Carsten Wiethoff Wrote:Quote:Correction: September 25, 2010
A headline on Friday with an article about an incendiary speech in the United Nations General Assembly by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran summarized his remarks about the Sept. 11 terror attacks incorrectly. In his speech, Mr. Ahmadinejad asserted various theories about the origin of the attacks, including the possibility that they had been planned by the United States. He did not say that the United States had planned the attacks.
At least the NYTimes has the guts to correct itself, after misinforming their readers.
I await the same from the Wall Street Journal. I don't hold my breath. 
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What a surprise there was the initial 'mistake'. I have known a few UN interpreters - and they are of the highest caliber and almost exclusively NOT of any political 'persuasion'. I would like to know if they used the U.N. translator's words - or their own...or the US intel's own....
From the Times of India: (
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Quote:UNITED NATIONS: Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave a chaotic speech at the UN summit on Tuesday — with no one except for the controversial leader and his delegation really sure what he said.
Ahmadinehad broke off one minute into his presentation to complain about the translation to the UN assembly presidency.
The president carried on again but at the end, the UN interpreters said they were only "reading from a translated text" and not following Ahmadinejad's comments.
The assembly hall was half empty, but Western delegations did not boycott the speech as they have done in previous years.
According to the translated text, Ahmadinejad called for fundamental reform of "the undemocratic and unjust" world order.
"Demanding liberal capitalism and transnational corporations have caused the suffering of countless women, men and children in so many countries," he was quoted as saying.
Carsten Wiethoff Wrote:Unsurprisingly there is an ugly hit piece regarding Ahmadinejad's speech in relation to 9/11 in the Wall Street Journal. Read this and compare to the original.:thumpdown:
http://911blogger.com/news/2010-09-27/wa...h-movement
Yes, quite ugly. One could use that piece to teach someone else how it's done. Maybe later I'll deconstruct it....