Buddhist monks demonstrate at UN - Spooks take note

Free Burma demonstration, September 27, 2007

“The big missing piece of the puzzle is what is going on in the minds of the senior leadership,” said Thant Myint-U, a former United Nations official, “Nothing that they have said in the last 20 years would suggest that they will back down.”

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

On Monday, September 24th, 2007 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke and participated in a question and answer session with university faculty and students at Columbia University’s World Leaders Forum.
This was the demonstration

Barney Rubin, a New York University professor who attended the dinner hosted by Ahmadinejad, said he felt that, despite the unprecedented access to the Iranian president this year, most people will continue to see what they want to see: either a man from a misunderstood country who can be reasoned with, or an evil dictator who must be confronted