HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- President Robert Mugabe described the U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs as ''an idiot'' after an acrimonious meeting between the two at an African summit in Libya, Zimbabwe's state media reported Monday.
The state Herald newspaper carried the remarks after a briefing Mugabe gave to Zimbabwean reporters at the end of last week's summit of the continentwide African Union.
U.S. Embassy officials in Zimbabwe and Ethiopia, where Assistant Secretary of State Johnnie Carson is visiting, would not comment on the remarks.
According to the Herald paper, Mugabe said nothing came out of those talks.''You wouldn't speak to an idiot of that nature. I was very angry with him, and he thinks he could dictate to us what to do,'' Mugabe was quoted as saying.
He said regional leaders supported the formation of a power-sharing government in February and then ''you have the likes of little fellows like Carson saying 'do this, do that'.''''Who is he? I hope he is not speaking for Obama. I told him he was a shame, a great shame being an African American,'' Mugabe was quoted as saying.
Last we heard from Mugabe he was meeting with fellow tyrant Bashir of the Sudan. Anyway the man is a monster, no other way to describe it. I guess the trillion dollar note he created didn't ease his problems.
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