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The editor of the Zimbabwe Independent Iden Wetherell said although there was gap in New York’s landscape following the 11 September bombing of the twin towers, the resilience that the people had shown would see an urban renewal.

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A State prosecutor in the case of human rights activist Jestina Mukoko is said to have told a United States embassy official that attorney-general Johannes Tomana and the government’s chief prosecutor Florence Ziyambi were scared of Mukoko’s case.

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President Robert Mugabe said only a dead imperialist was a good one. He said this when he lambasted the West for refusing to lift sanctions on Zimbabwe.

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Journalists who met in May 2009 in Kariba at a stakeholders conference made 13 recommendations one of which was to repeal the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act and another was not to insult the Prime Minister.

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Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, who was under pressure from his lieutenants to deal with President Robert Mugabe, pressured Mugabe to release human rights activist Jestina Mukoko and others after they had been sent back to jail on the instructions of attorney-general Johannes Tomana.

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Iden Wetherell, then editor of the Zimbabwe Independent, said he hoped judgement on the terrorists who had attacked the Pentagon would come soon because terrorist everywhere deserved the same robust response.

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Iden Wetherell, a senior editor at The Independent and widely believed to be the writer of the satirical Muckraker, told United States embassy officials in Harare more than 10 years ago that Emmerson Mnangagwa was a “nimble operator” and “one of the most intelligent men in government”.

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Journalist Iden Wetherell said President Robert Mugabe and then Speaker of Parliament Emmerson Mnangagwa needed each other that is why Mugabe had brought back Mnangagwa from political oblivion after he lost in the 2000 parliamentary elections.

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The deputy editor of the Zimbabwe Independent, Iden Wetherell, told United States embassy officials that he did not see anyone in the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front with the stature or backing to challenge President Robert Mugabe, or even form a lasting government should Mugabe step down.

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