Defiant Ahmadinejad revels at Holocaust event Options

[Anaxagoras]

Iran attracted international condemnation yesterday for hosting a conference of Holocaust deniers which was described by Tony Blair as "shocking beyond belief".

As the two-day conference in Tehran wound up by forming a "fact-finding" committee into the extermination of six million Jews by the Nazis, Mr Blair accused Iran of posing a "major strategic threat" to the Middle East.

Speaking at his monthly press conference, he said he had been so taken aback by the reports the Iran president had invited a leader of the Ku Klux Klan to the conference that he asked a No 10 aide to check on it, twice. "To go and invite the former head of the Ku Klux Klan to a conference in Tehran which disputes the millions of people who died in the Holocaust ... what further evidence do you need that this regime is extreme?"

The White House also issued a strong condemnation yesterday, describing the conference as "an affront to the entire civilised world as well as to the traditional Iranian values of tolerance and respect". Germany's Chancellor, Angela Merkel, expressed outrage, saying: 'Germany will never accept this." The Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, said on Monday that the gathering, attended by more than 60 people from 30 countries, was a "sick phenomenon".

The Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addressed the closing session, saying: "Just as the Soviet Union was wiped out and today does not exist, so will the Zionist regime soon be wiped out."

The conference was convened at a delicate moment for Iran in its relations with the West, and makes it even more unlikely that the Bush administration would endorse a recommendation of the Iraq Study Group to engage Iran on ending the Iraqi insurgency.

The UN Security Council is meanwhile considering a new draft resolution that would punish scientists associated with Iran's nuclear and missile programmes with a travel ban and assets freeze. The draft text, which has been modified in the hope of securing Russian backing, calls for a ban on exports to Iran of material and technology that could be used to produce a bomb. The sanctions would be adopted in response to Iran's refusal to halt uranium enrichment, which could be used to make fuel for a weapon. Iran says its programme is solely for energy purposes.

Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for the Russian President Vladimir Putin, insisted that differences with the US and Britain over the approach to Iran were purely tactical. "Strategically we're all on the same track. We may be more concerned about Iran than Britain and the United States," he said. "We are vitally interested about the preservation of the non-proliferation regime because we have Iran on our borders. We would be the last country in this world that would want the existence of nuclear arms in Iran."

Mr Blair, who will visit the Middle East this weekend, said: "I look around the region at the moment and everything that Iran is doing is negative. Iran is deliberately causing maximum problems for moderate governments and for ourselves in the region - in Palestine, in Lebanon and in Iraq."

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle...icle2070190.ece


"Just as the Soviet Union was wiped out and today does not exist, so will the Zionist regime soon be wiped out."

[gisaster]

I'm just waiting on Blair to apologise for the Irish Famine so I can put my reparations claim forms in.

[Khanverse]

http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/236

^ much better read.

the "restrictive" Iranian government allowing a gathering of diligent researchers that is not possible in Europe due to draconian laws on "free" speech.

[gisaster]

Fuck! Khan has a point!


Must be one of those moments of clarity.

[Anaxagoras]

Draconian lol, you do know what that means dont you?
reminds me of that afghan converter hehe. remember our friend.

more to do with his own personal comments, and the power he has/intends to have.

and gig, i thought blair already has, well kinda. a few years ago,
or he just apologised for Britain’s failure to relieve the Irish potato famine .

very bad either way though. no dif from from european support for our farmers today.

[Khanverse]

ernst zundel is IN JAIL,

http://www.ihr.org/news/030923Zundel.shtml

http://www.thesimon.com/magazine/articles/...ay_galileo.html

as for the homo in afghanistan, i think he just wanted to get out and got what he wanted as well as being a tool from propaganda, cmon you strike me as much smarter than a guy who just follows along with the official line.

Does anyone notice how they've been trying the last month or two trying to instigate or "predict" a bloody Crusades Sequel?

This post has been edited by Khanverse: Dec 13 2006, 03:28 PM

[Anaxagoras]

he is sentenced to death ?,

i was just refering to your use of the word draconian,=death. which i dont think i saw in the link you put.

anyway ,im in europe, not canada lol. to cold for me.

europe is in a tangle at the mo, over turkey admiting there armenian genocide and the french in algeria and rawanda with that trial going on at the mo

funny i read this review other day too.

