Ha'aretz (Sunday): Prosecutors lean toward indicting Sharon

[Jack Rabbit]

From Ha'aretz (Jerusalem)
Dated Sunday January 25

Prosecutors lean toward indicting PM
By Baruch Kra

The prosecutors assigned to the investigation of what is known as the "Greek island" affair tend to agree with the acting attorney general that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon should be indicted on a bribe-taking charge.
Businessman David Appel was indicted last week on a charge of bribing the prime minister and his deputy, Ehud Olmert, during the late 1990s, as part of the Greek island affair. State Prosecutor and acting Attorney General Edna Arbel said she believes there is sufficient evidence to charge Sharon.
However, prosecutors Rahel Shiber, Ella Rubinek and Ita Nahman said that, while they are inclined to agree with Arbel on indicting Sharon, they are disposed to closing the case against Industry and Trade Minister Olmert.
The case against Olmert consists of a substantial amount of evidence pertaining to the time in which he served as Jerusalem mayor, such as secret recordings of telephone calls showing a clear proximity between the help Olmert gave Appel, in meeting the mayor of Athens, and the help Appel gave Olmert in the 1999 Likud primaries.

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[pacifictiger]

1. and Sharon

is Cheney's close buddy.

[Lithos]

2. Sharon the man

Has shown himself before to consider himself above the law in many ways. I personally think he is Israel's Nixon who will ultimately be shown to have dishonored the office of the Prime Minister. Maybe not this time, but another will crop up.

L-

[Jack Rabbit]

3. Sharon is in his mid-seventies

If they don't get him now, Father Time will get him first.