Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Ex-amici dell'occidente: Idi Amin

Interessante.   Non lo avrei mai sospettato, anche se la lista di
tiranni portati al potere perche' fanno comodo agli occidentali (che
poi avranno abbondantemente l'occasione di pentirsene) e' piuttosto
lunga.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/article2157346.ece
If the British did have a hand in the events of 25 January 1971, the
plotters neglected to tell the British high commissioner in Kampala,
Richard Slater. Foreign Office telegrams reveal a man shocked and
confused at reports of shooting in the streets. As the day rolls on,
Slater reports that the man who knows all about the coup is Colonel
Bar-Lev, the Israeli defence attaché - the ambassador was away.
Quoting Bar-Lev as the source, Slater reports: "In the course of last
night, General Amin caused to be arrested all officers in the armed
forces sympathetic to Obote ... Amin is now firmly in control of all
elements of [the] army ... the Israeli defence attaché discounts any
possibility of moves against Amin."
In the following days, the Israelis take the lead. Bar-Lev is in
constant contact with Amin. Slater tells London that Bar-Lev has
explained to him "in considerable detail [how] ... all potential foci
of resistance, both up-country and in Kampala, had been eliminated."
How does he know this? The Uganda military radio network had been
provided by the Israelis. Soon afterwards, Amin made his first trip as
president - to Israel.
At the time of the coup, Slater had recently declared that Amin had
"just enough intelligence to realise he couldn't run the country". He
also said that he was fed up with the president, Milton Obote, who had
taken a strong stand against British arms sales to South Africa, and
was threatening to nationalise British companies in Uganda.
The suspicion at the time was that the British prime minister, Edward
Heath, wanted Obote out of the way at the Commonwealth Conference then
taking place in Singapore, where arms sales to South Africa would be a
hot topic. But elsewhere in Africa, Britain tolerated critics. In
Tanzania, President Julius Nyerere had nationalised British companies
and was even more anti-apartheid than Obote. But when he had been
threatened by a coup, the British sent in the Marines to keep him to
power. The British never tried to remove President Kenneth Kaunda in
Zambia, despite his critical stance on South Africa.
But why should Israel be interested in Uganda? Slater never directly
accused Israel of being behind the coup, but he did explain why they
might have been. In the Six-Day War, Sudan had backed the Arab cause,
and Israel wanted to take the fight to its enemies. They were
supporting rebellion in southern Sudan, supplying the Anya-Nya fighters
with weapons. As Slater said: "They do not want the rebels to win. They
want to keep them fighting."
Obote had been trying to make peace in Sudan, but, unknown to him,
Amin, then head of his army, had been secretly supplying the Israeli
weapons to the rebels. Amin had good friends in Israel, and suddenly
the Israelis had the opportunity to remove the man who was trying to
broker peace, and put their man in power.

On 19 Jan 2007 08:32:06 -0800, 
luno...@gmail.com
 wrote:
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Prendi la pasticchina rossa!!! 
Subito giorgino  prima che la crisi sovrasti...
MMAX
-- 
http://bloggoanchio.splinder.com

Interessante.   Non lo avrei mai sospettato
Cosa, caro *FESSO* di un Torrieri?  Che vi sono degli idioti
complottisti come questo "Richard Slater"?
-Stefano