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09-18-2007, 09:44 PM
New York Braces for Ahmadinejad
http://www.nysun.com/article/62814
By BENNY AVNI (http://www.nysun.com/authors/Benny+Avni)
Staff Reporter of the Sun
September 18, 2007
(AuGmENTor: If ya ask me, the man has balls to come here. Bush could kill a few birds with one nuke here)
A major drama is shaping up over the planned appearance at the United Nations (http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=United+Nations) next week of the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=Mahmoud+Ahmadinejad), with the Jewish community scheduling a protest rally, Mitt Romney (http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=Mitt+Romney) calling on the world body to ban the tyrant, and the U.N. Security Council (http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=United+Nations+Security+C ouncil) set to consider whether to increase sanctions against the mullahs for their uranium enrichment program.
In Vienna (http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=Vienna), the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=International+Atomic+Ener gy+Agency), Mohamed ElBaradei (http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=Mohamed+ElBaradei), is emerging as the top defender of Iran (http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=Iran), arguing at the IAEA's annual assembly yesterday that just as no weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq (http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=Iraq), Iran does not present a nuclear menace now. He has been raging against any punitive measures, signing secret pacts with Tehran (http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=Tehran), and directly confronting not only America (http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=United+States), Britain, and Germany (http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=Germany) but also France (http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=France), where the Quai D'Orsay is warning of war.
But here in New York, the mood at Turtle Bay is less predictable than in the past, in part because, in sharp contrast to a former U.N. chief, Kofi Annan, Secretary-General Ban has signaled he may side with the West this time. And a Jewish community leadership, animated in part by the success Mr. Ahmadinejad has had in finding allies within the political debate in America, has scheduled a rally on Monday in front of the United Nations.
"It's a message to the world leaders about their responsibility," a vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Malcolm Hoenlein, said. "This is somebody who violated the United Nations charter and should not be given that platform."
Mr. Ahmadinejad is scheduled to speak at the U.N. General Assembly next week as the U.N. Security Council considers whether to increase sanctions against Iran for its uranium enrichment program. In calling for a ban on his visit, Mr. Romney said it was "simply unacceptable to bring a man to the world stage who has called for the elimination of another nation." The former governor of Massachusetts, a contender for the Republican presidential nomination who spoke outside St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan yesterday, was referring to past statements by Mr. Ahmadinejad that Israel should be "wiped off the map."
Mr. Romney last year refused to assign a police escort to Mr. Ahmadinejad's predecessor, Mohammed Khatami, when he visited Harvard University for a speaking engagement. On the day Mr. Ahmadinejad is due to arrive, September 24, members of the U.S. Marine Corps will flood Midtown. A spokesman said their presence was not timed to coincide with his arrival. The Marines are filming an advertising campaign in Times Square to boost recruitment and will be performing silent drills, according to the Marines Web site.
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http://www.nysun.com/article/62814
By BENNY AVNI (http://www.nysun.com/authors/Benny+Avni)
Staff Reporter of the Sun
September 18, 2007
(AuGmENTor: If ya ask me, the man has balls to come here. Bush could kill a few birds with one nuke here)
A major drama is shaping up over the planned appearance at the United Nations (http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=United+Nations) next week of the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=Mahmoud+Ahmadinejad), with the Jewish community scheduling a protest rally, Mitt Romney (http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=Mitt+Romney) calling on the world body to ban the tyrant, and the U.N. Security Council (http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=United+Nations+Security+C ouncil) set to consider whether to increase sanctions against the mullahs for their uranium enrichment program.
In Vienna (http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=Vienna), the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=International+Atomic+Ener gy+Agency), Mohamed ElBaradei (http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=Mohamed+ElBaradei), is emerging as the top defender of Iran (http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=Iran), arguing at the IAEA's annual assembly yesterday that just as no weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq (http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=Iraq), Iran does not present a nuclear menace now. He has been raging against any punitive measures, signing secret pacts with Tehran (http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=Tehran), and directly confronting not only America (http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=United+States), Britain, and Germany (http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=Germany) but also France (http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=France), where the Quai D'Orsay is warning of war.
But here in New York, the mood at Turtle Bay is less predictable than in the past, in part because, in sharp contrast to a former U.N. chief, Kofi Annan, Secretary-General Ban has signaled he may side with the West this time. And a Jewish community leadership, animated in part by the success Mr. Ahmadinejad has had in finding allies within the political debate in America, has scheduled a rally on Monday in front of the United Nations.
"It's a message to the world leaders about their responsibility," a vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Malcolm Hoenlein, said. "This is somebody who violated the United Nations charter and should not be given that platform."
Mr. Ahmadinejad is scheduled to speak at the U.N. General Assembly next week as the U.N. Security Council considers whether to increase sanctions against Iran for its uranium enrichment program. In calling for a ban on his visit, Mr. Romney said it was "simply unacceptable to bring a man to the world stage who has called for the elimination of another nation." The former governor of Massachusetts, a contender for the Republican presidential nomination who spoke outside St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan yesterday, was referring to past statements by Mr. Ahmadinejad that Israel should be "wiped off the map."
Mr. Romney last year refused to assign a police escort to Mr. Ahmadinejad's predecessor, Mohammed Khatami, when he visited Harvard University for a speaking engagement. On the day Mr. Ahmadinejad is due to arrive, September 24, members of the U.S. Marine Corps will flood Midtown. A spokesman said their presence was not timed to coincide with his arrival. The Marines are filming an advertising campaign in Times Square to boost recruitment and will be performing silent drills, according to the Marines Web site.
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