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Zimbabwe siezes US plane with military materiel on it. Bungled CIA plot?

Mar 9, 2004 12:33AM PST
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/03/08/zimbabwe.plane/index.html

Authorities in Zimbabwe have taken 64 people identified as "suspected mercenaries" into custody and seized a U.S.-registered jetliner carrying military material, a police spokesman said Monday.

The jet's owner is listed in U.S. aviation records as Rantoul, Kansas-based Dodson Aviation. But Butch Holtgrieve, a company spokesman, said the aircraft was recently sold to a South African company which he did not identify.

The United States has been very critical of the government of Zimbabwe and especially President Robert Mugabe."
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Re: Bungled CIA plot? I'm surprised James...
Mar 9, 2004 12:40AM PST

Given your usual politics, I'm surprised to hear you use "CIA" and "plot" in the same headline!

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Why? Everyone knows that's what they do. [nt]
Mar 9, 2004 12:48AM PST

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