Sharon fears arrest if he visits London

[emad]

September 17, 2005

Sharon fears arrest if he visits London
By Ian MacKinnon, Sean O’Neill and David Charter
Israeli leader snubs Blair’s invitation after court issues warrant for general



BRITAIN is desperate to avoid a diplomatic row with Israel after Ariel Sharon apparently snubbed an invitation from Tony Blair to visit London, claiming that he feared arrest.

The Israeli Prime Minister is understood to have cited the case of a senior general who narrowly escaped detention at Heathrow on war crimes charges last week. Doran Almog remained on an El Al Boeing 747 rather than risk falling into the hands of Scotland Yard after a human rights group lodged charges that cannot be brought in Israel.

Mr Blair suggested that Mr Sharon could visit Britain when the pair met for talks on the sidelines of the United Nations’ 60th anniversary summit in New York. The Israeli premier shot back that because of his years of army service he could also find himself facing arrest.

“I would really like to visit Britain,” Mr Sharon was said to have told Mr Blair. “The trouble is that I, like Major-General Almog, also served in the (Israeli Defence Force) for many years. I too am a general. I have heard that the prisons in Britain are very tough. I wouldn’t like to find myself in one.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1784018,00.html

[leesa]

1. Oh please, someone arrest that bastard.

[BlueJac]

2. Please someone arrest GW Bush.......

this country might have to do it someday.

[peacetalksforall]

3. It's time to face reality and before it all starts again. It is not anti-

semitic to disapprove of Sharon and his supporters and all the men and women of Jewish faith who are players, go-betweens, and possible traitors to the U.S. in the cabal of the right wing.

The U.S. cannot expect to use taxpayer money to shore up Israel at the expense of continual and potentially lethal war. The U.S. cannot expect to exploit the world by maintaining a brotherhood with the Saudi royalty, the Israeli ruling party, and the British in such a way that peace is not possible and Moslems continue to resent our little 'axis'.

Now Sharon joins Pinochet and Kissinger in a club of men who cannot travel to certain countries. How large is that club going to be? Will Blair himself be included one day?

[emad]

5. Poodle's personal cell already waiting for him at London's Belmarsh

jail, where he can contemplate the consequences of conspiracy to committ mass murder, treason, world record-breaking fraud and acts of genocide.

[emad]

4. Sharon, Ratzinger and Pinochet have some history that Poodle,

Dumbass and other terror-spawners like Major, Thatcher, Reagan & Bush1 bankrolled into Official Secrets Act oblivion. But the P2 Lodge ain't totally dead, it's just dormant.

Sharon has good reasons to feat=r the UK Law Lords - remember what happened to Pinochet when he came to London for a little medical business back in 1998...

[tjwmason]

6. Sharon would be travelling on a diplomatic passport.

Which would present problems in his arrest.

[Coastie for Truth]

7. This is no bull - we changed our reservation for an Italian tour

Our original reservations were with a change of planes at heathrow - and two days in London.

We are now going directly to Rome.

Between the two of us we have contributed to the JNF, Hadassah, Technion, Hebrew University, etc. - and we do fear police harassment at Heathrow. (aiding and abetting, conspiracy, accessory before the fact, who knows what else a shyster Barrister or Professor Sue Blackwell can dream up.

G'day mates. Cheerio, God save the Queen and all of that falderal.

[barb162]

8. Hadassah...real subversives

Bwahaha! Have a wonderful time in Rome

[Team44Car]

9. Sharon and buds should show them: they should go stand trial!

[Scurrilous]

10. Britain's Straw says he 'thinks' Sharon is safe to enter U.K.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/626238.html

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"British Foreign Minister Jack Straw on Sunday stopped short of offering Prime Minister Ariel Sharon a full guarantee that he would be free from prosecution if he were to visit Britain.

Asked if he could reassure the Israeli leader that he would not be arrested if he came to Britain, Straw at first hesitated.

"I think so, although let me say these are all matters for the courts and not for me," he told BBC television in an interview.

His comments may lend credence to a report in The Times on Saturday which said Sharon had snubbed an invitation from British Prime Minister Tony Blair to visit London, claiming he feared arrest."

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"Justice Minister Tzipi Livni intends to present the government with a proposal under which the state would allocate $1 million for funding legal procedures for senior Israel Defense Forces officers against whom lawsuits have been filed abroad over their activities in the army.

The proposal will be debated and voted on at the cabinet's weekly meeting on Sunday."

[barb162]

11. Straw apology on Israeli arrest

Straw apology on Israeli arrest

The Israeli foreign minister said the attempted arrest was an "outrage"
Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has apologised to his Israeli counterpart over the attempted arrest of a general accused of war crimes.
Major General Doron Almog, ex-head of Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip, faced private prosecution charges.

The Foreign Office says Mr Straw apologised to Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom "as a courtesy".


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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4270664.stm