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Chavez: If anything happens to me, blame Bush
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says US President George W Bush will be to blame if anything happens to him. He was speaking after US TV evangelist Pat Robertson called for his assassination in comments the US State Department said were "inappropriate". Mr Robertson later apologised saying he was frustrated at Mr Chavez's constant accusations against Washington. A senior representative of America's evangelical Christians says he is trying to meet Mr Chavez to apologise. Mr Chavez said on Friday that Pat Robertson "was expressing the wishes of the US elite". "If anything happens to me then the man responsible will be George W Bush. He will be the assassin," the Venezuelan president said at a public event. "This is pure terrorism." Earlier, the Rev Ted Haggard, president of the National Association of Evangelicals, said he was seeking a meeting with Mr Chavez to distance US Christians from the remarks. He is in Mexico, where he is meeting a friend of Mr Chavez, and if all goes well he will travel on to Caracas for an encounter that Mr Haggard says he wants to secure assurances from Mr Chavez about the safety of American The Venezuelan government temporarily suspended permits for foreign missionaries on Friday so regulations for preachers in the country could be tightened. "We were already working on this, but these declarations have made us speed things up," said chief of the Justice Ministry's religious affairs unit, Carlos Gonzalez. Posted by: Jackal 2005-08-27 |
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