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“In 1994 the deadliest terrorist attack in Argentina occurred when a car bomb exploded in front of the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AAMIA) killing 85 people (most of whom were Argentinean Jews) and injuring hundreds. No terrorist group claimed responsibility although at the time it was assumed by the MSM to be an “Islamic terror” attack and later the accusing fingers pointed to Iran.
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US State Secretary Madeline Albright flew to Buenos Aires to ‘urge the local authorities’ to identify and punish the perpetrators, an unusual gesture if one looks at it closely: the State Secretary of one country intervenes in the police work of another country, on another continent, in the investigation of a crime in which not a single co-citizen of the Secretary’s was among the victims.
Over the years, the case investigation has been accused by the press of incompetence and cover-ups. All suspects in the “local connection” (among them, many members of the Buenos Aires Police were found to be “not guilty” in September 2004. The investigation trailed on for years thereafter.
It is not easy to summarize the history of this case, but the main points along the way were the following:
On September 2, 2004, all suspects in the “local connection” (among whom members of the Buenos Aires police) of AMIA case were found to be not guilty. Five persons, including four policemen, were therefore acquitted because of lack of evidence.
In August 2005, federal judge Juan José Galeano, in charge of the case, was impeached and removed from his post on a charge of “serious” irregularities due to the mishandling of the investigation.
Judge Galeano had followed investigations concerning the “local connection”, which included members of the police. He quickly arrested Carlos Telleldín, alleged to have provided the van and car bomb used in the bombing. But a closed circuit video broadcast on Argentine TV showed him offering Telleldín $400,000, in return for evidence, which led to Galeano’s removal from the case in 2003, and his impeachment in August 2005. The video subsequently disappeared…..”lost evidence.”
Judge Galeano had also issued warrants for the arrests of 12 Iranians, including Hade Soleimanpour, Iran’s ambassador to Argentina in 1994. The latter was arrested in the UK on August 21, 2003, at the request of the Argentine authorities. He was later released because, according to the Home Office, there was not even enough evidence presented to make a prima facie case for the extradition to proceed.
On October 25, 2006, Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman (who happens to be Jewish) accused the government of Iran of directing the bombing, and theHezbollah militia of executing it. According to the prosecution’s claims in 2006, Argentina had been targeted by Iran after Buenos Aires’ decision to suspend a nuclear technology contract between the two countries. The claim has been refuted by the fact that…. it was not true: the contract was never terminated, and Iran and Argentina were still cooperating on all agreements when the bombing occurred.
On October 25, 2006, prosecutors in Buenos Aires formally charged Iran and Shi’a militia Hezbollah with the bombing, accusing the Iranian authorities of directing Hezbollah to carry out the attack and calling for the arrest of no less than former President of IranAyatollah Rafsanjani and seven others, including some who still hold official positions in Iran.
Speaking on state radio, Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hoseyni described the accusations against the country as “a Zionist plot”. Both Hezbollah and Iran deny any involvement in the bombing. According to Hoseyni, the accusations were intended to divert “world attention from the perpetration of crimes by the Zionists against women and children in Palestine”.
In March 2009, a former investigator in the case, Claudio Lifschitz, claimed he had been abducted and tortured by men who told him not to participate in the investigation.
In August 2009, BBC News reported that Ahmad Vahidi had become Iran’s Defense minister-designate under the 2009 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad administration, and is on Interpol’s “Wanted list” over the AMIA bombing. He had been accused of planning the bombings. Iran dismissed this development as a “Zionist plot”.
On March 31, 2012, ex-President Menem was ordered to stand trial for obstruction of justice in the probe of the AMIA bombing. Menem is accused of helping to cover up the tracks of local accomplices of the attackers.
So, suspects are not indicted, or are acquitted, an ex-President, a federal judge and a large swath of the Police are accused of cover-up and corruption, a Jewish investigator claims he was abducted and tortured by strange men to intimidate him, all this supposedly leading to Iran in one way or another, yet no evidence usable in court surfaces.
Finally, with the whole country tired of this, in 2012, Argentina’s President Cristina Kirchner announced at the United Nations General Assembly that Iran and Argentina will meet to discuss any potential Iranian involvement in the attacks. Argentina’s Foreign Minister and his Iranian counterpart met on the sidelines of the UN in New York and promised to continue talks until the issue is resolved.
