Humour
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| Obama-Ahmadinejad TV Duel |
| Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calls on US presidents Barrack Obama to face him in a television one –on –one debate to see who has the best solutions for the world’s problems.
“Towards the end of summer we will hopefully be there for the United Nation General Assembly and i will be ready for one- on- one talks with Mr. Obama in front of the media of course,” Ahmadinejad told a conference of Iranian expatriates in Tehran. “We will offer solution for the world’s issues to see whose solutions are better.”
The proposal comes as Iran deals with a new wave of international sanctions driven by Washington aimed at putting pressure on the Islamic Republic over its nuclear programme. Ahmadenejad suggested such a debate last September, which was not taken up by Washington he said Obama predecessor, George W Bush, had declined similar invitation because he was “scared”
Iran says its nuclear programme is a peaceful bid to produce electricity. But its uranium enrichment activities, a process which can have both civilian and military uses, has fed fears in some countries that it is trying to build a nuclear weapon.
In his speech, the president mocked the sanctions and the potential for a military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities, an option the US and Israel say they do not rule out.
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| Museveni’s Woes on the Upswing |
| THE Commander in Chief of Uganda’s armed forces, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, his past life as a soldier notwithstanding, must be seething with anger.
When it is not the dreaded Al Qaeda and their offspring Al Shabab exporting their kind of wry humour to Kampala and bombing some 76 innocent souls to oblivion, it is his security men trying to keep from his inner cordon security men guarding a man who foresees a United States of Africa through rather dark shades-read one Muammar Gadaffi. (You can safely say he takes a dim view of the world, quite literally!)
During the heads of state conference in Kampala last month, security men of the two extra-ordinary men engaged in a scuffle over what was later termed as an attempt by Gadaffi’s men to violate the territory of their host President, styled “cordon” in security lingo.
Now, when gentlemen who are known to be crackshots and snipers, trained in VIP protection are engaged in a scuffle, there is more than just a punch-up and it poses serious questions, which we shall not ask here. Suffice it to say another scuffle had occurred in 2008, again pitting Lybian and Ugandan security men at another summit, again in Kampala, and again in similar circumstances...
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| How I almost Missed the Africa Union Summit |
| Following the incident where I was roughed up by Joe Biden’s men-in-black, I have been cautious not to be over-enthusiastic when it comes to providing my protocol services to Minister Mambo wa Kigeni and the ministry of Foreign and Overseas Affairs in general. For, those across-the-Atlantic security men with bulging ambits would have actually dispatched me to the hereafter simply for my appetite and zeal to shake Joe’s hand and hopefully drop in a quick one for a green card, my ultimate passport to Uncle Sam’s land of milk and honey.
For the better part of last month, I was in this state of acquiescence; arriving home before the 7.00 pm, like all responsible men of the house do. I was doing this with so much dedication, the airport incident providing the sobering background for the need for me to keep to my protocol job without overreaching or having delusions of grandeur.
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