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Posted in: Cohen misses the point -- again
03/09/09 04:17 PM
You assert as fact that Iran "orchestrates attacks on Jewish community centers" and cite the Buenos Aires bombing of 1994. I investigated that case in considerable detail in 2006 and 2007 and found that investigators found no evidence linking Iran or Hezbollah to the bombing from 1994 to 2000, as four U.S. officials, including the FBI agent who headed the team sent to assist the Argentine authorities in the investigation, told me in interviews. Furthermore the Argentine investigation was deeply tainted from the beginning by a corrupt effort at a frame-up Hezbollah and later of police associated with a political rival of the President. In 2000, the government claimed to have identified the Lebanese Hezbollah bomber. But I explain in detail in my article why that identification was completely unreliable, and was doubted seriously even by the Argentine intelligence official who had been in charge of the case. The fact that the Argentine government, Israel and the United States have continued to make the accusation in recent years does not make it true. Although space did not permit to get into the question of who may have been responsible for the bombing, I found abundant evidence to suggest that violently anti-semitic figures from the Argentine security services (militiary, police and intelligence) who had picked out jews for special treatment during the dirty war in Argentina had both the motive and the opportunity to carry out that bombing as well as the bombing of the Israeli Embassy in 1992. My article on the Buenos Aires bombing and the tainted investigation in Argentina can be found at http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080204/porter Gareth Porter Independent investigative journalist and historian