On January 27, 2013, the Government of Argentina announced it had signed a memorandum of understanding with Iran to establish a “truth commission” to investigate the AMIA Bombing. According to President Kirchner, the commission was established to “to analyze all the documentation presented to date by the judicial authorities of Argentina and Iran…and to give its views and issue a report with recommendations about how the case should proceed within the legal and regulatory framework of both parties.
This news was received with vivid disapproval by Jewish organizations as well as Jews in high-places in in the US government:
David Harris from the American Jewish Committee stated that “the idea of establishing a ‘truth’ commission on the AMIA tragedy that involves the Iranian regime would be like asking Nazi Germany to help establish the facts of KristallNacht.
The U.S. State Department top official in charge of Latin American Affairs, Assistant Secretary of State Roberta Jacobson, said she is “skeptical that a just solution can be found” through the so-called Argentine-Iran “truth-commission.”
The Jewish community in Argentina issued the statement “to ignore everything that Argentine justice has done and to replace it with a commission that, in the best of cases, will issue, without any defined deadline, a ‘recommendation’ to the parties constitutes, without doubt, a reversal in the common objective of obtaining justice.”
To these critics, President Kirchner replied:
“Without the cooperation of Iran, there will be no finding; without a finding there is indictment; without an indictment there is no trial, and without a trial there is no verdict. Why is it that we always have to explain the obvious here?”
In May 2013, Prosecutor Alberto Nisman published a 502-page indictment accusing Iran of… establishing terrorist networks throughout Latin America – including in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile, Colombia, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago and Suriname – dating back to the 1980s.
The latest development — for anyone with the patience to have read so far through the labyrinthine course of this case — is that the Jewish ex-Minister of the Interior of Argentina, Carlos Vladimir Corach (who happens to be Jewish), is to be investigated for his ties to the AMIA Jewish center bombing. He is alleged to have provided an illegal payment of $400,000 to Carlos Telleldin.
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Carlos Vladimir Corach, Ex-Interior Minister
The Federal Appeals Court in Buenos Aires has ordered the investigation of Carlos Vladimir Corach for allegedly giving an illegal payment of $400,000 dollars to Carlos Telleldin, an auto mechanic who was charged in the 1994 bombing, but not indicted. Telleldin was accused of providing the car bomb that blew up the Jewish center, but was never indicted.
The three Appeals Court justices urged Federal Judge Ariel Lijo to probe “the existence of concrete allegations involving Carlos Vladimir Corach, which have not been investigated until now.”
The Pope, even from far away, continues to provide his support, by observing the anniversary of the bombing:
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“In Rome, Pope Francis met with a delegation of relatives of victims of the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires. The meeting between the Argentinean-born Catholic pontiff and the relatives took place before the anniversary of the attack that killed 85 people.”
In 2005, when he was still Cardinal Bergoglio, he had been the first public personality to sign a petition demanding justice in the AMIA bombing case, called “85 victims, 85 signatures.”
Pope Francis has met with Jewish leaders several times since becoming pope, like the Latin American Jewish Congress Executive Director Claudio Epelman, Julio Schlosser, the president of the Argentine Jewish umbrella group DAIA, and others.
CONCLUSION
It is hard to believe that what plagued this case was just the incompetence of the investigators and negligent mishandling of the evidence. It is apparent that corruption was indeed involved but not, as presented in the MSM, aimed at hiding Iran’s responsibility for the bombing, despite the complete lack of evidence.
It is, nevertheless, possible, in fact even rather probable that the bombing was an Israeli false flag operation. The clues pointing that ways are the follwoing:
– The enormous pressure brought to bear on the Argentinean government and police to reach a predetermined conclusion from the highest levels of the US government, as well as the enlisting of influential clergy to sustain sympathy and focus.
–The unjustifiable failure to indict the man who was charged with providing the car bomb.
– The strange and uncommon reward given to the same man, who obtained both immunity and an enormous bribe for supposedly naming the Iranians who allegedly organized the operation.
– The personal involvement of the Jewish Interior Minister in handling the bribe delivery.
– The fantastic story of the Jewish investigator who claimed he had been abducted by strange men and tortured to scare him away from the investigation.
–The vocal rejection by the Jewish leaders in both Argentina and the US of the commission that plans to travel to Iran to interview the Iranians accused. Why would they not wish to use all means available to dig down to the truth?
