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Bombers Away
Part 1: Botched Investigation
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Part 2: Menemism
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• Why haven't the terrorists responsible for the Buenos Aires bomb attacks been caught?

Nine years ago this week (March 17, 1992), 29 people were killed and 242 injured when a car bomb exploded in the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The embassy attack was followed by the July 18, 1994 bombing of the Buenos Aires' AMIA Jewish Center, which housed several Argentine Jewish organizations, that killed 86 and wounded about 300.

After nine years, the government investigation has not produced results. Nobody has been tried. Nobody has even been arrested.

The bombing of the Buenos Aires Israeli Embassy was the biggest attack against Israel abroad. Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres has urged the Argentine government to "redouble efforts to find those responsible for the attack and bring them to justice."

International organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League and B'nai B'rith continue to press the Argentine government to vigorously pursue its investigation. "The embassy bombing -- and the AMIA attack -- are issues of paramount importance to Jews around the world," said B'nai B'rith International President Richard D. Heideman. "They should be so also to Argentina and all other countries as well. They were mass murders -- committed in violation of Argentine sovereignty and in disdain for the most elemental human rights." 

The Argentine government also continues to be pressed for results by the Jewish Community of Argentina. Carlos Susevich, who lost his daughter in the attack, said, "We don't want to beg for justice, we demand it. We want the same fervor used in political speeches and campaign promises to be used to get results in the investigation."

Why hasn’t the Argentine government succeeded to find the terrorists? Could it be a matter of incompetence or corruption?

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~ Lisa Katz

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