IMO, out of all this news from yesterday:
Ahmadinejad said Annan had told him Iran could ignore a Security Council resolution requiring the country to cease enriching uranium by Aug. 31 or face economic sanctions.
is the most important!
Reading it now........
HAH! Several of us posted about this statement yesterday when we were on the live thread- could not believe our ears! It's really good to see at least someone in the media followed up and is bringing attention to it..the duplicity at the UN is frightening.
Surely Olberman will have this as # 5 on his countdown tonight? LOL:)
Check this out:
Syria President: To Implement Hezbollah Arms Embargo - Annan
Posted by debg to HAL9000
On News/Activism 09/01/2006 6:34:43 AM EDT · 15 of 34
Trust Kofi?
Here's what Iran's Ahmadinejad said about the UN resolution:
"In all the contacts I have had with Mr. Annan he assured me that this resolution was issued hastily, and that we should continue our work without considering it. We did this, while we could have placed this proposal aside. We could have said that we were not prepared to do anything more until they had proven their honesty to us," he commented.
http://www.isna.ir/Main/NewsView.aspx?ID=News-779545&Lang=E
I was going to post this when I first saw this thread...but I don't have any "source" information bookmarked...but, I will say it anyway.
Back at the time that the "ceasefire" first started between Israel and Lebanon, there was a trip that Annan took to that area...and it was mentioned SOMEWHERE that I read, that one of Annan's reasons for going over there was to tell Ahmanutjob not to worry about the "deadline".
I remember thinking at the time that it is weird that no more was made of this in the media...but, I forgot it until I saw this....so, I believe it...I believe that Annan did tell Nutjob not to worry.
Sorry, I can't source it right now...without LOTS of time to look around...but I just thought I would post what I remember anyway.
On a side note:
Ahmadnutjob: "We think [the Security Council] was probably under pressure by some powers who constantly want to place pressure on countries."
That's a shot at the US.
Who to believe?
BTTT