Nelson Mandela is no longer a Terrorist
The first president of post-apartheid South Africa and the greatest statesman of the 20th Century Nelson mandela will no longer need special permission to travel to the United States.
Why? He is being removed off the United States Terror Watch list.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner and international symbol of freedom - Nelson Mandela s was flagged on U.S. terrorist watch lists and needs special permission to visit the USA. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice calls the situation “embarrassing,” and some members of Congress vowed to fix it.
The requirement applies to former South African leader Mandela and other members of South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC), the once-banned anti-Apartheid organization. In the 1970s and ’80s, the ANC was officially designated a terrorist group by the country’s ruling white minority. Other countries, including the United States, followed suit.
Because of this, Rice told a Senate committee recently, her department has to issue waivers for ANC members to travel to the USA.
If the Occupation was to end in palestine and there is finally peace in the middle east, could leaders of HAMAS be next to get off the list?
July 1st, 2008 at 11:25 pm
How embarrassing for United States to be so out of date, if even Nelson Mandela has trouble getting off the terrorist watch list, can you imagine how many other innocent people are affected by this.
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:29 pm
There are plenty of innocent individuals on that list. Maher Arar being one of the highly profiled.