O8) O8) O8)