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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Dr.Dudd</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Zimbabwe court charges MDC politician over alleged terrorism plotWhite ministerial nominee's arrest threatens to undermine new power-sharing government
Sam Jones and agencies
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 17 February 2009 13.57 GMT
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<span style="font-weight: bold">Roy Bennett, the white former farmer who was nominated as the deputy agriculture minister in Zimbabwe's new coalition government, has appeared in court charged in connection with an alleged terrorism and insurgency plot.
Bennett, a senior member of the Movement for Democratic Change party, was also charged with banditry and violating the immigration act for leaving and returning to the country illegally.</span>
The decision to bring the case has raised doubts about the credibility of Zimbabwe's fledgling power-sharing government, which held its first cabinet meeting today.
It will also generate further tensions between the new prime minister, Morgan Tsvangirai, and President Robert Mugabe.
Bennett, who had been living in exile in South Africa after fleeing Zimbabwe two years ago because police wanted to question him about the discovery of an arms cache, was arrested before new ministers were sworn in on Friday.
The MDC said that police had planned to charge him with treason, but changed the charges by the time Bennett appeared in a court in eastern Zimbabwe today .
Although the party described Bennett's arrest as an attempt by hardliners in Mugabe's Zanu-PF party to derail the coalition, its cabinet members may be reluctant to quit the government, according to a senior MDC official.
Yesterday, the MDC said Bennett was the victim of a "malicious political vendetta" by hardliners within the military who want to destroy the new government as it tries to lead Zimbabwe out of its economic crisis.
Tsvangirai, and some of his ministers, said they had expected such moves and would not give the hardliners the satisfaction of breaking up the coalition.
Tsvangirai told the Associated Press that although Bennett's arrest undermined "the spirit of our agreement", it would not be allowed to ruin it.
"There's no way we will neglect our obligation, even though there are signs of resistance," he said. The MDC said it believed Bennett's detention was organised by the Military Intelligence Directorate with the collusion of the military chief of staff, General Constantine Chiwenga, and the country's police chief, Augustine Chihuri, who has previously threatened to take up arms against a Tsvangirai-led government. All are members of the eight-man Joint Operations Command, effectively Mugabe's security cabinet, along with the commissioner of prisons, Major-General Paradzai Zimondi, who has blocked the release of political detainees.
Bennett's lawyer, Trust Maanda, said his client had been charged under recent security legislation drawn up to pursue Mugabe's opponents.
Maanda said the police accused Bennett of plotting to buy weapons for an attack on a telecommunications station "in order to disrupt essential services", after realising that the treason charge would not hold up in court.
"The police must have realised that they had no leg to stand on," he added. "Their case would not hold water."
The MDC said in a statement the police were hunting around for anything to charge Bennett with and had settled on the Public Order and Security Act. "Clearly they are on a fishing expedition, clutching at straws and know fully well that there is no basis, even suspicion, at law to charge Roy Bennett," the party said.
"All these charges are politically motivated, driven by a vindictive and malicious political vendetta."
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I saw this on the news.
Does this prove or disprove that Mugabe bought a big yard in Hong kong?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Dr.Dudd</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Zimbabwe court charges MDC politician over alleged terrorism plotWhite ministerial nominee's arrest threatens to undermine new power-sharing government
Sam Jones and agencies
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 17 February 2009 13.57 GMT
Article history
<span style="font-weight: bold">Roy Bennett, the white former farmer who was nominated as the deputy agriculture minister in Zimbabwe's new coalition government, has appeared in court charged in connection with an alleged terrorism and insurgency plot.
Bennett, a senior member of the Movement for Democratic Change party, was also charged with banditry and violating the immigration act for leaving and returning to the country illegally.</span>
The decision to bring the case has raised doubts about the credibility of Zimbabwe's fledgling power-sharing government, which held its first cabinet meeting today.
It will also generate further tensions between the new prime minister, Morgan Tsvangirai, and President Robert Mugabe.
Bennett, who had been living in exile in South Africa after fleeing Zimbabwe two years ago because police wanted to question him about the discovery of an arms cache, was arrested before new ministers were sworn in on Friday.
The MDC said that police had planned to charge him with treason, but changed the charges by the time Bennett appeared in a court in eastern Zimbabwe today .
Although the party described Bennett's arrest as an attempt by hardliners in Mugabe's Zanu-PF party to derail the coalition, its cabinet members may be reluctant to quit the government, according to a senior MDC official.
Yesterday, the MDC said Bennett was the victim of a "malicious political vendetta" by hardliners within the military who want to destroy the new government as it tries to lead Zimbabwe out of its economic crisis.
Tsvangirai, and some of his ministers, said they had expected such moves and would not give the hardliners the satisfaction of breaking up the coalition.
Tsvangirai told the Associated Press that although Bennett's arrest undermined "the spirit of our agreement", it would not be allowed to ruin it.
"There's no way we will neglect our obligation, even though there are signs of resistance," he said. The MDC said it believed Bennett's detention was organised by the Military Intelligence Directorate with the collusion of the military chief of staff, General Constantine Chiwenga, and the country's police chief, Augustine Chihuri, who has previously threatened to take up arms against a Tsvangirai-led government. All are members of the eight-man Joint Operations Command, effectively Mugabe's security cabinet, along with the commissioner of prisons, Major-General Paradzai Zimondi, who has blocked the release of political detainees.
Bennett's lawyer, Trust Maanda, said his client had been charged under recent security legislation drawn up to pursue Mugabe's opponents.
Maanda said the police accused Bennett of plotting to buy weapons for an attack on a telecommunications station "in order to disrupt essential services", after realising that the treason charge would not hold up in court.
"The police must have realised that they had no leg to stand on," he added. "Their case would not hold water."
The MDC said in a statement the police were hunting around for anything to charge Bennett with and had settled on the Public Order and Security Act. "Clearly they are on a fishing expedition, clutching at straws and know fully well that there is no basis, even suspicion, at law to charge Roy Bennett," the party said.
"All these charges are politically motivated, driven by a vindictive and malicious political vendetta."
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I saw this on the news.
Does this prove or disprove that Mugabe bought a big yard in Hong kong?
</div></div>while, techincally by social staus and income level, the coach hanbag i bought Lorna cost me about that 
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