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AG recommends President Katsav should face rape charges
Haaretz ^ | 1/23/07 | Nextrush

Posted on 01/23/2007 6:28:16 AM PST by Nextrush

Attorney General Menachem Mazuz decided Thursday that President Moshe Katsav should face charges for alleged rape and other incidents of sexual assault.

Katsav has been accused of raping a former employee of the President's Residence, known only as "A"."

Mazuz' recommendation was expected some six weeks ago, but was delayed after District Attorney Eli Abarbanel said there was not enough evidence to press charges in at least some of the 14 cases against the president.....

(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government; Israel
KEYWORDS: katsav
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At least one president in the world can get charged with rape.........
1 posted on 01/23/2007 6:28:17 AM PST by Nextrush
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To: Nextrush

how ya spin a rape charge?....


2 posted on 01/23/2007 6:35:29 AM PST by wildcatf4f3 (Find out what brand the Ethiopians are drinking and send a case to all my generals.)
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To: wildcatf4f3

Just call Bill & Hill for advice.


3 posted on 01/23/2007 6:37:04 AM PST by TruthWillWin
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To: wildcatf4f3

President is a ceremonial post in Israel, but it adds to the mess with many calling for Prime Minister Olmert to resign because of the failure to defeat Hezbollah in Lebanon last year.

Katsav has tried to discredit his accuser-accusers in recent weeks but apparently failed. Right now he says he won't resign today. We'll see what happens.


4 posted on 01/23/2007 6:40:27 AM PST by Nextrush (Chris Matthews Band: "I get high....I get high.....I get high....McCain.")
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To: wildcatf4f3
How ya spin a rape charge?....

Hire James Carville, re-define "rape", call the accuser a money grubbin' Ho, talk about VRWC or VLWC, say she asked for it, call in Jesee Jackass for spiritual healing, and last but not least bite your upper lip and shed a tear............

5 posted on 01/23/2007 6:45:17 AM PST by Red Badger (Rachel Carson is responsible for more deaths than Adolf Hitler...............)
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To: Red Badger

This is what you get when you drag a dollar bill through a kibbutz....


6 posted on 01/23/2007 6:46:36 AM PST by Right Angler
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To: Nextrush
President Katsav?


7 posted on 01/23/2007 6:47:21 AM PST by McBuff
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To: Nextrush

Beware of Arkancide!


8 posted on 01/23/2007 6:48:50 AM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: McBuff

Put some ice on that.


9 posted on 01/23/2007 6:49:01 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: wildcatf4f3

>how ya spin a rape charge?....

"Ya better put some ice on it."


10 posted on 01/23/2007 6:52:03 AM PST by MindBender26 (Having my own CAR-15 in Vietnam meant never having to say I was sorry......)
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To: Right Angler

Are you kibbutzing?.....


11 posted on 01/23/2007 6:55:48 AM PST by Red Badger (Rachel Carson is responsible for more deaths than Adolf Hitler...............)
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To: MindBender26

Pardon me, I should have said; "onton a bisel yener."


12 posted on 01/23/2007 6:56:57 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
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13 posted on 01/23/2007 7:20:12 AM PST by SJackson (Let a thousand flowers bloom and let all our rifles be aimed at the occupation, Abu Mazen 1/11/07)
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To: Right Angler

lmao


14 posted on 01/23/2007 7:49:05 AM PST by meanie monster (I am not a racist,,I hate everyone equally)
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To: McBuff

yikes....whadda big A$$'d nose he has there...lol


15 posted on 01/23/2007 7:50:28 AM PST by meanie monster (I am not a racist,,I hate everyone equally)
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To: Nextrush

Who does he think he is? Bill Clinton? Sheesh.


16 posted on 01/23/2007 8:04:32 AM PST by MizSterious (Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
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To: Nextrush

This is a political lynching, to take attention away from Olmert's high crimes and misdemeanors.


17 posted on 01/23/2007 8:10:56 AM PST by Alouette (Learned Mother of Zion)
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To: Nextrush
"Just drag a 100-shekel bill through a Tel Aviv trailer park."
18 posted on 01/23/2007 8:40:41 AM PST by Brad from Tennessee (Anything a politician gives you he has first stolen from you)
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To: Right Angler

My reply too, only I think it's hundred dollars bills.


19 posted on 01/23/2007 9:00:10 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (The women got the vote and the Nation got Harding.)
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"At least one president in the world can get charged with rape........."

Has Bubba got his law licence back yet?

20 posted on 01/23/2007 9:17:17 AM PST by cake_crumb (When "bipartisan study groups" prosecute wars, you get Another Viet Nam)
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