Parade of Despots Heading For New York [Excerpts]
The usual September parade of world leaders descending on New York City for the opening of the annual United Nations General Assembly will be characterized this year by the presence of some of the world’s most controversial leaders.
Likely to provoke the most ire this year will be Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who plans his first visit ever to the United States at a time when his emergence from international isolation has been set back by the release of the Libyan convicted in the Lockerbie bombing. Of the 270 people killed when the New York-bound Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up after taking off from London in 1988, 189 were Americans.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also plans to attend the UNGA session, as he has for the past four consecutive years, but this time the visit comes on the heels of his disputed re-election and subsequent state crackdown, and as an Obama administration deadline for cooperation on the nuclear issue runs out the clock.
Adding to the storm, Ahmadinejad has nominated as defense minister a man wanted by Argentina and Interpol for his alleged role in the deadly 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires.
The 2008 visit also saw five religious “peace” groups organize an interfaith meeting with Ahmadinejad in a bid to “build bridges of peace and understanding.” Critics derided the event as naïve.
Other leaders hostile to the U.S. who may attend this year’s session opening on September 23 include Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe.
Chavez grabbed the headlines in 2006 when, addressing the General Assembly one day after President Bush had spoken there, called the American president “the devil” and said “it still smells of sulphur around here.”
Also yet to confirm his attendance is Mugabe, who has ruled Zimbabwe for 29 years, but over the past year under international pressure agreed to allow opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai to become prime minister.
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[TBC: The tolerance of the UN for the worst tyrants of history has not diminished over time. The “respect” these rulers seemingly draw is a small reflection of how the Antichrist (“the man of sin”) will command the attention of humanity: “all the world wondered after the beast (Revelation:13:3And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.). “And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie” (2 Thessalonians:2:11And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:).]
