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...carrying Togo's national team, killing three people. The squad was traveling in the restive Cabinda region of Angola to play in the African Cup of Nations tournament, a tune-up for this summer's World Cup in South Africa. Separatist rebels apologized for the attack, explaining that an Angolan convoy had been their intended target...
Still, South Africa's success or failure shouldn't be written off five months before the first ball is kicked. But that's exactly what has happened following the Jan. 8 attack on a bus carrying the Togolese national team in the northern Angolan province of Cabinda, where an Angolan rebel group killed three people - the bus driver, a coach and the team's press officer - and injured at least two players on their way to an Africa Cup of Nations match. Even though the attack took place in a country other than South Africa, Britain's Daily Mirror declared...
There is just one sense in which the Angolan attack is a pre-World Cup warning: it heightens concerns that the event will be targeted by bad journalists as ignorance continues to rage in the troubled profession...
...class may wind up discredited if too many old corruption cases are dredged up now. Earlier this week, several public figures - including former Interior Minister and Chirac confidant Charles Pasqua and Jean-Christophe Mitterrand, son of former President François Mitterrand - were convicted of illegally supplying arms to Angolan rebels in the 1990s. In responding to his guilty verdict and one-year prison sentence, Pasqua said that many former and current members of government knew about the arms sales, as well as several other illegal schemes. The comments suggested that Pasqua expected political help in the case...
...some OPEC leaders simply ignore their quotas, because they need every penny they can earn from oil. Among the bad boys: Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose oil revenues offset the impact from Western sanctions and help finance their vote-getting social programs. Angolan officials this month told OPEC they needed an exemption from their quota of 1.5 million bbl. a day, since companies like Chevron and Total have invested billions in drilling off Angola's coast, and the country - most of whose people live in dire poverty - could potentially pump about 2.3 million...