New York, NY – Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad requested to visit Ground Zero during an upcoming trip to New York. That request was rejected Wednesday. But a source says that the decision may not stop him.
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A law enforcement source says the Iranian mission to the United Nations has informed the Secret Service that the Iranian president intends to visit Ground Zero Monday at 10 a.m.
The source says regardless of the NYPD’s rejection of the request for a Ground Zero tour, Iran’s president and his entourage will be accompanied by a Secret Service protective detail, a detail provided to all heads of state when they visit the United States. [abc7]
U/D 7:30PM
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will not press his plan — just denied by New York City police for security reasons — to visit ground zero in New York City,
The Iranian leader says he’s skeptical that most Americans view his visit there as insulting as his intention was only to show respect. [cbs]
After the visit to ground zero he will declare that the Tween towers never existed!
We need someone with “american love” to do what they’ve done!
Plane in the WTC = A car smashing into him while he’s at the scene! (believe me: if someone really wants to do it, they sure can)
He just wanted to show respect…
TO THE !$%*#
HIJACKERS!!!
AHMADINEJAD SAYS HE WILL NOT PUSH TO VISIT GROUND ZERO; ‘AMAZED’ GESTURE WOULD INSULT AMERICANS
Thu Sept 20 2007 16:11:22 ET
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will not press his plan — just denied by New York City Police for security reasons — to visit Ground Zero in New York City, he tells 60 MINUTES’ Scott Pelley in an exclusive interview conducted today in Iran. The Iranian leader says he’s “amazed” and skeptical that most Americans view his visit there as insulting as his intention was only to show respect. The interview will be broadcast on 60 MINUTES, Sunday Sept. 23 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS television Network.
An excerpt from the interview follows:
PELLEY: Mr. President, do you intend to press your request to visit the World Trade Center site?
AHMADINEJAD: Well, it was included in my program. If we have the time and the conditions are conducive, I will try to do that.
PELLEY: But the New York Police Department and others do not appear to want you there. Do you intend to go there anyway?
AHMADINEJAD: Well, over there, local officials need to make the necessary coordinations. If they can’t do that, I won’t insist.
PELLEY: Sir, what were you thinking? The World Trade Center site is the most sensitive place in the American heart, and you must have known that visiting there would be insulting to many, many Americans.
AHMADINEJAD: Why should it be insulting?
PELLEY: But the American people, sir, believe that your country is a terrorist nation, exporting terrorism in the world. You must have known that visiting the World Trade Center site would infuriate many Americans.
AHMADINEJAD: Well, I’m amazed. How can you speak for the whole of the American nation?
PELLEY: Well, the American nation–
AHMADINEJAD: You are representing a media and you’re a reporter. The American nation is made up of 300 million people. There are different points of view over there.
Developing…
I don’t see how anyone can be prevented from visiting ground zero. it’s a public street…
Crazy said:
Firstly mr america he is the one who is sendind dailyarms to kil your men and woman! Wake up!!
Secondly in honor of all those who pershid in the holocaust this is more than memorial ceremony stand up once in a lifetime for them. Let’s call on all poloticans to hear us clear and loud and next elections don’t give excuses go and vote these guys out of office!!
ANON
5:20 Great idea about the memorial…
we should let him go there, there is enough former millitery man armed with heavy weapons let them take care of him… 1 bullet in his rotten body will just send him 2 hell, i hope there is a succesfull assasanation on this hitlerist piece of puke, he should be cemented into the WTC memorial in the shape of a airoplane.
THE IRANIAN PRESIDENT WANTS TO VISIT GROUND ZERO SO THAT HE CAN DENY THAT THERE WAS EVER A 9/11 JUST LIKE HE DENY’S THE HAULOCAST..
Let him go if he wants. He needs to see “vus zeine chevre hoben ungemacht”
But under no circumstances should the government of the “great satan”
give him protective escort.
its like someone that has a problem with the kotel but he goes in middle of the night
IT’S A SHAME FOR THE UNITED STATE TO EVEAN LET THIS GUY HITLER IN ARE COUNTRY SHAM SHAME “U.S.A.”!!!!!
BLOOMBERG IS A CHIKEN HE IS A HERO WHEN IT COMES TO TICKETS …….
>Let him come to ground zero….maybe it will awaken something meaningful within him.
> Remember, peace only needs to be made between enemies.
blah blah blah. typical left-wing naive nonsense. When will you people wake and face reality. When the knife is at your throat & you hear someone shouting Allah Akhbar!? I doubt it even then. This country and our civilization is doomed because of dangerous fools like you.
Just because the State Dept has to let him in to the US doesnt mean he has unrestricted travel throughout the US. What if he wanted to take pictures of the bridges, tunnels, other potential targets? Would we let him? The NYPD should put a ring around the WTC GZ site and not allow him in. Period. The Secret Service does not over ride Bloomberg. Guiliani booted Arafat from the UN and Lincoln Center. Bloomberg should should show similar defiance in the face of terror.
