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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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Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa was one of the major obstacles to the rule of law in Zimbabwe because he was close to President Robert Mugabe and was a political partisan rather than an independent lawyer.

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The history between the African National Congress of South Africa and the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front was not as close as people think, South Africa’s High Commission to Zimbabwe Zola Skweyiya said.

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Co-Ministers of Home Affairs Giles Mutsekwa and Kembo Mohadi said they worked well together perhaps because they were both ex-military and as a result, their ministry was functioning smoothly.

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President Robert Mugabe cannot fire central bank governor Gideon Gono because he knows where the Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front skeletons are buried.

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Most of the 32 people that were abducted in October 2008, including activist Jestina Mukoko, were released on bail less than a month after the formation of the inclusive government.

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