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Wiesel speaks out against Ahmadinejad

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel has put together about fifty Nobel Prize winners who have signed a full-page ad to appear in major newspapers that denounces Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Wiesel has his head on straight.

The prolific author has put together a petition denouncing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, signed by some 50 other Nobel prize winners, which will run as a full page advertisement in newspapers such as the New York Times.

"We're sure that the president of Iran, the world's Number 1 Holocaust denier, plans to destroy and annihilate the Jewish state, and bring disaster to the entire world," he told Army Radio, adding, "We plan to distribute the petition ... so that it reaches as many people as possible."

He said that Ahmadinejad is "dangerous because he openly claims that he wants to annihilate the State of Israel, to exterminate another six million Jews."

"I wouldn't cry if I heard that Ahmadinejad was assassinated," he quipped, calling the Iranian president "a pathological danger to world peace."

So here's the real question: Who else signed? Did Barack Obama? Jimmy Carter? Al Gore? Mohamed ElBaradei? Hmmm.

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 9:56 AM