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Iranian president’s New York visit sparks protests

Written by Sheraz Akhtar
Monday, 24 September 2007
NEW YORK - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met leaders of an anti-Zionist Jewish group on Monday at the start of a visit to New York for the UN General Assembly meeting that has sparked protests and anger. Mainstream Jewish groups were among those who condemned an invitation by Columbia University for the Iranian leader to speak later on Monday at its World Leaders Forum. ‘The Evil Has Landed’ was the front-page headline in New York’s Daily News newspaper, reporting outrage among US critics who say a Holocaust denier blamed by Washington for supporting terrorism should not be given a platform at one of America’s most respected universities.The United States accuses Iran of seeking to develop nuclear weapons under the cover of its civil nuclear program, and of fueling violence in Iraq by providing weapons to anti-American militants. Iran denies the charges.The Iranian leader, who last year railed at the United States in his speech to the General Assembly, on Monday morning met leaders of a movement called Neturei Karta International, which describes itself as an Orthodox Jewish group opposed to the existence of the State of Israel.New York police said last week that Ahmadinejad, who has called for Israel to be wiped off the map, had been denied a request to visit the World Trade Center site of the Sept. 11 attacks.US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Monday that it would have been a travesty for Ahmadinejad to visit the site, known as Ground Zero.‘I think it would have been a travesty,’ Rice told cable TV channel CNBC in an interview. ‘This is somebody who is the president of a country that is probably the greatest sponsor—state sponsor—of terrorism.’She said she did not see a way to reach Ahmadinejad but she hoped more moderate elements in Iranian politics would see the futility of Iran’s remaining so isolated in the world.‘(The) regime needs to change its behavior,’ she said.Ahmadinejad said in a CBS television interview broadcast on Sunday that Iran did not need nuclear weapons and his country was not heading for war with the United States.Asked whether Iran and the United States were heading toward conflict over Teheran’s nuclear ambitions, he said: ‘It’s wrong to think that Iran and the US are walking toward war. Who says so? Why should we go to war? There is no war in the offing.’

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Sources said, the suicide attacker reached outside the gate of the school in a white flying coach where contingents of security forces were deployed. He blew himself up there, causing a loud blast.

The coach was completely destroyed while four persons were killed including 3 security men and a rikshaw driver. Ten more persons who sustained injuries are being taken to Peshawar from Machni.

The blast was so powerful that it damaged the school building besides shattering th.....

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