Eternally Grateful

Peter Malkin, who caught Adolf Eichmann in Argentina died at age 77

Peter Malkin, the Mossad agent who nabbed top Nazi official Adolf Eichmann on a Buenos Aires street in 1960, has died, Israeli media reported yesterday. He died in New York at 77.

The Mossad security agency tracked Eichmann to Argentina, and Malkin stopped him in the street. According to his memoirs, "Eichmann in My Hands," Malkin said to him simply, "Un momentito, señor" (just a moment, sir), before kidnapping him.

Those were the only words Malkin knew in Spanish, according to a Web site of the World Zionist Organization. He grabbed Eichmann's arm and wrestled him to the ground as another agent grabbed his legs, and they stuffed him into a car.

Eichmann was responsible for the death of millions as one of the prime architects of Hitler's Final Solution, which was penned at the Wanasee Conference. His capture was a high point for the Israeli Mossad, which managed to track down this heinous Nazi and brought him to justice years 15 years after the end of World War II.

This should be a reminder to anyone who thinks that the search for Osama bin Laden or Mullah Omar or any of the other high profile terrorists has gone on for too long. As the cops on CSI are fond of saying, they never close. These terrorists will be found, just as the Nazis were tracked down years later.