Nelson Mandela removed from US terror list - The Telegraph/UK (2008)
I posted this on another thread about Nelson Mandela and thought it worthy of its own.
Terra! Terra! Terra!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/southafrica/2233256/Nelson-Mandela-removed-from-US-terror-list.html
George W Bush signed the bill in time for the Nobel Peace Prize winner's 90th birthday on July 18. Ronald Reagan had originally placed the ANC on the list in the 1980s .
When a similar bill passed the House of Representatives last month, Barbara Lee, a California Democrat who co-sponsored it, said she was "especially pleased we are taking this important step to finally right this inexcusable wrong."
In April, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged a Senate committee to remove the restrictions on the ANC party, calling it a "rather embarrassing matter that I still have to waive in my own counterpart, the foreign minister of South Africa, not to mention the great leader Nelson Mandela."
Prior to the removal of his name from the watch list Mr Mandela had to get special certification from the US secretary of state that he is not a terrorist in order to visit the country.
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