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Bombers Away
Part 4: Future Investigation
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Part 1: Botched Investigation
Part 2: Menemism
Part 3: The Syrian Connection
Part 4: Future Investigation

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• Why haven't the terrorists responsible for the Buenos Aires bomb attacks been caught?

Thus, according to this recent report, "The Trail that Menem Fears" leads to a Syrian connection to the bombings. "Its principal "proof," however, is the resistance to following the various leads, which may have proven this Syrian connection."

Last March, the newly elected President Fernando de la Rua and his entire Cabinet attended a public ceremony inaugurating a public square where the embassy once stood. The Argentinean Jewish Community warmly welcomed this change in leadership, and expressed their hope that the new administration would be able to bring those guilty of the bombings to justice. 

This March, de la Rua was too busy dealing with the country’s financial crisis to attend the memorial ceremony. Only the deputy justice minister attended the commemoration. It appears that, even with the change in leadership, the investigation into the bombings may not succeed.

So far, the terrorists have won. People have died, people have been scarred for life, and fear has been instilled. 

What do you think should/can/will be done, in this tenth year since the bomb attack, to achieve justice?

Sources

Blast at Israeli Embassy recalled amid anger that case still unsolved, by Nicolas Penchaszadeh.
http://www.jta.org/story.asp?story=7264

B'nai B'rith: Argentina Urged To Solve Israeli Embassy Bombing.
http://bnaibrith.org/pr/argentina31299.html

New Report Links Syria to 1992 Bombing of Israeli Embassy in Argentina, by Blanca Madani
http://www.meib.org/articles/0003_s1.htm

U.S. Department of State 1996 April: Patterns of Global Terrorism, 1995, by
Office of the Secretary and Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Philip C. Wilcox, Jr.
http://www.hri.org/docs/USSD-Terror/95/latin.html#Argentina


~ Lisa Katz

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