Politics? I'm sick of f***ing politics! EVERYWHERE!
"Zimbabwe says military leader shot; He is wounded; uncertainty in nation builds" by Celia W. Dugger, New York Times | December 17, 2008
JOHANNESBURG - A Zimbabwean military commander who belongs to President Robert Mugabe's inner circle and is widely regarded as a main organizer of the brutal crackdown on the political opposition earlier this year was shot in the hand on Saturday during a nighttime ambush, the state-controlled media reported yesterday.
Mugabe's government said that the shooting was an assassination attempt and part of a broader effort to destabilize the country, while a senior opposition official said in an interview that he believed it grew out of an internecine battle within ZANU-PF, the ruling party, over who will succeed the 84-year-old Mugabe, in power for 28 years.
In the feverish atmosphere of Harare, the capital, the shooting added yet another ominous and opaque episode to Zimbabwe's unfolding political drama, sent a jolt of fear through opposition and civic circles, and sparked a fresh round of rumors that a state of emergency or military coup could be possible....
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