This is the guy who bragged he had 58,000 suicide terrorists waiting to respond to an Israeli or American attack. He wants to praise the killers. Bloomberg should have the balls that Guiliani had when he kicked Arafat out of the theatre.
i believe that we must organize a pro israel anti terrorism march in the midst of him while he is in new york perhaps this will be an opportunity to show the world that we the jews wont stand for this intolerable behavior let this post be the first step of this goal perhaps there is a group or an individual who will take this task
where is Rudy G!? to throw him out (like Arafat…..) of the UN!!
one thing is for sure, If he does go there it may change alot of the presidential campaign, and Bloomberg wont be able to pick his head up after this incident.
No Ray Kelly for mayor
see films like “the seige”, “world trade center”, “flight 93” etc, and then decide if it makes sense to have this chaya visit and make a whole big deal about it. As soon as he makes a wrong move, they should arrest him.
this is crazy makes my blood boil just as the day i found out my family members were killed by arabs ym”s
I do not want this disgusting worm going anywhere Ground Zero.
Let him find something else to entertain him, like pontificating to the world for the umpteenth time about Israel, blah blah blah, the Holocaust, blah blah blah, Jews, blah blah blah, etc.
Now he’s found a new site he wants to set his beady gaze on? I lost no loved one on 9/11 B”H but I’m so outraged by this. I can only begin to imagine how others less fortunate than I must rightfully feel about this.
When WWII ended, German and Polish locals were forced to be paraded through the camps so that they could see first hand the horrors that they had supported.
Now, we send our youth to Poland for “March of the Living” and Israel is on best buddy relations with Germany.
Let him come to ground zero….maybe it will awaken something meaningful within him.
Remember, peace only needs to be made between enemies. Part of this means grabbing any opportunity that can ultimately lead to greater mutual understanding between two parties who hate each other.
As distasteful as it is, maybe it takes more courage to try to reach an understanding with someone you hate than it does to wait until an all out war breaks out.
Isn’t this part of our own lessons during these 10 days?
they cant arrest him bec the UN is for everyone its not american
anyone can go to the UN but they can stop him from going around nyc
one day we will regret this just like ossama bin laden
LET HIM GO ALONE
THE SECRET SERVICE SHOULD TELL HIM IF YOU GO YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN MAKE HIM SIGN A PAPER FOR HIS LIFE AND LET HIM GO ALONE
He can’t be arrested because of diplomatic immunity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_immunity
the metirufim ar to my information -invited as special guest to the Iranian gov to the speech Monday in the UN in the honer of the president of Iran and to have a conference wit him in UN
I dont understand why they dont arrest him when he comes. They already deemed him a terrorist, why not arrest him?
don’t be surpriset that if he cant go to grund zero he will send his Jewish flows the metirufim of monsey to go their to represent him !!!
the same risen to go to the Holocaust conference to cover up Nazis and antisemitismwho merders jews and rady to do it agen in the name of knuuas even IT is hisgarus bemus
vs the united states( not only bush it is vs also Clinton and all American politicians
i think the end will be
it will be up to ray kelly
who is always scared and will let him go
bloomberg will say its the NYPD and kelly will let
he has to know if he lets this happen his job os over!!!
Let him go without permission. Then arrest him and deport him for violation of local laws and the US agreement with the UN.
If someone kills him in the process, it’ll save all that effort.
“It is unacceptable for Iranian President Ahmadinejad, who refuses to renounce and end his own country’s support of terrorism, to visit the site of the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil in our nation’s history.”
“Under no circumstances should the NYPD or any other American authority assist President Ahmadinejad in visiting Ground Zero. This is a man who has made threats against America and Israel, is harboring bin Laden’s son and other al-Qaeda leaders, is shipping arms to Iraqi insurgents and is pursuing the development of nuclear weapons. Assisting Ahmadinejad in touring Ground Zero – hallowed ground for all Americans – is outrageous.”
Its a gross slap in the face of the american people for the secret service to allow him to go there.
We should apply masive pressure on the governement to stop this.
HE SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO GO ANYWHERE BUT THE UN
WE SHOULD HAVE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE TO COME OUT TO BLOCK HIM CALL THE MEDIA AND ALL THE ELECTED OFFICIALS
THIS GUY IS THE NEXT HITLER AND HE MUST BE STOPPED
HE SHOULD BE CHARGED FOR KILLING
OUTRAGEOUS!!!! The Iranian government better not complain if he is greeted with mass protests, or if someone decides to take him out.
We should all put tremendous pressure on all our elected officials, on a federal and state level to stop this Rosho from going to ground zero.
Anyone who could provide telephone numbers and email addresses for our elected officials should please provide it to us.
Thank you in advance