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Mika

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10. No truer friend does Mandela have than Fidel Castro.
Mon Jun 10, 2013, 01:54 PM
Jun 2013

Both are giants of their time.




http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2008/02/20/castromandela_gallery__556x400,0.jpg


BTW he is on the terra list ...

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WASHINGTON — Nobel Peace Prize winner and international symbol of freedom Nelson Mandela is flagged on U.S. terrorist watch lists and needs special permission to visit the USA. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice calls the situation "embarrassing," and some members of Congress vow to fix it.
The requirement applies to former South African leader Mandela and other members of South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC), the once-banned anti-Apartheid organization

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-04-30-watchlist_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip




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