Silent Accomplice, by Andrew Wallis

The bloody reality of France's role in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda

Andrew Wallis's analysis of France's role in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda is furiously hard-hitting and thoroughly researched. With France having embarked on a new round of revisionism, it leaves you wondering whether Paris will ever acknowledge its responsibility. The nature of Rwanda's genocide - the killing of up to 937,000 Tutsis in 100 days - is that it is incomprehensible. Equally true, but hard to come to terms with, is Wallis's central thesis: that France's frantic military activity in Rwanda in the early 1990s was motivated by a visceral fear of seeing the country "fall" under "Anglo-Saxon" domination.

In 1962, the French people voted to let go of their colonies. But the political elite never rescinded control. They created "la Françafrique": an unofficial cell in the Elysée Palace, answerable to no one and still in existence. Rwanda was a Belgian colony, but its Hutu leader, Juvenal Habyarimana, qualified for membership of la Françafrique because he was French-speaking and his country bordered English-speaking Uganda. After earlier massacres, many Rwandan Tutsis had fled to Uganda. There, they supported Yoweri Museveni's battle for power. In 1990, Paul Kagame led the refugees back into Rwanda. Under French logic, the Tutsis were the enemy of a friendly state.

When Habyarimana asked France for support against Kagame's Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), Mitterrand responded instantly. By February 1992, France was delivering several tons of ammunition to the Forces Armées du Rwanda (FAR) every day. French troops manned roadblocks at which Tutsis were led off for slaughter. Peace talks led to a power-sharing solution which infuriated extremist Hutus. On 6 April 1994, Habyarimana's jet was shot down, which many believe triggered the genocide. The French judge Jean-Louis Bruguière has now claimed it was shot down by the RPF and that, consequently, Kagame should face a tribunal for sparking the genocide.

Wallis produces ample evidence that the genocide was planned long before April. His book is needed as a record but it is not enough. The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha continues to be hamstrung by resistance from Kigali and Paris. A Rwandan commission of enquiry on the French role resumes hearings this week. The Rwandan genocide was not a little colonial war, and Wallis's book should be read by our politicians. They should not let France get away with this one.

[Khanverse]

i don't think draconian has anything to do with death.

it means really harsh.

if you look into his case i think it applies.

[Anaxagoras]

"And Draco himself, they say, being asked why he made death the penalty for most offences, replied that in his opinion the lesser ones deserved it, and for the greater ones no heavier penalty could be found."
Plutarch Life of Solon

[Soltron]

I'm just waiting on Blair to apologise for the Irish Famine so I can put my reparations claim forms in.

[the chosen one]

"And Draco himself, they say, being asked why he made death the penalty for most offences, replied that in his opinion the lesser ones deserved it, and for the greater ones no heavier penalty could be found."
Plutarch Life of Solon

The underlying point is still the level of harshness... draconian essentially mean intolerance. Death is merely an aspect.

[THE Mullster©]

Whats so wrong with questioning the holocaust ?
AND WHY THE FUCK IS IT A CRIME ?

People question the existence of God, the existence of weapons of mass destruction, the history of every peoples in the world, but the holocause is somehow a holy event ?

Fuck out of here, its human nature to examine and dissect everything, only lemmings take whatevers handed to them and conform.

There is TONS of evidence that points that the holocaust happened, and theres tons trhat points out that the numbers maybe inaccurate.

How about the hundreds of people who claimed to be " victims " who were succesfully debunked ?

Or the ridiculous claims of Nazi torture that REAL holocaust victims say was false ?

Such as Nazis putting bricks in peoples stomachs, or the " games " that they played with jews ?

Come on man, so many individuals jew/non jew have profited off the Holocaust that its inane to think it was NOT exagerrated.

[Jon The Baptist]

Out of curiosity... what games did they play?

[Hannibal Harm]

"Jew-manji"

Ba dum tsshhhhh!!!!!

[R0NIN]

mullet you are correct, but no one can say it wasnt a terrible event

[Khanverse]

right, in addition, you can't wonder outloud if 6 million really died or if jews helped kill their own.

[Like Kofi Nahmea...]

Whats so wrong with questioning the holocaust ?
AND WHY THE FUCK IS IT A CRIME ?

People question the existence of God, the existence of weapons of mass destruction, the history of every peoples in the world, but the holocause is somehow a holy event ?

brilliant.