More cries for help at Hotel Montana now. Twitter users from Haiti are repeatedly calling for rescuers to divert more attention to this establishment. According to them, they have been in touch with some people who are still trapped under the rubble.
Help needed!
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Desperate cries for help from the Caribbean Supermarket in the Haitian capital through cell phones. Many people on Twitter and on alternative media continue to try and get rescuers attention to this part of town where many people might still be trapped and alive.
UPDATE 21 October: And just in case you’re still doubting, the Supreme Leader’s website has posted an audio and photo album from yesterday’s meeting with female scholars.
UPDATE 1645 GMT: Ayatollah Khamenei’s official website has posted a photograph and full report of the Supreme Leader’s meeting with thousands of female scholars and teachers. Khamenei declared that Islam show its “respect and dignity for women and women’s talents” in the family, society, and national and international activities. He repeated his criticism of Western academia, specifically the humanities, for its teaching and worldview in contrast to an Iranian approach based on Qu’ranic principles. (Cross-posted from Latest Iran Updates, 20 October)
UPDATE 20 October 1615 GMT: The Supreme Leader did meet the head of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, Ezatullah Zarghami, at the end of last week. Previously we had reported that the meeting was scheduled but, amidst the rumours about Ayatollah Khamenei’s health, had no confirmation that it took place. (Cross-posted from Latest Iran Updates, 20 October)
Well, it’s the morning after the pictures that were supposed to end all speculation about the fitness and health of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The images of the Supreme Leader with President Ahmadinejad and the visiting President of Senegal, Abdoulaye Wade, are most ordinary for a ceremonial photographs, and their message is that, after an extraordinary five days of rumour, possibility, and anxiety, all is ordinary with Iran’s leadership.
Inevitably, Internet users (including Enduring America’s staff) pored over the pictures to find inconsistencies and flaws that might point to a regime cover-up. Did the event even occur? Read the rest of this entry »
URGENT UPDATE 1755 GMT: EA’s Mr Smith may have solved the mystery in favour of a “true” meeting. He has discovered a set of photographs on the Fars News site of the official reception at the Presidential compound for the Senegalese President, who is dressed in the same fashion as in the photograph with the Supreme Leader. Khamenei’s office is only two blocks from the Presidential compound.
UPDATE 1645 GMT: We’re doing some checking to address the obvious question of whether this is a photograph from today. The Supreme Leader also met President Wade on 28 June 2006 and on 28 February 2008, discussing the issue of Western pressure on Iran’s nuclear programme.
The Supreme Leader’s official websites have posted a picture of Ayatollah Khamenei meeting with the President of Senegal, Abdoulaye Wade, and President Ahmadinejad today. The accompanying article expressed the Supreme Leader’s satisfaction with “development of trade, industrial and economic links between the two countries”. Khamenei also praised the Islamic Conference Organization, of which Senegal is currently the President, for its pursuit of the Palestinian issue.
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UPDATE 21 October: And just in case you’re still doubting, the Supreme Leader’s website has posted 
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