Monday, August 24, 2009

Ahmad Vahidi, Iranian Cabinet Nominee, Wanted In Bombing Of Argentine Jewish Center

CAIRO — The man Iran's president has named to be defense minister is wanted in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires, and his nomination drew an outcry Friday from Argentina and Jewish groups.

Ahmad Vahidi, who commanded a unit of Iran's Revolutionary Guard known as the Quds Force at the time of the attack, was nominated by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Wednesday along with others named to fill Cabinet positions. The Quds Force is involved in operations abroad, including working with Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group, which is accused of carrying out the Buenos Aires attack.

Argentina Prosecutor Alberto Nisman told The Associated Press Friday that Vahidi is accused of "being a key participant in the planning and of having made the decision to go ahead with the attack against the Argentine-Israeli Mutual Association."

Nisman has led the investigation into the July 18, 1994, bombing – Argentina's bloodiest terrorist attack. The bomb exploded inside a van outside the Argentine-Israeli Mutual Association, killing 85 people and wounding 200.
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12 comments:

  1. anandAugust 24, 2009 at 2:08 PM

    thanks for this. Hizbullah was wrong to do this if they did it. Marion keeps insisting that Hizbullah and Khamenei had nothing to do with it; that it was either Takfiri or local Argentines.

    Where does everyone come down on who might have done this.

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  2. r.s.August 25, 2009 at 5:56 AM

    I don't like defending this man, but he's not guilty of what he has been he's been accused of. The case of the Argentine government faild to prove anything. The story that Hizbollah agents planted a bomb at the direction of Iran has been extensively debunked.

    From the Nation magazine
    <span style="">"This propaganda campaign depends heavily on a decision last November by the General Assembly of Interpol, which voted to put five former Iranian officials and a Hezbollah leader on the international police organization's "red list" for allegedly having planned the July 1994 bombing. But the Wall Street Journal reports that it was pressure from the Bush Administration, along with Israeli and Argentine diplomats, that secured the Interpol vote. In fact, the Bush Administration's manipulation of the Argentine bombing case is perfectly in line with its long practice of using and distorting  manufactured evidence to build a case against its geopolitical enemies."</span><span style=" text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; mso-bidi-"></span>

    http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080204/porter

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  3. anandAugust 25, 2009 at 11:03 AM

    RS, who was resposible for the two Argentine terrorist attacks? Was it the Takfiri? Someone did it. If not Hezbollah and Khamenei, than who?

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  4. vAugust 25, 2009 at 5:54 PM

    It was your grandmother anand

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  5. vAugust 25, 2009 at 5:54 PM

    again!

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  6. vzaAugust 25, 2009 at 8:56 PM

    Hezbollah never does anything wrong. It is a social welfare organization and lives only for the best interests of Lebanon and its diverse people. Right?

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  7. vAugust 26, 2009 at 6:35 AM

    Just like you represent "fair and balanced"

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  8. Jemmy HopeAugust 26, 2009 at 8:03 AM

    Was it the Takfiri? I have nightmares about the TAKFIRI and I wet my bed.
    Where's my apology you suppurescent dog's dick?

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  9. anandAugust 26, 2009 at 11:22 AM

    If stupid brits don't know what Takfiri are . . . well the Brits are doing worse than I thought.

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  10. anandAugust 26, 2009 at 11:23 AM

    You Brits enabled the House of Saud and their extremist Takfiri to capture so much of the Arabian peninsula. They have wrecked much of the world and greatly harmed Britain to boot.

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  11. Jemmy HopeAugust 27, 2009 at 7:34 AM

    Where's my apologogy you venomous toad?

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  12. Jemmy HopeAugust 27, 2009 at 7:34 AM

    Where's my apology, you venomous toad?

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