But what could be the actual purpose of such a criminal false flag operation? To “sink”Iran? To set up a pretext for war with Iran upon its expected refusal to extradite its citizens/diplomats without any proof of wrong doing? As a bonus, to scare some Argentinean Jews into fleeing for the “safety” of Israel?
We may never know, but one thing is certain: the whole case, as it has evolved and as it has been presented in the MSM looks far more like a false flag operation than an “Islamic terrorist attack.”
Over the years, the case investigation has been accused by the press of incompetence and cover-ups. All suspects in the “local connection” (among them, many members of the Buenos Aires Police were found to be “not guilty” in September 2004. The investigation trailed on for years thereafter.
It is not easy to summarize the history of this case, but the main points along the way were the following:
On September 2, 2004, all suspects in the “local connection” (among whom members of the Buenos Aires police) of AMIA case were found to be not guilty. Five persons, including four policemen, were therefore acquitted because of lack of evidence.
In August 2005, federal judge Juan José Galeano, in charge of the case, was impeached and removed from his post on a charge of “serious” irregularities due to the mishandling of the investigation.
Judge Galeano had followed investigations concerning the “local connection”, which included members of the police. He quickly arrested Carlos Telleldín, alleged to have provided the van and car bomb used in the bombing. But a closed circuit video broadcast on Argentine TV showed him offering Telleldín $400,000, in return for evidence, which led to Galeano’s removal from the case in 2003, and his impeachment in August 2005. The video subsequently disappeared…..”lost evidence.”
Judge Galeano had also issued warrants for the arrests of 12 Iranians, including Hade Soleimanpour, Iran’s ambassador to Argentina in 1994. The latter was arrested in the UK on August 21, 2003, at the request of the Argentine authorities. He was later released because, according to the Home Office, there was not even enough evidence presented to make a prima facie case for the extradition to proceed.
On October 25, 2006, Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman (who happens to be Jewish) accused the government of Iran of directing the bombing, and theHezbollah militia of executing it. According to the prosecution’s claims in 2006, Argentina had been targeted by Iran after Buenos Aires’ decision to suspend a nuclear technology contract between the two countries. The claim has been refuted by the fact that…. it was not true: the contract was never terminated, and Iran and Argentina were still cooperating on all agreements when the bombing occurred.
On October 25, 2006, prosecutors in Buenos Aires formally charged Iran and Shi’a militia Hezbollah with the bombing, accusing the Iranian authorities of directing Hezbollah to carry out the attack and calling for the arrest of no less than former President of IranAyatollah Rafsanjani and seven others, including some who still hold official positions in Iran.
Speaking on state radio, Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hoseyni described the accusations against the country as “a Zionist plot”. Both Hezbollah and Iran deny any involvement in the bombing. According to Hoseyni, the accusations were intended to divert “world attention from the perpetration of crimes by the Zionists against women and children in Palestine”.
In March 2009, a former investigator in the case, Claudio Lifschitz, claimed he had been abducted and tortured by men who told him not to participate in the investigation.
In August 2009, BBC News reported that Ahmad Vahidi had become Iran’s Defense minister-designate under the 2009 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad administration, and is on Interpol’s “Wanted list” over the AMIA bombing. He had been accused of planning the bombings. Iran dismissed this development as a “Zionist plot”.
On March 31, 2012, ex-President Menem was ordered to stand trial for obstruction of justice in the probe of the AMIA bombing. Menem is accused of helping to cover up the tracks of local accomplices of the attackers.
So, suspects are not indicted, or are acquitted, an ex-President, a federal judge and a large swath of the Police are accused of cover-up and corruption, a Jewish investigator claims he was abducted and tortured by strange men to intimidate him, all this supposedly leading to Iran in one way or another, yet no evidence usable in court surfaces.
Finally, with the whole country tired of this, in 2012, Argentina’s President Cristina Kirchner announced at the United Nations General Assembly that Iran and Argentina will meet to discuss any potential Iranian involvement in the attacks. Argentina’s Foreign Minister and his Iranian counterpart met on the sidelines of the UN in New York and promised to continue talks until the issue is resolved.
On January 27, 2013, the Government of Argentina announced it had signed a memorandum of understanding with Iran to establish a “truth commission” to investigate the AMIA Bombing. According to President Kirchner, the commission was established to “to analyze all the documentation presented to date by the judicial authorities of Argentina and Iran…and to give its views and issue a report with recommendations about how the case should proceed within the legal and regulatory framework of both parties.
