WARNING: This is Version 1 of my old archive, so Photos will NOT work and many links will NOT work. But you can find articles by searching on the Titles. There is a lot of information in this archive. Use the SEARCH BAR at the top right. Prior to December 2012; I was a pro-Christian type of Conservative. I was unaware of the mass of Jewish lies in history, especially the lies regarding WW2 and Hitler. So in here you will find pro-Jewish and pro-Israel material. I was definitely WRONG about the Boeremag and Janusz Walus. They were for real.
Original Post Date: 2004-02-26 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 2/26/2004 4:00:13 PM
Zim: Tsvangirai may wait months to hear fate
[Mugabe is bankrupting the MDC with this bogus trial. How funny.
I met with different MP’s from the MDC and told them to their faces that war was the only way to deal with Mugabe. They all of course disagreed with me. I thought they were idiots then. I still do.
I may hate Mugabe’s guts, and I think he’s an evil scum bag – but at least he’s not stupid, and for that I have some respect for him. Why is it that the good guys are such fools?? Jan]
Harare – The treason trial of Zimbabwe opposition chief Morgan Tsvangirai over an alleged plot to assassinate President Robert Mugabe ended on Thursday but judgment was not expected for months.
The year-long trial wound up with both the defence and state counsel wrapping up their arguments.
If convicted, Tsvangirai, who is accused of plotting to kill Mugabe and stage a military coup, faces the death penalty.
“The trial in this matter commenced in February last year and since then a lot of evidence was led,” said senior High Court judge Paddington Garwe.
‘Judgment in this case is reserved’
“There will obviously be need for this court to go through all that evidence and carefully assess the facts against the law.
“Accordingly, judgment in this case is reserved,” he said, adding that once he was ready to deliver judgment, he would announce the date he will hand it down.
The trial, in which the state relied on evidence given by a Canadian political consultant, Ari Ben Menashe, opened on February 3, 2003.
Ben Menashe also supplied the state with a grainy videotape of a meeting he held with Tsvangirai and which was secretly recorded.
Tsvangirai denies state allegations that he conspired to have Mugabe murdered ahead of the March 2002 presidential elections which he lost to the long-time leader.
The opposition and the international community said the polls were marred by widespread fraud and intimidation.
Tsvangirai, a former union leader who formed the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in 1999 to challenge Mugabe, says the government trumped up the treason charges against him in a bid to frame and discredit him ahead of a presidential election in 2002.
He lost the elections, which were discredited by international observers who said they were rigged and marred by political violence.
Tsvangirai said he had hired Ben Menashe’s firm to help with international lobbying and fundraising for his party, but later discovered the government had also hired it. – Sapa-AFP
Source: IOL
URL: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=79&ar…br>