New York police may escort Ahmadinejad to Ground Zero - Summary
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New York - New York police may have to escort Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during a possible visit to Ground Zero when he is in the city to attend United Nations meetings next week, New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Wednesday. The New York Sun had reported the Iranian mission to the UN has requested assistance from the New York City Police Department and the Secret Service for possible visit to the site of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center. Ahmadinejad is scheduled to arrive Monday to attend UN meetings and address the UN General Assembly on Tuesday. Kelly told local news reporters that he was discussing the possibility of Ahmadinejad's visit with the US Secret Service, which is responsible for the safety of government leaders visiting New York City. "There has been some interest expressed in his visiting the area," Kelly said. "It's something that we are prepared to handle if in fact it does happen." The presidents of major US Jewish organizations said Wednesday that Ahmadinejad should be barred from the World Trade Center site in New York. "For the president of the leading state-sponsor of terrorism to visit this sacred place would violate its sanctity and the memory of those who perished there," the organizations said in a statement. Ahmadinejad has called for the destruction of Israel and is at loggerheads with the UN Security Council, which seeks to prevent Iran from manufacturing weapons of mass destruction as it has obtained high uranium grade from its advanced conversion technology. The Jewish groups issued the statement even though there was no certainty that Ahmadinejad would visit Ground Zero, where more than 2,700 people were killed in the terrorist attacks. The statement asked the UN to restrict Ahmadinejad's movements to the UN premises and bar him from visiting places of US historic and symbolic significance. It called on President George W Bush and New York government officials to prevent "this outrage."
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Ground Zero & Laughing
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TomTom ,
Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:38:06 GMT
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Ahmadinejad is laughing and so is Al Qaeda at the US for showing no backbone either on the world stage or in their own country to this admirer of Hitler.Do we really think that by letting him go to Ground Zero that it will change anything other than him gaining more clout on the world stage. If this is allowed to happen he will only be embolden to continue his quest to establish the Muslim empire as a force to be reckon with, along with his desire to obtain nuclear weapons, because once he does it will only get worse for the rest of the world.
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hallowed ground
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Neil ,
Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:41:40 GMT
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No way. That sacred site is a living memorial to all that threatens the U.S. of A! It should not be used for a cheap photo op except by the current president and former mayor.
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Ahmadinijad visit to Ground Zero
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Russ Thayer ,
Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:37:56 GMT
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The Jews apparently feel that U.S. foreign policy should be dictated by Israeli interests, and since it has been, why shoudn't they? This insanity needs to be shoveled out of the White House along with the current administration.
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I don't have a problem.
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Keith ,
Thu, 20 Sep 2007 07:50:03 GMT
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I don't see what all the fuss is about. He didn't attack us on September 11th. He is in NY already and this is in theory a free country. So why not let him? We have the craziest ideas about diplomacy nowadays. I don't see how it is an "outrage" for the leader of a struggling country on the brink of war to try and extend an olive branch to a country "chomping at the bit" to invade it. We've have to snap out of this mass hysteria and look at things objectively or we're doomed to keep running the same loop over and over and over again. Nobody likes the playground bully, and eventually he backs the wrong kid into a corner and gets his clock cleaned.
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Why not?
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Bob ,
Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:16:50 GMT
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Iran wasn't behind the terrorist attacks - neither was Iraq for that matter, so why not let him visit the site.
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Danger
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Edward T. Palsyn ,
Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:48:14 GMT
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Please keep the Iranian president away from Ground Zero. I do not trust him, he is very Bad.
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Stop Terorrist visiting Ground Zero
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Alex ,
Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:13:59 GMT
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One side of Islamo fascism is to look pasionate and caring. Islamic Republic hand-in hands of Terorrists in iraq, Lebonan, Afghanistan and else where upporting as much as they can to tear down civilizations. Stopping this terorrist form visiting Ground Zero is duty of any Americn who care about this geat land.
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outrage
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Trint ,
Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:34:51 GMT
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I think it is an insult to everyone who suffered that tragedy to even entertain the idea of ahmadinjad visiting the sacred site of twin towers. This just goes to show how far this great nation has been infiltrated by far left liberals and a defunct united nations. Why don't we have osama come with him. Atleast then we could cut down the expenses of the secret service.
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Ahmadinejad to Ground Zero
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ray ,
Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:32:40 GMT
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When he flew over the site an Iranian-American passenger heard him sy to his aides: Cool! if that what a coupla planes can do then I can hardly wait to see what a nuke can do
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Ahmadinejad's visit to Ground Zero
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Dave Smith ,
Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:28:51 GMT
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Oh come on. Let him visit the site. Let's show, for a change, that we're big enough to allow it. Who knows, it might even have a positive effect on him.
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