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The assassination that wasn't!
Foul play gone awry in Rome has left the Iranian President alive -- and ticked off:
He said that the regular radiation level of such equipment in
Italy was "300" but on this machine it had reached "800".
Thankfully, Ahmadinejad was wearing his trusty tin-foil hat to prevent the X-ray from scanning his brain!
J. Peter Freire is contributing editor of The American Spectator. Freire first came to the Spectator as an intern and editorial assistant under a journalism fellowship from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Since then, he has written for the New York Times, Reason, and Human Events. Prior to returning to The American Spectator, he was editor of Brainwash, an online journal of opinion from America's Future Foundation, worked for the Evans-Novak Political Report, and researched and wrote for the New York Times. Freire studied English Renaissance literature and political science at Cornell University, where he served as senior editor and columnist at the Cornell Review. He is also a 2008 Phillips Foundation Journalism Fellow and the CPAC 2009 Journalist of the Year.
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