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| Suspect Held For Planned Attack On Jewish Center In Buenos Aires |
| 2014-10-09 |
[IsraelTimes] Argentinian anti-terror police on Wednesday jugged... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... a man suspected of planning to attack a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires. Argentina ...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita... 's national security secretary, Sergio Berni, said that police received an alert a week ago from Interpol of a possible plot to attack the Sociedad Hebraica. "A week ago we received from Interpol offices in Manchester an alert about a possible attack against Sociedad Hebraica (Jewish community center) in Buenos Aires City," Berni said to news hounds. The suspect, 57, was arrested Tuesday at an Internet cafe in Buenos Aires by the Anti-Terrorist Division of the Federal Police. Berni declined to provide additional details other than to say that 1,500 security personnel had been deployed to 99 sites in the last week, which coincided with the Jewish High Holidays season. After a bomb threat posted on Facebook last week, the Sociedad Hebraica was evacuated last Thursday night (October 2) and was closed the following day (on the eve of Yom Kippur) for security reasons. "We are very satisfied by the actions of the police and the Justice Ministry in this case," Julio Schlosser, the president of Argentina's political umbrella group, DAIA, told Argentine media. Buenos Aires was the site of two major attacks on Jewish sites in the 1990s. A 1992 attack on the Israeli Embassy killed 29. The 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center left 85 dead. Argentinian prosecutor Alberto Nisman traced the authorization for the July 18, 1994 terrorist attack to a meeting of Iran's National Security Council held a year before, and compiled sufficiently compelling evidence of Iran's role in the crime as to have several leading Iranian figures, including former defense minister Ahmad Vahidi and last year's failed presidential candidate Mohsen Rezai, placed on an Interpol "red notice" list. The final decision to attack the AMIA center was allegedly made by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and then-president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani ... the fourth President of Iran. He was a member of the Assembly of Experts until he was eased out in 2011 He continues, for the moment, as Chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council. In 2005 he ran for a third term as president, ultimately losing to rival Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was in Khamenei's graces back then. In 1980 Rafsanjani survived an assassination attempt, during which he was seriously injured. He has been described as a centrist and a pragmatic conservativewithout all that much reason. He is currently being eased out of any position of actual influence or power and may be dead by the end of 2012... The specific motivation for the 1994 AMIA bombing, according to Nisman, was to punish Argentina for suspending its nuclear cooperation with Iran. Once the decision was taken to act against the country, Nisman told the Times of Israel last year, it was a Jewish target that was decided upon -- again, a familiar Iranian strategy. "When they choose to act against a country, the attack is commonly on the Jewish community," he said. "It's the first target." Speaking with The Times of Israel soon after he issued a new 500-page report on the bombing and Iran's wider terrorist infiltration of South America, Nisman said that Tehran had established its terror networks for the strategic long term, ready to be used "whenever it needs them." |
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| #1 another Iranian Catspaw? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-10-09 09:12 |