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| Ahmadinejad Kidnap Plot Is Hinted |
| 2008-09-10 |
| An Israeli minister who ran the Mossad operation to capture Adolf Eichmann has hinted that Israel might use similar tactics to kidnap President Ahmadinejad of Iran and place him on trial before an international court. Rafi Eitan, now 81, was one of the agents who seized Eichmann in 1960 and transported him from Argentina to Israel, where he was tried and executed for carrying out Adolf Hitler's "final solution" to kill European Jewry. Such an operation, he suggested, could be ordered so that Mr. Ahmadinejad could be tried for anti-Israeli rhetoric. Mr. Ahmadinejad has made numerous vitriolic attacks on Israel, including remarks — which some of his supporters dispute he ever made — calling for "Israel to be wiped off the map." Mr. Eitan suggested that the International Criminal Court in the Hague could try Mr. Ahmadinejad, although it is not clear which of the genocide and war crimes laws would apply. The comments about a possible snatch operation came in an interview with Der Spiegel, the German news magazine, when he was asked if Mossad was still in the hunt for Nazis. "That era is over," he said. "But that's not to say that such operations are completely a thing of the past. It could very well be that a leader such as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad suddenly finds himself before the International Criminal Court in The Hague." Mr. Eitan described Mr. Ahmadinejad as someone who "spread poison." According to Mr. Eitan anyone who wanted to eradicate another people had "to expect such consequences. A man like Ahmadinejad who threatens genocide has to be brought for trial in the Hague," he said. "And all options are open in terms of how he should be brought." Asked if kidnapping was acceptable, Mr. Eitan replied: "Yes. Any way to bring him for trial in the Hague is a possibility." |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #7 Which airport is he flying into later this month? We could just point the Israelis in the right direction and do the "hear no evil, see no evil, ..." bit for ten minutes or so. |
| Posted by: AzCat 2008-09-10 20:43 |
| #6 Would anyone miss the little twerp is he were kidnapped? Seems like a lot of people would think it was a good thing. Wasn't he active in the takeover of our embassy back in 1979? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2008-09-10 17:41 |
| #5 Imanutjob is facing internal political complications, from the not quite as overtly nutso faction among the mullahs, and hes trying to change the subject. |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2008-09-10 13:20 |
| #4 Ahmadenijad ran to the UN to tattle that Israel is saying mean things to him? That certainly makes him look the strong man to me. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-09-10 13:10 |
| #3 Sounds like a versatile man- can yank a chain with his tongue in his cheek. |
| Posted by: Grunter 2008-09-10 13:08 |
| #2 Eitan doesnt matter and everybody knows it. |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2008-09-10 13:07 |
| #1 TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran has protested to the United Nations over an Israeli minister's suggestion that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad be abducted and dragged before international justice, the official IRNA news agency reported Wednesday. "The threat of force and committing crimes such as abducting a member of the United Nations is a clear violation of international rights and is contrary to the UN charter," Iran's UN representative Mohammad Khazaei was quoted as saying in the protest letter. Khazaei also denounced remarks by Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak, who said in August that Israel would use "all options," against Iran's nuclear programme. He demanded "firm action" by the UN Security Council over the threats from Israel, regarded by Iran as one of its main enemies along with the United States. "Firm action" by the UN Security Council? Good luck with that... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-09-10 12:21 |