If you believe Sharon is a criminal, will you please share with us the knowledge you have of the crimes he has committed? Thank you.
If memory serves me he's being investigated for illegal campaign contributions and was somehow connected to a bank that was involved in money laundering. This is a sad day indeed. Bush's support for today's action is extremely disappointing. Just add this to an increasingly long list...
For starters, he campaigned on a refusal to withdraw from Gaza, and then implemented the withdrawal despite a majority popular vote against the measure, and the express will of the members of his coalition. That's not indictable, but it's morally criminal.
But as for literal criminality, he appears to be guilty of that as well. As this article describes, two journalists from Yediot Acharonot have built a very credible case that Sharon feared indictment for accepting bribes to use his power as foreign minister to pressure Greece into selling real-estate to an Israeli developer. The "Greek Island Scandal" was under investigation, and when Sharon announced the disengagement plan the investigation was quietly dropped.