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emad

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Tue Sep-06-05 09:00 AM
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Zimbabwe accuses CIA of film plot

Zimbabwe has accused a recent Hollywood film starring Nicole Kidman of being a "CIA-sponsored" campaign against President Robert Mugabe.
Acting Information Minister Chen Chimutengwende said The Interpreter was a thinly-disguised swipe at Mr Mugabe.

Kidman plays an interpreter at the UN who overhears a plot to kill the leader of a fictional African country.

Mr Chimutengwende called it propaganda and showed that "Zimbabwe's enemies did not rest".

Directed by Sydney Pollack, the film also stars Sean Penn as a secret agent who investigates the assassination plot.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4216168.stm

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emad

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Tue Sep-06-05 09:04 AM
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1. "Obvious connection":

"The film talks about an African president going to the United Nations and our president is going to the UN next week so the connection is so obvious," he said.

"It is part of a CIA-sponsored fight... but we will defeat them and we will defeat neo-colonialism. We have defeated a powerful enemy before which was colonialism," Mr Chimutengwende added.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4216168.stm

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tooncesj0nes

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Tue Sep-06-05 10:16 AM
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2. how did they know?

that mugabe was going to the UN when they made this film?.the clairvoyant capacities of the CIA is simply astonishiing! (sarcasm of course)

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Freddie Stubbs

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Tue Sep-06-05 11:38 AM
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3. Could it be that someone has a persecution complex?

:shrug:

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