The FBI?! And why would the FBI run after me??
More news for a Congo buff like you:
The murder of Laurent Kabila - by Ludo Martens President of the Workers' Party of Belgium
Posted Saturday, March 3, 2001
Source : The Guardian - Communist Party of Australia
ecadre.net
The timing of the assassination of Laurent Désiré Kabila is intriguing indeed.... Just before GW Bush and C. Powell became "operational" and fully in control of the foreign matters... I believe both French and Belgian authorities wanted to get rid of Kabila (one of his "business" associates got slugged in Paris in December 2000 [*]). Of course, some powerful Congolese vested interests (ie the former beneficiaries of Mobutu's spoils system) have also welcomed the murder of Kabila. And, as the US was still in a transitory stage (Clinton/Bush), the pro-European/anti-Kabila party within the CIA turned a blind eye on the whole plot.... Your take?
[*] obsac.com
The Congo Story: From Lumumba to Mzee Kabila
The Nation (Nairobi)
EDITORIAL
April 22, 2001
Posted to the web April 21, 2001
Alfred N. Mutua
Kinshasa
On a chilly night on January 17, 1961, the formerly elected prime minister of Congo, Patrice Lumumba, and two of his former ministers, were dragged from their holding cells to a tree. On that fateful day in the copper rich district of Katanga, a Belgian officer, acting on orders from Kinshasa, gave an order and Lumumba was sprayed with bullets.
Exactly 40 years later, on January 16, 2001, Laurent Desire Kabila, a man from Katanga, was in Kinshasa's Marble Palace preparing to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Lumumba's death. Suddenly, one of his body guards turned and, without speaking, sprayed him with bullets.
As Kabila fell, he gave pause to a movement of Lumumbaism which he had resurrected in his march from his Katanga homeland to drive the technocrat Mobutu SeseSeko from Kinshasa. To many Congolese, Kabila's death was a repeat of an old-age colonial legacy and as in Lumumba's death, they are pointing accusing fingers at the Americans and Belgians.
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