A chance to arrest Ahmadinejad?

I agree....Germany should arrest him if offered the chance.

Never mind the football hooligans. The thorniest political dilemma facing Germany as it prepares to host the World Cup is what to do about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s hardline president, if he insists on coming to watch his team play next month.

Germany is obliged to admit the head of state of a participating nation, and the tournament’s official motto is "A Time To Make Friends". But Mr Ahmadinejad has demanded Israel’s destruction and has repeatedly denied the holocaust - a crime in Germany.

By unhappy coincidence Iran’s first match is in the stadium on the Nuremberg complex used by Hitler for his mass rallies, and German neo-Nazis are planning a march in support of Mr Ahmadinejad. But Israel, Iranian exiles and leading German politicans are demanding that he is kept away.

"The question is whether Germany as host can prevent the visit of a head of state who has shown himself to be a repulsive and embarrassing anti-Semite," said Ehud Olmert, the Israeli Prime Minister. "The spirit of the World Cup is in absolute contradiction to the spirit that he represents."

An angry editorial comment in the Jerusalem Post this week accused Germany of trading with Iran, and appeasing its nuclear ambitions, and continued: "Germany’s behaviour toward Iran is a clear sign that for all its Holocaust memorialising, for all its anti-Nazi legislation, and for all its protestations of friendship with Israel and the Jewish people, Germany has not learned the lessons of the Holocaust."