New WikiLeaks files 'to reveal American criticism of Mandela'

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Daily Mail

New WikiLeaks files 'to reveal American criticism of Mandela'
By Simon Walters and Christopher Leake
Last updated at 10:40 AM on 28th November 2010

Nelson Mandela is among world leaders believed to have been criticised in a leak of US diplomatic files, well-placed sources said last night.

Disclosures about the 92-year-old ex-South African President are among three million secret American diplomatic missives obtained by the website WikiLeaks.

Other world leaders who have clashed with the US including Afghanistan’s Hamid Karzai, Libya’s Colonel Gaddafi and Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe also come off badly in the no-holds-barred private cables to the White House from scores of US embassies.

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The secret cables, due to be published online today, are believed to be from January 2006 to December 2009 – taking in the latter part of Tony Blair’s Premiership and most of Gordon Brown’s.


Read more: http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1333723/WikiLeaks-files-reveal-American-criticism-Nelson-Mandela.html

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[kgnu_fan]

1. He used to be officially considered as "terrorist" by US

[boppers]

2. Well, their party wasn't exactly peaceful.

There were no Ghandi's in South Africa.

[kgnu_fan]

3. Yeah, they were "resistant" to oppression and exploitation, inconvenient for US and other masters

[xchrom]

4. maybe they weren't so 'peaceful' as result of having been treated

so violently for so long?

having no real access to the political process and self determination -- even though they were the majority?

yeah apartheid was a real stroll in the park -- and ghandi was in south africa. he lived there.



http://www.encounter.co.za/article/44.html

Ghandi spent some, 20 years in South Africa - 11 of which were spent in Kwazulu/Natal. This was his apprenticeship in becoming a Mahatma or Great Soul. It was at Pietermaritzburg station, where he was ejected from a first class train compartment, that Gandhi was alerted to the plight of Indians in Natal. A striking statue in the Church Street Mall depicts him forever striding forward in commemoration of this incident. "Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

[kgnu_fan]

6. Need to study world history... or go see the world, travel more...see other culture...

[fascisthunter]

7. yeee-up... ironic isn't it?

[denem]

5. Gaddafi, Karzai, Mugabe

Who would have thought?

Blair, Brown - now there's the rub.

[Overseas]

8. Not surprised. A Truth & Reconciliation Commission on the Bush Cheney wars

had to be avoided.

A Truth & Reconciliation Commission could have moved the USA in a new direction.

It will be interesting to see what the Bush gang said about Mandela.