---------- From: "Stasi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Peoples War] S.Africa: PCA Congress Underlines UN Role In Combating Terrorism - Xinhua Pan Africanist Congress Underlines UN Role in Combating Terrorism =============================================== Xinhuanet 2002-01-03 23:48:57 JOHANNESBURG, January 3 (Xinhuanet) -- The Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) said on Thursday that the United Nations Security Council was the only proper channel through which a state should be attacked for terrorism. "No country in the world has the authority to bypass the U.N. and fight terrorism with terrorism as the USA and Britain are doing in Afghanistan," PAC deputy president Motsoko Pheko said in a statement. "The USA government must stop behaving as if the world begins with America and ends with America," Pheko added. He also welcomed former South African president Nelson Mandela' s retraction of his earlier unconditional support for the U.S.-led punitive military campaign in Afghanistan. Mandela on Tuesday repudiated his controversial statement that Saudi-born dissident Osama bin Laden had to be held responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States. In a statement released by his office, he said subsequent discussions with his family, friends and advisors had convinced him that his view may be "one-sided and over-stated". Enditem
