Diplomats from the United States and Great Britain who were investigating political violence in Zimbabwe were attacked by police and "war veterans" - a group of thugs fanatically loyal tp President Robert Mugabe - and are still being held:The war veterans threatened to burn the vehicles with my people inside unless they got out of the vehicles and accompanied the police to a station nearby," McGee said, saying he was in touch with the group by mobile phone. Five Americans, four Britons and three Zimbabweans were in the three-car convoy, he said.U.S. Embassy spokesman Paul Engelstad said the group was still being held some six hours after being stopped at a roadblock just north of Harare.A British government spokesman later said the British diplomats had been released unharmed. But Downing Street spokesman Michael Ellam did not discuss the status of the American diplomats.The opposition and rights groups have accused Mugabe of orchestrating violence and...(Read Full Post)