Mugabe lambasts 'terrorist' UK, US leaders

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Mugabe lambasts 'terrorist' UK, US leaders
6:29 AM October 18

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has railed against US President George W Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, calling them "international terrorists" bent on world domination like Adolf Hitler.

Mr Mugabe has departed from his text at a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).

He has accused Mr Bush and Mr Blair of illegally invading Iraq and looking to unseat governments elsewhere.

"Must we allow these men, the two unholy men of our millennium, who in the same way as Hitler and Mussolini formed [an] unholy alliance, formed an alliance to attack an innocent country?" he asked rhetorically.

"The voice of Mr Bush and the voice of Mr Blair can't decide who shall rule in Zimbabwe, who shall rule in Africa, who shall rule in Asia, who shall rule in Venezuela, who shall rule in Iran, who shall rule in Iraq."

Mr Mugabe accuses Britain and the United States of working to unseat him because of his forcible redistribution of white-owned commercial farms among blacks.

The program has helped plunge his country into its worst economic crisis since independence from Britain in 1980.

"Is this the world we desire? The world of giants and international terrorists who use their state muscle in order to intimidate us?" he said.

"We become the midgets."

Some delegates applauded his fiery anti-Western speech several times.

But US ambassador Tony Hall, who has protested against Mr Mugabe's presence at the celebrations, says it is "very unfortunate" that the Zimbabwean leader has politicised an event that was supposed to draw attention to world hunger.

"I think he chews up his own people and spits them out," said Mr Hall, who visited Zimbabwe in August.

"He has taken a perfectly good country and ruined it."

Mr Blair's spokesman said: "Nothing that Mr Mugabe says surprises us or will deflect us from our view of what is going on in Zimbabwe, which is far from a laughing matter."

Aid groups have estimated 5 million of Zimbabwe's 12 million people may need food aid this year.

Critics say Mr Mugabe's policies have considerably worsened their plight, though he denies this.

In his speech, Mr Mugabe defended the land redistribution, saying it was needed to redress the "gross imbalances" of British colonialism.

- Reuters

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