TEHRAN, Jan 5 (Reuters) – Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad, condemned internationally for calling for Israel to
be “wiped off the map”, was quoted on Thursday as saying he was
hoping for the death of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
“Hopefully, the news that the criminal of Sabra and Shatila
has joined his ancestors is final,” the semi-official ISNA
students news agency quoted him as telling a group of Shi’ite
Muslim clerics in Iran’s holy city of Qom.
Sabra and Shatila are the names of two refugee camps in
Beirut where pro-Israeli Christian militiamen massacred
Palestinians after Sharon masterminded the 1982 Israeli invasion
of Lebanon.