Argentina’s new president told U.S. Jewish leaders that he is committed to investigating the 1994 bombing of the main Jewish community center in Buenos Aires. “Impunity has ended in Argentina,” Nestor Kirchner told representatives of 12 American Jewish groups Thursday at a meeting in New York. “Justice and clarity will prevail in my country.” Earlier Thursday, AMIA President Abraham Kaul said that lawyers for Argentine Jewish groups were going through recently opened police files that may shed light on the attacks.
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