Who the fuÇk Would Attack Elie Wiesel?!

[Dr_Evil_Mouse]

I can't believe that somebody would crawl so low in the chain of being to lift a finger against this man. I just hope this is some banal story blown too far out of proportion.

Holocaust Survivor Elie Wiesel Assaulted

Last Updated: Friday, February 9, 2007 | 8:36 PM ET

The Associated Press

Nobel laureate and Holocaust scholar Elie Wiesel was dragged from an elevator and roughed up during a peace conference at a San Francisco hotel last week, police said Friday.

The author was not injured.

The assailant approached Wiesel in an elevator Feb. 1 at the Argent Hotel and requested an interview, police Sgt. Neville Gittens said.

When Wiesel consented to talk in the hotel's lobby, the man insisted it be done in a hotel room and dragged the 78-year-old off the elevator on the sixth floor, Gittens said.

The assailant fled after Wiesel began to scream, and Wiesel went to the lobby and called police.

Gittens said police are investigating the incident as a crime.

He said investigators were aware of a posting at an anti-Semitic website in which a man claimed responsibility for the attack, but declined to comment further.

Wiesel couldn't be immediately reached for comment at Boston University, where he teaches, or through his institute in New York.

Wiesel, who survived the Nazi death camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald during the Second World War, has worked for human rights in many parts of the world and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.

[afro poppa]

bogus

[MarcO]

nuts. Gotta shake your head when violence breaks out at a peace conference.