Posts Tagged: AMIA Bombing
Justice Still Being Sought for Victims of Buenos Aires Jewish Community Center Bombing, 26 Years Later
Saturday will mark the 26th anniversary of the deadly bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires in which 85 people were murdered. The July...
AMIA 25 Years On: Insult, Injury and Argentina’s Upcoming Election
JNS.org - In 2006, Argentine government lawyers led by the federal prosecutor Alberto Nisman formally named the eight leading Iranian officials who planned the bombing...
Netanyahu: Israel Will Deliver ‘Crushing Blow’ in Any Future War With Hezbollah
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that if Israel was forced into another war with Hezbollah, “we will act with tremendous force and...
25 Years of Iran, Argentina, and Terrorism
Next month will mark the 25th anniversary of the bombing of the AMIA building in Buenos Aires, which took the lives of 85 people and...
House Introduces Bipartisan Resolution to Mark AMIA Bombing, Seek Justice
JNS.org - A bipartisan resolution in the US House of Representatives was introduced Thursday to condemn the 1994 attack on the Mutual Israelite Association of...
25 Years After the AMIA Bombing, Justice Is Again Denied
JNS.org - This July, Argentina’s Jewish community will mark the 25th anniversary of the bombing of the AMIA Jewish Center in Buenos Aires, in which...
Argentine Court Clears Ex-President Menem in Jewish Bombing Cover-Up Case
An Argentine court on Thursday cleared former President Carlos Menem on charges that he conspired to derail investigations into a deadly bombing at the AMIA...
Hector Timerman, Former Argentinean Foreign Minister Charged With Helping Iran Cover Up Its Role in Jewish Community Center Bombing, Dies at 65
Hector Timerman, the ex-foreign minister of Argentina who became embroiled in scandal as a result of his role in a plot aimed at covering-up Iran's...
Hezbollah Still a ‘Grave Threat’ to US and Its Allies, House Foreign Affairs Committee Warns
Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Shi'a terrorist group based in Lebanon, continues to be "a grave threat to the security of the US and its partners and allies," a statement...
Pursuing Justice for the AMIA Bombing Victims, 24 Years On
In the aftermath of the Six Day War in 1967, my new Argentine wife and I flew to Buenos Aires to meet her family. This began an...
Argentine Judge Orders Ex-Foreign Minister at Heart of AMIA Bombing Cover-Up to Remain Under House Arrest
An Argentine judge has denied a request to release former Foreign Minister Hector Timerman from a preventative detention order imposed on him last week, following a federal...
In Decades-Long AMIA Jewish Center Affair, the Truth Will Come Out
JNS.org - Like so many pins in a bowling alley, the treacherous former Argentine leaders who signed a secret pact exonerating Iran of its responsibility for...
Treason Charges in Argentina Over 1994 Bombing Cover-Up Prove Iran Was Responsible, Says AMIA President
The landmark arrests and indictments issued in Argentina on Thursday -- following a federal inquiry into the cover-up of Iran's responsibility for the 1994 bombing of...
Top US Civil Rights Group Denounces Antisemitic Smears of Prominent Argentine Jews
The Anti-Defamation League expressed solidarity with Argentina's Jewish community on Thursday, following two incidents in the South American country over the last week in which...
