Wednesday, July 2, 2008

US to take Mandela off terror list

The US Senate has approved a bill to remove former South African president Nelson Mandela from the US terror watch list, lawmakers said.

President George W Bush stated that he his cautiously pleased with the decision because it means those resources allocated to tracking and monitoring the frail 90 year old 'terrorist-no-more' can now finally be assigned to tracking down Osama Bin Laden.

"That's one less wheel on the axis of evil," said the President, "but fortunately we carry a heap of spares in the boot!"