Peter RogersPalestinian Denied Ambo & Mugabe Gone?
February 15th 2008 09:25
February 15, 2008.
* A Palestinian woman was allegedly refused access to an ambulance at an Israeli military checkpoint, and consequently died in her village soon after. The woman, named Fawziya Qabb and who subsided in the occupied West Bank, is a cruel casualty of the uncivilised region.
A military source said the soldiers at the checkpoint were unaware of the woman's circumstances. Whether this is true or not, the fact that the communication between the woman and the medical staff, via the soldiers was inefficient, and quite possibly, non-existent.
Local witnesses said the husband pleaded with soldiers at the Jarushiya checkpoint near the town of Tulkarm to let his wife get to an ambulance waiting to take her to a Palestinian hospital but they ignored him.
Dear, dear, dear..
* Meanwhile, for the first time in decades, Zimbabwe's controversial leader, Robert Mugabe, will face a genuine challenge when his country goes to the polls next month.
The President's former finance minister, Simba Makoni, is running as an independent and is seen as a real threat to Mr Mugabe. Perhaps, not even election rigging and opposition-killings will keep that bastard Mugabe in power. His time is nye: we can only hope.
* And finally, a portion of Papua New Guinea's landowners are proposing to protest the government, as they want a copper mine near the sacred Kokoda Track, but the Australian Government is pushing to have the site heritage listed.
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