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Thursday, August 6, 2015
Former Argentine president on trial for bombing cover-up
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleBUENOS AIRES, Argentina — More than 21 years after a bomb ripped through a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, ex-President Carlos Menem, a former top judge and several other officials are on trial today for allegedly derailing the investigation into the South American nation’s worst terrorist attack.
Prosecutors have accused Iranian officials of being behind the 1994 bombing of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association, which caused the organization’s main building to collapse, killing 85 and leaving hundreds more injured amid the rubble. But no one has been convicted in the attack, which many Argentines believe has come to symbolize an inept and corrupt justice system that operates at the whims of politicians and can be bought off.
–AP
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