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Gopher



Joined: 04 Jun 2005

PostPosted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 12:10 am    Post subject: Argentine Judge vs. Tehran... Reply with quote

Interesting to see where this will lead, if anywhere. If Rafsanjani leaves Iranian territory now, he might just be "Pinocheted."

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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (Reuters) -- An Argentine judge ordered international arrest warrants on Thursday for former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and eight others in connection with the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish community center.

The warrants, handed down by Federal Judge Rodolfo Canicoba Corral, came after Argentine prosecutors accused the Iranian government of masterminding the attack that killed 85 people and wounded more than 200 others.

Tehran has repeatedly denied involvement.

On July 18, 1994, a truck laden with explosives leveled the the seven-story Argentine Israeli Mutual Association building, a symbol of the country's Jewish community -- Latin America's largest.

No one has been convicted of carrying out the attack despite a lengthy probe beset by irregularities.

But Argentine, Israeli and U.S. officials have long blamed the bombing on Hezbollah guerrillas backed by Iran.

Rafsanjani was Iran's president from 1989 to 1997.


http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/11/09/argentina.iran.reut/index.html
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kimchikowboy



Joined: 24 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 12:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I was teaching in Buenos Aires several years ago. Before a class in the downtown, I was sitting in a little area beside a building waiting for time to go to class. I had just moved there, so money was scarce. I had bought a history book -- Rise and Fall of the Third Reich -- because it had the most pages for the price, and it was in my bag. Paperback, black cover, large swastika on the front. Also in my bag was a new Time magazine, with a cover story on Peron and the Nazis, also with a large swastika. (I like to read history). A cop walks up and asks me for identification. Because street theft and robbery were common, I didn't carry a wallet, so had none. He takes out a walkie-talkie and talks to someone. A guy in a suit comes out and asks to look in my bag. Sure, no problem. I ask why the hassle. They tell me that I am standing outside of the Israeli embassy (also bombed a few years before). So I have no ID, I'm a foreigner, I'm teaching illegally (everyone does) and I have a bag with lots of swastika-emblazoned reading materials. They, being Argentines, didn't seem to notice these things and let me go.
Actually, everyone knows that it was the police that did all of the dirty work in the bombings anyway.
I did, however, find a new place to wait for that class.
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Big_Bird



Joined: 31 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 12:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I hope they do get to the bottom of it - it was a horrible crime. It's sickening that the perpetrators have so far got away with it.

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Actually, everyone knows that it was the police that did all of the dirty work in the bombings anyway.

There were rumours that it was the Argentinian military (who are notorious for their anti-semitic activity).
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Gopher



Joined: 04 Jun 2005

PostPosted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 8:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Big_Bird wrote:
...Argentinian military (who are notorious for their anti-semitic activity).


I have not heard these rumors (what you and kimchikowboy reference, above). But it is true that the Argentine military (as well as many other Latin American armed forces) are pronouncedly antisemitic.

Check out Jacobo Timmerman's Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number.
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