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Boy survives two-hour flight to Moscow hanging onto plane wing

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in New York City, and he is the talk of the town. The highly controversial Iranian President has been criticized in the past for his comments highly critical of the U.S. and President Bush, along with reported anti-semitic / anti-Israel comments.

Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made a controversial appearance at Columbia University, outlining his positions on a variety of social and diplomatic issues. Introducing the Iranian president, Lee Bollinger, president of Columbia University, called him a “petty and cruel dictator.”

In his speech, the Iranian President:

…denied all the chief accusations against Iran: that it is providing weapons to kill U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, supporting terrorism or breaking international law by developing nuclear weapons. (via NPR.org)

Recently, the U.S. Military has accused Iranian Government officials of being involved in smuggling weapons into Iraq:

Iran is smuggling advanced weapons, including surface-to-air missiles, into Iraq to be used by extremists against American troops, the US military charged on Sunday.

US military spokesman Rear Admiral Mark Fox told reporters in Baghdad that Iran was shifting sophisticated arms such as “RPG-29s, explosively-formed penetrators (EFPs), 240 mm rockets and Misagh-1 surface-to-air missiles” across its borders into Iraq.

An EFP is a feared roadside bomb which when it explodes emits a white-hot slug of molten copper that can cut through the armoured skins of US military vehicles. (via AFP)

Interestingly, while mainstream U.S. media has been dedicating more coverage to reported Iranian arms smuggling, less coverage can be found about recent charges that private U.S. security contractor Blackwater, has been accused of smuggling arms into Iraq.

In addition, Blackwater has denied any involvement in illegal weapons smuggling, responding to news reports that federal prosecutors in North Carolina are investigating whether the company shipped unlicensed automatic weapons and military goods to Iraq. (via Associated Press)

These charges are being taken more seriously in International press.

Since the fatal shooting Blackwater has also faced what it calls “baseless” allegations that some of its men were involved in smuggling weapons into Iraq.

The accusations stem from comments made by two unnamed sources quoted in US newspapers in January. In July American weapons were found in the hands of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), an organisation designated by Washington as a terrorist group active in northern Iraq and Turkey.

The source of the weapons remains unclear.

In a statement posted on Blackwater’s website the company says it “has no knowledge of any employee improperly exporting weapons”. It referred to allegations that the company was involved in “unlawful arms activities” as “baseless”. (via Arabian Business)

and also

Feds Probe Blackwater Weapons Smuggling (via Guardian Unlimited)

For more information on Blackwater, check out this profile on from Forbes.com

The Iranian President will be addressing the United Nations General Assembly today.

Life Sucks

Frank family Toby (from the band H20) took this aNYthing LES New Era cap and flipped it DMS style to our delight. If you’re not familiar with DMS, DMS is a collective of New York City bands, including Murphy’s Law, Madball, Agnostic Front, Cro-Mags etc, that put hardcore music on the map in the 80’s. Check the modification:

Check out the work of artist Thomas Broome

Update 10/8 - Slam X Hype has an interview with Thomas Broome 

Cornell West and Mos Def speak with Bill Mahr on the Jena 6 situation, the presidential race, and even get into O.J at the end, where it gets akward. In the second clip they get into religion, and it gets real heavy…

We decided to hop on the bandwagon, and join the media frenzy surrounding the latest O.J. arrest.

Alleged robbery victim and one time “promoter for O.J.,” arrested http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0920071abeardsley1.html And, “the California man who helped orchestrate O.J. Simpson’s memorabilia recovery mission (and then sold an audiotape of the raid to a tabloid web site) is an ex-con whose rap sheet includes at least four separate felony convictions, including arson, prison escape, and stolen property charges…” http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0918072riccio1.html

Oops! And what did the media not tell people about the Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman murders?

According to Steve Worth and Carl Jaspers, authors of Blood Oath: The Conspiracy to Murder Nicole Brown Simpson, plenty of information has been overlooked regarding the conspiracy to frame O.J. during his first trial, including:

That a report was submitted to prosecutor Marcia Clark a week or so after the killings indicating that Mark Fuhrman had a sexual interest in Nicole Brown Simpson and may well have had an affair with her; that Mark Fuhrman was the head of a white supremacist group within the Los Angeles Police Department called WASP (“White Anglo-Saxon Policemen�); that O.J. and Nicole Simpson were receiving death threats from white supremacist groups (including some affiliated with the Los Angeles Police Department); that Judge Lance Ito’s wife was the highest ranking female member of the LAPD; that Ito’s wife had been Fuhrman’s watch commander and had to discipline Fuhrman when he wrote “KKK� on the Martin Luther King Holiday on the station house calendar; that Ito’s wife later claimed she had no recollection of Fuhrman and that, therefore, Judge Ito had no conflict of interest; that Fuhrman lied on the stand during the pre-trial hearings about where he was and what he was doing on the night of the killings; that Nicole wasn’t living in fear of O.J.—she had a pizza party at O.J.’s a few weeks before the killings; that all of the principles in the case had links to “organized vice’; that Nicole appears to have been working as a call girl for Heidi Fleiss’s ring (the call girl operation of “the Hollywood Madam�); that Ron Goldman was openly gay and had no passionate interest in Nicole; that Ron Goldman may well have been working as a gay prostitute and that he was receiving death threats from his jealous gay lover; that Michael Nigg—a defense witness—was murdered shortly before he was to testify; that Casimir “Butch Casey� Sucharski—a reputed organized crime associate of O.J.’s from his playing days was murdered shortly after being written about in the Buffalo News; that Cowlings and Robert Kardashian (O.J.’s friend and attorney) were under investigation by a grand jury for possible involvement in the largest sports-betting ring in California; that Cowlings was a driver and bodyguard for Joey Ippolito, a major Southern California organized crime figure; that Nicole testified in her divorce testimony that the New Year’s eve incident was the only time O.J. had been violent with her; that Duane Garrett—a Bay Area AM radio talk show host—reported that O.J. had approached by Edward J. DeBartolo, Jr. (the owner of the San Francisco 49’ers) and offered millions of dollars to become the first black NFL franchise owner; that O.J. (according to Garrett) turned the offer down because of the alleged organized crime connections of DeBartolo; that Garrett began receiving death threats shortly after he made the report; that roughly a year after making the report, Garrett went off the Golden Gate Bridge (an alleged suicide); that the Mezzaluna restaurant (at which Ron Goldman worked and which was managed by Nicole’s boy friend) was well known to have been an organized crime front; that Ron Goldman’s father is alleged in a book published in Sweden to be a money-launderer for organized crime; that Denise Brown (Nicole’s sister) was dating Tony “the Animal� Fiatto (a former mob enforcer turned Federal informant); that there is abundant, irrefutable evidence that the LAPD falsified evidence to frame O.J.

“Blood Oath: The Conspiracy to Murder Nicole Brown Simpson” by Steven Worth and Carl Jaspers, Copyright 1996 Rainbow Books

http://www.amazon.com/Blood-Oath-Conspiracy-Murder-Simpson/dp/1568250584