Mugabe threatens to expel U.S. ambassador

Sun May 25, 2008 11:34am EDT
 
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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Sunday accused U.S. ambassador James McGee of political interference and threatened to expel him from the southern African nation.

"He says he fought in Vietnam, but fighting in Vietnam does not give him the right to interfere in our domestic affairs. I am just waiting to see if he makes one more step wrong. He will get out," Mugabe said in a campaign rally.

"As tall as he is, if he continues to do that I will kick him out of the country."

Mugabe also said the State Department's top diplomat for Africa, Jendayi Frazer, behaved like a prostitute for suggesting that Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change and its leader Morgan Tsvangirai had won the March 29 elections.

"You saw this little American girl trotting around like a prostitute celebrating that the MDC had won. A disgraceful act," Mugabe said.

(Reporting by Cris Chinaka, editing by Paul Simao and Jon Boyle)

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