"Proceeds from the concert - for which there were 46,664 tickets - are going to 46664, the AIDS charity named for the number Mandela wore in prison."
What got me thinking about it was this news brief:
"Mandela taken off terror watch list
President Bush signed a bill yesterday allowing Nelson Mandela to visit the United States without the secretary of state having to certify that he is not a terrorist. The law removes from US immigration watch lists the names of the former South African leader and others on the list because of a relationship with the African National Congress. The organization has been South Africa's ruling party since 1994, when a democracy replaced a white-ruled state. During the Cold War, the West considered the ANC a communist organization (AP July 2 2008)."
It is just so odd to me that the Anti Christ is the guy removing Mandela from the "terrorist" list.
This after the CIA went to so much trouble to inform the South African government of Mandela's whereabouts?
"The Central Intelligence Agency played an important role in the arrest in 1962 of Nelson Mandela, the African National Congress leader who was jailed for nearly 28 years.
The intelligence service, using an agent inside the African National Congress, provided South African security officials with precise information about Mr. Mandela's activities that enabled the police to arrest him, said the account by the Cox News Service.
The report, scheduled for publication on Sunday, quoted an unidentified retired official who said that a senior C.I.A. officer told him shortly after Mr. Mandela's arrest: ''We have turned Mandela over to the South African Security branch. We gave them every detail, what he would be wearing, the time of day, just where he would be.''
The account said the American intelligence agency was willing to assist in the apprehension of Mr. Mandela because it was concerned that a successful nationalist movement threatened a friendly South African Govenment.
A retired South African intelligence official, Gerard Ludi, was quoted in the report as saying that at the time of Mr. Mandela's capture, the C.I.A. had put an undercover agent into the inner circle of the African National Congress group in Durban."
Also see: Was AIDS Man-Made?
