September 10, 2008	Wednesday	Ramazan 09, 1429

JERUSALEM, Sept 9: A former top agent of Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad suggested on Tuesday that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad be snatched and dragged before the International Court of Justice.

“We must snatch the Iranian president who uses the same discourse as Hitler on the need to exterminate the people of Israel, in order to take him to the International Court in The Hague,” said Pensioners Minister Rafi Eitan, who is a member of Israel’s security cabinet.

“I believe Mossad has the capability of doing this,” he told army radio.

He said he had no advice as to how such an operation would be carried out.

“I leave that up to younger people,” said Eitan, 81.

As a senior Mossad agent, Eitan organised and participated in the daring capture in Buenos Aires of fugitive Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann.

Eichmann, who was considered one of the leading architects of the Holocaust, was covertly flown to Israel where he was sentenced to death and hanged.

Eitan said last week that Mossad had cancelled at the last minute a plan to also snatch notorious Nazi doctor Josef Mengele in Argentina in 1960, so as not to jeopardise the capture of Eichmann.—AFP