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I can't help it. I admire him. And not only is he sticking up for Iran's dignity on the nukes score, but he's getting real on our psychedelic propensity for black ops to terrorize everybody.

Ahmadinejad urges Ban to probe 9/11 attacks
(AFP) – 9 hours ago

TEHRAN — Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has written to UN chief Ban Ki-moon, asking him to launch an investigation into the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, news reports said on Monday.

"The minimum expectation from your excellency is to set up an independent and trusted fact-finding group to comprehensively investigate the real factors behind September 11," Ahmadinejad said in the text of the letter carried by official news agencies.

They did not say when the letter was sent.

The hardliner, who in March dismissed 9/11 as a "big lie," said in the letter that the attacks "were the main pretext for attacks" by NATO on Afghanistan and Iraq.

Several times Ahmadinejad has questioned the accepted version of the Al-Qaeda strikes on New York and Washington which killed nearly 3,000 people.

In January, he branded September 11 "a suspicious affair" similar to the Holocaust, which he dismissed as a "myth" in 2005, drawing widespread condemnation.

Ahmadinejad's latest remarks come with Iran locked in a standoff with world powers led by the United States over Tehran's controversial nuclear programme, and risking tougher sanctions over its defiance.

In his letter, he also asked Ban to condemn Sunni militant Abdolmalek Rigi and those who backed him.

Rigi, head of the rebel Jundallah (Soldiers of God) group, was captured by Iranian intelligence agents in February. According to officials in Iran, he had lived in Pakistan from where he launched attacks inside the Islamic republic.

"Based on the legal and humane duties of the secretary general, we want outright condemnation of Rigi's crimes and defence of the Iranian nation's rights as a victim of terrorism," Ahmadinejad's letter said.

He demanded "condemnation of NATO backing for this regional terrorist and impeachment of the criminals who backed him."

Iran touted Rigi's arrest as a major success and a blow to the United States and Britain, and state television showed what it said was Rigi confessing that he had received US backing.

Rigi reportedly spearheaded several bloody insurgent attacks in southeast Iran's Sistan-Baluchestan province, which borders both Pakistan and Afghanistan.

That was no coerced lie confession: The criminals who backed Rigi are the U.S. government.

I think theocracy is a big mistake, but it really seems to me sometimes that these particular theocrats are about the only ones left on the planet who are trying to deal with the real... sort of digging their heels in and insisting on it, no matter how menacing we get to back them down from it. That is beautiful. That is bodhisattva stuff. And the stakes have not been low. And they have suffered badly, and quietly, to keep us out of WWIII. So. Well. I do so wish people could find some gratitude for it... some gratitude for their staying strong even in the face of the silver-tongued Barack W. Cheney, staying strong despite his charming eyelash-batting offers for them to just lighten up and let us dominate Iran again, and despite all this lethal skullduggery too....
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