[lbo-talk] Ahmadinejad gossip

[Jim Devine]

while we're on the subject (and even though Ahmadinejad isn't strictly
speaking a dictator, nor was Ortega), there's an interesting book
titled _Dictator Style: Lifestyles of the World's Most Colorful
Despots_ (Hardcover $25) by Peter York and Douglas Coupland. Idi Amin!
The Emperor Bokassa! Slobo Milosevik! Vlad the L!

On 5/12/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> New York Post [Page Six] - May 11, 2006
>
> THE SUITE LIFE
>
> REMEMBER "the dictator in designer glasses?" That's what we dubbed
> Nicaraguan strongman Daniel Ortega after the Marxist was caught
> spending big at Cohen's Fashion Optical during a 1985 visit to New
> York. Now we hear Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is sleeping
> in the $3,500-a-night presidential suite at the Hotel Mulia in
> Jakarta during his three-day visit to Indonesia. The nukes-mad U.S
> and Israel hater, who drives an old Peugeot back in Tehran, is
> traveling with an entourage of 100, including 40 bodyguards. He
> supposedly planned to sleep at the Iranian ambassador's residence,
> but the Indonesians provided him with the hotel suite. Hamid Shaleki,
> the press attache at the Iranian embassy, told reporters, "It would
> not have been a good response for him to have refused."
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