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Italy's Berlusconi: Ahmadinejad acting like 'lunatic' on Israel
By Reuters
Tags: Israel, Iran, Berlusconi 

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi accused Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday of acting like a lunatic when it comes to Israel, and said the world needed to keep a close eye on him.

"I think we must pay the utmost attention to the lunacy of someone who says, perhaps for internal reasons, that Israel must be wiped off the map," Berlusconi said to a Jewish organization in Paris, where he was receiving an award.
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A 2005 statement by Ahmadinejad saying that Israel should be "wiped off the map" outraged the international community.

The Iranian leader has since made predictions that Israel would "disappear" and, visiting Rome earlier this year for a UN summit, said the country would vanish with or without the involvement of Tehran.


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      1.   DUH! Do you expect Iranian prez to be a Zionist? 20:41  |  Fran 16/09/08
      2.   Besides Ahmadinejad.. 21:26  |  D 16/09/08
      3.   Duh Fran 21:29  |  Edifice 16/09/08
      4.   Lunatic ward for all Mullah leaders! 21:33  |  Yuri 16/09/08
      5.   #1 Get a Life 21:45  |  Mike 16/09/08
      6.   Israel`s friends. Berlusconi and bunch of old neo-fascists. 21:50  |  Michael 16/09/08
      7.   #1 Fran, problem is the solution is often worse than the problem 22:05  |  Mark B. 16/09/08
      8.   TO # ONE who are you? 22:05  |  mona 16/09/08
      9.   It takes one to know one 22:10  |  W 16/09/08
      10.   Berlusconi, the last friend of Israel. 22:36  |  Andreas 16/09/08
      11.   #1 Fran DUH! Do you expect Iranian prez to be a Zionist? 22:36  |  H 16/09/08
      12.   #2 D spins 23:02  |  Dr Noam 16/09/08
      13.   #8 you must of skipped a few classes. 23:09  |  d 16/09/08
      14.   He`ll say that after the award 23:10  |  AM 16/09/08
      15.   D,13, I think you get your news from left-wingnuts 23:30  |  The Equalizer 16/09/08
      16.   We Need to hear this from Berulusconi to know this? 23:54  |  Baruch Gold 16/09/08
      17.   Interesting example 23:57  |  Scharker Yid 16/09/08
      18.   BERLUSCONI AND ISRAEL 00:36  |  Roberto 17/09/08
      19.   BERLUSCONI TO # 8 00:40  |  Roberto 17/09/08
      20.   Isn`t it embarrassing? 02:22  |  Axel 17/09/08
      21.   Shared foolishness 02:33  |  jjvanka 17/09/08
      22.   He is not "acting as" one. He is a lunatic devil. 02:49  |  Fortuna Benmayor 17/09/08
      23.   #2 03:21  |  Michael 17/09/08
      24.   # 15 baruch 03:45  |  Axel 17/09/08
      25.   # 8 Mona in New York. 06:32  |  Maureen Ann 17/09/08
      26.   The words of an Italian gangster aren`t worth a dime. 07:24  |  ManintheMiddle 17/09/08
      27.   Italian Mafia 12:04  |  Farhang 17/09/08
      28.   The rule of Jungle 12:35  |  Farhang 17/09/08
      29.   True evidences 12:50  |  Farhang 17/09/08
      30.   Oh you`re a business man Berlusconi! 22:52  |  Persian Hero 17/09/08
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