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"keep your friends close but your enemies closer"

Posted by nmatt@aol.com on April 01, 2004

i think the person who orginally said "keep your friends close but your enimies closer" was Mobutu, a ruler of Zaire\the Congo who manipulated several politicians into giving him money and allowing him to stay in power