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Last update - 17:34 19/09/2009
New York hotel cancels banquet after learning Ahmadinejad invited
By Reuters
Tags: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 

New York's Helmsley Hotel said on Friday it canceled a banquet set for next week when it learned Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was on the guest list, saying the man who called the Holocaust a lie was not welcome.

Ahmadinejad was due in New York next week to attend the UN General Assembly, and his public appearances outside the meeting have generated controversy in recent years.

"As soon as Helmsley corporate management learned of the possibility of either the Iranian mission or President Ahmadinejad holding a function at the New York Helmsley Hotel, they immediately ordered the cancellation of that function," hotel spokesman Howard Rubenstein said in a statement.
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"Neither the Iranian mission nor President Ahmadinejad is welcome at any Helmsley facility," the statement said without saying why.

A group called United Against Nuclear Iran told the hotel that Ahmadinejad was on the guest list, he said.

The New York Post reported the banquet was booked months ago by an Iranian student group.

Ahmadinejad on Friday called the Holocaust "a lie based on an unprovable and mythical claim" in comments to worshipers at Tehran University
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  1.   A good laugh 02:33  |  A TRUE American 19/09/09
  2.   Holocaust deniers 02:42  |  jj 19/09/09
  3.   He`s not particularly popular in Iran either 03:37  |  Mark Lincoln 19/09/09
  4.   NYC hotel cancels banquet after learning Ahmadinejad on guest lis 04:54  |  R C 19/09/09
  5.   Bravo 05:51  |  Bravo 19/09/09
  6.   NYC hotel cancels banquet after learning Ahmadinejad on guest lis 06:35  |  Canadian 19/09/09
  7.   R C - not if you are rich 07:39  |  Mark Lincoln 19/09/09
  8.   Canadian - the responsibility of hosting the UN 07:42  |  Mark Lincoln 19/09/09
  9.   NYC hotel cancels banquet 09:48  |  Tzodek 19/09/09
  10.   NYC Hotel cancels banquet 11:17  |  A.Abrahams 19/09/09
  11.   #1- what is a "Zionist-owned hotel" ? 11:20  |  Jane 19/09/09
  12.   #10: Do YOU get that in Iran`s eyes there is no difference? 11:47  |  Global Citizen 19/09/09
  13.   global citizen 11 14:22  |  potobac 19/09/09
  14.   Electoral percentages 15:01  |  Jim 19/09/09
  15.   NYC Hotel. 16:18  |  Joe Kelsall 19/09/09
  16.   kudos to helmsley`s 16:19  |  neil 19/09/09
  17.   Those students should be fired from their universities 16:44  |  kia from Iran 19/09/09
  18.   Move the UN out of NY and out of the US 17:00  |  Yonatan 19/09/09
  19.   potoboc does obama know there are one million blacks 17:10  |  prisonblues 19/09/09
  20.   Let`s hope other Hotels refuse him entry 17:48  |  John Q. Public 19/09/09
  21.   Jane # 10 19:16  |  Philippe 19/09/09
  22.   Kelsall teaching lessons 19:17  |  A TRUE American 19/09/09
  23.   Both good and bad move 21:14  |  Bloodyscot 19/09/09
  24.   now time to cancel airport landing and police escort 21:25  |  vik 19/09/09
  25.   #17 Yes, UN out of US, Israel out of UN 21:34  |  Ardi 19/09/09
  26.   prisonblues 18 21:45  |  potobac 19/09/09
  27.   To Global Citizen #10 `Do YOU...` 21:53  |  Colin Wright 19/09/09
  28.   Helmsley isn`t "Jewish" 22:21  |  dd 19/09/09
  29.   what hypocrisy 22:27  |  edgar 19/09/09
  30.   They should never booked in crooked Leona Halmsley`s place 22:45  |  Arik Silverman 19/09/09
  31.   #24 ardi - So you would like to see Israel gone? 23:21  |  Yonatan 19/09/09
  32.   RE: Ahmadinejad 02:09  |  tom jones 20/09/09
  33.   Boycott 03:15  |  Richard Pearce 20/09/09
  34.   to deny is to support 03:57  |  Nino Baldino 20/09/09
  35.   What a loser he is 04:00  |  Chaim Ben Kahan 20/09/09
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