Iran’s Ahmadinejad To Visit Ground Zero?
He asked if he could, and there was some confusion earlier when an NYPD spokesman said he would be, but it looks like he’s being denied the opportunity to go there.
An advance team for the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, asked earlier this month that he be allowed to lay a wreath at the World Trade Center site during the opening of the United Nations General Assembly next week, but the request was denied, New York City police officials said today.
The request, which was made at a meeting that included the Secret Service and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, was denied for reasons of security and safety, police officials said, adding that Mr. Ahmadinejad’s aides had asked that he be allowed into the pit, where construction is taking place.
Earlier today, Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly had said that Iranian officials had made a “formal request” that Mr. Ahmadinejad be permitted to visit ground zero and that the department, in coordination with the Secret Service, was discussing the matter with officials of the Iranian Mission to the United Nations…
A short while later, around 4:15 p.m., the Police Department’s spokesman, Paul J. Browne, said that Mr. Kelly had misspoke and that police commanders had already decided that a visit to ground zero by Mr. Ahmadinejad was not feasible.
You’d think the Bush administration would have nipped this in the bud before it even got to the point where it was up to the NYPD to make the call. Doesn’t the State Department handle issuing visas to visiting dignitaries?
In the past Ahmadinejad and nasty terrorist-supporting dictators like him have been given license only to travel to the UN headquarters, their hotel and whatever airport they arrived at/departed from. That seems appropriate to me.
Because as an American, I don’t think a Jew-hating, terrorist-loving monster like Ahmadinejad (who has blamed 9/11 on both Jews and the Bush administration) should be allowed anywhere in this country with the exception of the UN. And I say that if the fools at the world body want him there let them set him up a cot or something.
I also would like to see Ahmadinejihad get arrested. There are plenty of people willing to identify him. This is a man whose country is training people to become terrorists. He is a terrorist and he funds terrorism. SO why not arrest him? Why are we tolerating terrorism?
I think that he ought to be arrested but this is a pleasant surprise.. denied.
I’d like to see W sit right in the front row when he and chavez are in nyc. I’d like to see them call him the devil again.
Hi,
Just some FYI:
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Friday
Freedom’s Watch President Bradley A. Blakeman released a statement and a copy of the print advertisement it has requested to be run in the Monday edition of the New York Times.
“Freedom’s Watch could not sit back and allow a terrorist to come to
America masquerading as a world leader. We have an obligation to warn the
world of the dangers of a nuclear Iran and to uncover the true intent, that
being, the destruction of the United States and the State of Israel.
Let’s be clear, Iran today kills American soldiers in Iraq and they will not stop
there,” said Bradley A. Blakeman, President of Freedom’s Watch.
The text of the advertisement follows:
Ahmadinejad Is A Terrorist
Columbia University is wrong to give him a platform.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad threatens our nation and the
freedoms we value. He has supported attacks on our soldiers and our allies.
He should be treated as the terrorist that he is.
Yet, while Columbia gives a terrorist like Ahmadinejad a platform to
speak, they refuse to allow the ROTC on campus.
What has happened to this prestigious university?
People who support killing Americans are welcome. But the military that
defends them is not.
Columbia should be ashamed of its actions.
Freedom’s Watch knows that America and the forces of freedom are right.
We know the threat of terrorism is real. And we know Democracy must
prevail.
The terrorists and their appeasers are wrong.
“And God willing, with the force of God behind it, we shall soon
experience a world without the United States and Zionism.”
– Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
(CNN, 10/27/05)
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Thank You Freedom’s Watch For Taking A Stand For OUR Country And Troops!
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Peace!
Dan
General David Betray Us
Another reason for the USA to get out of the UN, which is just a stage for greedy thugs!
Kevin: I agree!
The United States out of the U.N. and the United Nations out of the United States – now!