Nelson Mandela a Threat? Rep. Lee Aims to Get Famed Leader Off U.S. Terrorist Watch List

Date: Thursday, April 10, 2008
By: Michael H. Cottman, BlackAmericaWeb.com

... Rep. Barbara Lee ... Democrat from California, co-sponsored legislation last week "to exempt the African National Congress (ANC) from treatment as a terrorist organization" ...

"This should never have happened," Lee said in an interview. "The ANC should have never been on the watch list. The ANC was a liberation movement against apartheid, and the United States was on the wrong side of history. This makes no sense with regard to our foreign policy."

Last year, President George W. Bush ... told reporters that Mandela was dead -- "because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas" ...

"The African National Congress shall not be treated as a terrorist organization on the basis of any act or event occurring on or before the date of the enactment of this Act," the bill reads ...

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