Argentinas Presidente Covered up Iranian Terror

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It seems that the Jewish people have few friends in South America (or America for that matter). The president herself supports the antisemitic Iranian terrorism which killed many Jews in Buenos Aires in the July 1994 attack on the Jewish center there.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Terrorism/argentina.html

In 1992 and 1994, two bombs devastated the Argentinean Jewish community and marked the arrival of Middle Eastern terrorism to South America.

The Israeli Embassy in Argentina's capital of Buenos Aires was the site of the first explosion - a car bomb - on March 17, 1992. The attack killed 29 people and injured more than 250 others. Among the victims were Israeli diplomats, children, clergy from a church located across the street, and other passersby. The investigation of the case was assigned to Argentina's Supreme Court and the Chief Justice Ricardo Levene was given the task of investigating and presenting his findings to the court. For over two years, however, the investigation languished and virtually no action was taken, despite the fact that Islamic Jihad had claimed responsibility for the explosion.

It was not until July 18, 1994, that the case received serious attention. On that date, the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA) Jewish community center in Buenos Aires was bombed - 87 people were killed and over 100 people were injured. This time, Judge Jose Galeano was assigned to investigate the case but, like Judge Levene, he made little progress.

Later in 1994 came the first of several breakthroughs in the embassy bombing case. Six Lebanese citizens and one Brazilian, arrested for operating a drug cache, were found to be members of Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Lebanese terrorist organization. The Argentine government immediately announced that the men were tied to the embassy bombing, however after several days the supposed suspects were released due to a lack of evidence.

Interest in both cases arose again two years later, in 1996, when the Argentine National Academy of Engineers revealed an "internal explosion theory" that, according to their findings, a bomb had detonated inside of the Israeli Embassy rather than outside in a car. The theory's conclusion indicated that the Israeli Embassy was attacked by an employee of the embassy rather than by an external enemy terrorist. The engineers who produced this report had blatantly ignored the evidence that indicated a bomb had been set off in a car outside the building and the fact that the Islamic Jihad had admitted responsibility for the attack did not seem to deter the engineers and the Supreme Court from blaming Israelis for their own catastrophe.
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The Argentine prosecutor who took over the investigation of the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires following the death of Alberto Nisman has taken the next step in bringing formal charges against President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner for allegedly trying to cover up Iran's role in the attack.

Prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita's decision to go forward with the case is significant because it sets the stage for a close examination of the investigation that prosecutor Nisman was building before he was found dead Jan. 18.

Nisman had accused Fernández de Kirchner, Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman and others in her administration of brokering the cover up in exchange for favorable deals on oil and other goods from Iran. Fernández has strongly denied the accusations, and Iran has repeatedly denied involvement in the bombing, which killed 85 people.

Pollicita will present his finding to Judge Daniel Rafecas, the federal magistrate assigned to the case who will ultimately decide whether to dismiss it or indict the president and others named in the report. Pollicita's 62-page statement was posted on the prosecutor general’s website and is addressed Rafecas.

"Nisman determined the decision to shield those of Iranian origin who were implicated in the July 18, 1994, terrorist attack," Pollicita's report reads, "was taken by Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the chief executive, and carried out, for the most part, by the Minister of Foreign Relations, Héctor Timerman."

A number of others were named in the charges, including congressman Andrés Larroque.

Pollicita's action was widely expected.

Jason Marczak, deputy director of the Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center at the Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C., told Fox News Latino, "There was no way that this step wasn't going to be taken. Not having taken it would have made people cry foul and suspect a cover-up."

Even before Pollicita's decision, amid rumors that it was coming, the administration was moving to both reject and minimize it.

Speaking to reporters early Friday, Presidential spokesman Anibal Fernández said moving the case forward was a "clear maneuver to destabilize democracy" but that ultimately "it has no legal value. It does not matter."

According to the New York Times, both Fernández de Kirchner and Timerman have immunity as serving members of the executive branch. In order to bring them to trial for these charges, a judge would authorize a political trial – a proceeding somewhat analogous to an impeachment in the United States – and ask Congress to lift their immunity.

"Fernández de Kirchner has 10 months left in office," Marczak pointed out. "It's very unlikely we're going to see her brought to trial while still president."

A silent march has been scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 18, the one-month anniversary of Nisman's death.

If nothing else, Marczak said, "These charges will change the nature of the marches next week. You're likely to start to see calls for Fernández de Kirchner to be impeached."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.