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: 2004-05-26 Time: 13:13:07 Posted By: Jan
[This is an atrocious lie. Immediately after the alleged mercenaries were arrested, it was stated on TV and in the media that the Intelligence services of South Africa forewarned Zimbabwe of the flight. Now they deny it… It was entrapment… and I’ve said that from the beginning. This whole this was originally orchestrated from South Africa.
In another “co-incidence” – which I don’t believe is a co-incidence (and which I mentioned months ago) – the ANC passed laws aimed at nailing whites who get involved in military activities. That’s what this whole thing is about. Chances are – these men are all innocent – but the ANC/Zimbabwe/Guinea want to “make an example of them” to DETER other whites/blacks from getting involved in military activity which the governments here disapprove of. Jan]
Lawyers for the South African government on Wednesday denied the state had “set a trap” for 70 suspected mercenaries who were arrested in Zimbabwe over an alleged coup plot in Equatorial Guinea.
The 70 men, who come from South Africa, Namibia and Angola but were all travelling on South African passports, were arrested on arrival at Harare airport on March 7 after taking off in a private plane from South Africa.
Lawyers for the men say they were arrested after South Africa tipped off Zimbabwean authorities. The group has lodged an urgent application in the Pretoria High Court to force South Africa to bring the men back home.
‘The police are dealing actively with this’
“The NIA (National Intelligence Agency) denies that it set a trap for the arrest of the men,” state advocate Ishmael Simenya said in an affidavit before the court.
“The deputy director general Lizo Njenje says that had there been prior co-operation between the NIA and the Zimbabwe authorities he would have known and he did not. NIA has no prior knowledge of attempts to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea.”
The men face possible extradition to Equatorial Guinea where another 15 alleged soldiers of fortune were arrested for allegedly planning to overthrow President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, long-time leader of the oil-rich central African nation. One subsequently died in custody of “cerebral malaria”, according to the Malabo authorities.
The Pretoria High Court on Monday started hearing lawyers for the applicants arguing that South Africa should request that the men be tried here.
Their lawyers are also asking the government to take all “reasonable and necessary” steps to ensure that the men will not be extradited to Equatorial Guinea, and to protect the group from a possible death penalty.
Lawyer Francois Joubert, for the applicants, told the court that then minister of intelligence Lindiwe Sisulu, presidential spokesperson Bheki Khumalo and Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota had all alluded to the South African government tipping off the Zimbabwean and Equatorial Guinean authorities before the 70 accused took off from South Africa.
Simenya also denied that there was sufficient evidence against the accused to try them in South Africa, but Joubert argued that a docket had been opened here.
“Investigations have gone far. The police are dealing actively with this,” Joubert said.
Source: Independent Online (IOL)
URL: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=68&ar…/p>