Monday, March 9, 2009
To me, it sounds more like Iranian agents operating in Argentina rather than agents of the Argentine government. Why would government agents who did such a thing tell the victim who they were? Buenos Aires bombing investigator kidnapped, tortured
Argentinean Jewish community leaders were demanding an immediate probe Sunday into the kidnapping and torture of one of the senior investigators in the 1994 Iranian-Hizbullah bombing of the AMIA Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires.
The investigator, Claudio Lifschitz, said masked attackers nabbed him at his home on Friday night, threw him into the trunk of a van and violently interrogated him for several hours.
The men identified themselves as members of the Argentinean intelligence service and demanded to know if Lifschitz had any case material that hadn't been presented in court regarding several Iranian suspects, he said.
The assailants also burnt the letters AMIA into Lifschitz's back and arm before releasing him near the police academy premises in Buenos Aires.
"They made me get out of my car, get into a van, and they took me away," Lifschitz said. "They put a plastic bag over my head and with a blowtorch, they burnt the letters AMIA on my arm and my back."...