This news was received with vivid disapproval by Jewish organizations as well as Jews in high-places in in the US government:
David Harris from the American Jewish Committee stated that “the idea of establishing a ‘truth’ commission on the AMIA tragedy that involves the Iranian regime would be like asking Nazi Germany to help establish the facts of KristallNacht.
The U.S. State Department top official in charge of Latin American Affairs, Assistant Secretary of State Roberta Jacobson, said she is “skeptical that a just solution can be found” through the so-called Argentine-Iran “truth-commission.”
The Jewish community in Argentina issued the statement “to ignore everything that Argentine justice has done and to replace it with a commission that, in the best of cases, will issue, without any defined deadline, a ‘recommendation’ to the parties constitutes, without doubt, a reversal in the common objective of obtaining justice.”
To these critics, President Kirchner replied:
“Without the cooperation of Iran, there will be no finding; without a finding there is indictment; without an indictment there is no trial, and without a trial there is no verdict. Why is it that we always have to explain the obvious here?”
In May 2013, Prosecutor Alberto Nisman published a 502-page indictment accusing Iran of… establishing terrorist networks throughout Latin America – including in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile, Colombia, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago and Suriname – dating back to the 1980s.
The latest development — for anyone with the patience to have read so far through the labyrinthine course of this case — is that the Jewish ex-Minister of the Interior of Argentina, Carlos Vladimir Corach (who happens to be Jewish), is to be investigated for his ties to the AMIA Jewish center bombing. He is alleged to have provided an illegal payment of $400,000 to Carlos Telleldin.
Carlos Vladimir Corach, Ex-Interior MinisterThe Federal Appeals Court in Buenos Aires has ordered the investigation of Carlos Vladimir Corach for allegedly giving an illegal payment of $400,000 dollars to Carlos Telleldin, an auto mechanic who was charged in the 1994 bombing, but not indicted. Telleldin was accused of providing the car bomb that blew up the Jewish center, but was never indicted.
The three Appeals Court justices urged Federal Judge Ariel Lijo to probe “the existence of concrete allegations involving Carlos Vladimir Corach, which have not been investigated until now.”
The Pope, even from far away, continues to provide his support, by observing the anniversary of the bombing:
“In Rome, Pope Francis met with a delegation of relatives of victims of the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires. The meeting between the Argentinean-born Catholic pontiff and the relatives took place before the anniversary of the attack that killed 85 people.”
In 2005, when he was still Cardinal Bergoglio, he had been the first public personality to sign a petition demanding justice in the AMIA bombing case, called “85 victims, 85 signatures.”
Pope Francis has met with Jewish leaders several times since becoming pope, like the Latin American Jewish Congress Executive Director Claudio Epelman, Julio Schlosser, the president of the Argentine Jewish umbrella group DAIA, and others.
CONCLUSION
It is hard to believe that what plagued this case was just the incompetence of the investigators and negligent mishandling of the evidence. It is apparent that corruption was indeed involved but not, as presented in the MSM, aimed at hiding Iran’s responsibility for the bombing, despite the complete lack of evidence.
It is, nevertheless, possible, in fact even rather probable that the bombing was an Israeli false flag operation. The clues pointing that ways are the follwoing:
– The enormous pressure brought to bear on the Argentinean government and police to reach a predetermined conclusion from the highest levels of the US government, as well as the enlisting of influential clergy to sustain sympathy and focus.
–The unjustifiable failure to indict the man who was charged with providing the car bomb.
– The strange and uncommon reward given to the same man, who obtained both immunity and an enormous bribe for supposedly naming the Iranians who allegedly organized the operation.
– The personal involvement of the Jewish Interior Minister in handling the bribe delivery.
– The fantastic story of the Jewish investigator who claimed he had been abducted by strange men and tortured to scare him away from the investigation.
–The vocal rejection by the Jewish leaders in both Argentina and the US of the commission that plans to travel to Iran to interview the Iranians accused. Why would they not wish to use all means available to dig down to the truth?
But what could be the actual purpose of such a criminal false flag operation? To “sink”Iran? To set up a pretext for war with Iran upon its expected refusal to extradite its citizens/diplomats without any proof of wrong doing? As a bonus, to scare some Argentinean Jews into fleeing for the “safety” of Israel?
We may never know, but one thing is certain: the whole case, as it has evolved and as it has been presented in the MSM looks far more like a false flag operation than an “Islamic terrorist attack.”