Ten Things You Didn't Know About Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Yahoo! News/U.S. News & World Report ^ | September 26, 2007 | Staff

[2ndDivisionVet]

Know your enemy.

[Cindy]

RECAP:

"5. As a student, Ahmadinejad was politically active. Although religious activism was repressed under the shah, Ahmadinejad and his fellow protesters produced leaflets denouncing the shah using a printing press hidden in his family's home. Later, Ahmadinejad joined the ultraconservative faction of the Office for Strengthening Unity, the radical student group that grew out of the 1979 Islamic Revolution and staged the capture of the U.S. Embassy."

[xJones]

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (pronounced mah-MOOD ah-mah-dih-nee-ZHAD)

It certainly helps to know how to say the little weenie's name.

[johnny7]

t certainly helps to know how to say the little weenie's name.

The spelling won't matter... his grave will be unmarked.

[LjubivojeRadosavljevic]

As a student, Ahmadinejad was politically active. Although religious activism was repressed under the shah,...

Really?...I wonder if the Savak had anything to do with this so-called repression?

[Blue_Ridge_Mtn_Geek]

“Know your enemy.”

Indeed. He has far more impressive credentials than Adolf Hitler, another seriously underestimated character on the world stage, ever did; and probably a good deal more impressive than many FR posters who use dismissive phrases like “little weenie” as substitutes for thought.

[mmanager]

Reads like Hillary or Hitler’s youth.

[Baladas]

So true, I call tell You’re not on the left end of the political spectrum with that comment alone. Want to add:

11. Ahmadinejad’s a psychotic terrorist.

[johnny7]

He has far more impressive credentials than Adolf Hitler...

History isn't your strong-suit.

[agere_contra]

The Basiji are perhaps better known for acting as human minesweepers during the Iran-Iraq war.

IIRC Ahmadinejhad was a Minesweeper-”trainer”

[sure_fine]

"5. As a student, Ahmadinejad was politically active. Although religious activism was repressed under the shah, Ahmadinejad and his fellow protesters produced leaflets denouncing the shah using a printing press hidden in his family's home. Later, Ahmadinejad joined the ultraconservative faction of the Office for Strengthening Unity, the radical student group that grew out of the 1979 Islamic Revolution and staged the capture of the U.S. Embassy."

[Cindy]

Yep.
Thanks for posting those photos, sure fine.

[SkyPilot]

How tall is he?

I am guessing 5'3".

[Baladas]

Yeah, looking at THAT, I can see what Walter Cronkite meant when he said he might like to have a “gay marriage”. Hawt.

[olezip]

5. As a student, Ahmadinejad was politically active. Although religious activism was repressed under the shah, Ahmadinejad and his fellow protesters produced leaflets denouncing the shah using a printing press hidden in his family's home. Later, Ahmadinejad joined the ultraconservative faction of the Office for Strengthening Unity, the radical student group that grew out of the 1979 Islamic Revolution and staged the capture of the U.S. Embassy. 6. After serving in the war with Iraq, he joined Iran's elite Special Brigade of Revolutionary Guards, the militia force loyal to the spiritual leader at the time, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. He served in covert operations with the guards, probably in Kirkuk, and may also have been involved in the elimination of the Ayatollah's enemies; intelligence sources believed that he traveled to Austria in 1989 to assist in the assassination of Abdorrahman Qassemlou, a Kurdish dissident.

In other words Ahmadinejad is or was a terrorist. That is further evidence that Columbia University is run by morons.

[SkyPilot]

The Basij crisscrossed the city via motorcycles, searching for women out in public in violation of strict Muslim dress codes or in the company of males who were not close relatives.

So he chased skirts on a motorcycle?

Wow - impressive. Glad he has that on his resume.

[OldSmaj]

All I want to know about the sawed-off, beady-eyed little piece of excrement, is the moment he assumes room temperature.

[aruanan]

10. Declaring that "we did not have a revolution in order to have democracy," Ahmadinejad won Iran's presidential election, edging out his rival, Islamic cleric and veteran politician Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, in the runoff election in June 2005.

And we will not have bombed Iran in order to let a pious kook escape to threaten the world with Islamic nukes.

[aruanan]

3. Ahmadinejad is the fourth son of seven children. His father, Ahmad, ran a grocery store and then a barber shop in Aradan; upon their move to Tehran, his father became a blacksmith.

At least he wasn't the 7th son of a 7th son or we'd really be in trouble.