Posted on 10/25/2006 12:50:18 PM PDT by BJClinton
2 minutes ago
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Argentine prosecutors asked a judge on Wednesday to issue an arrest warrant against former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani and other Iranian officials in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural center that killed scores of people.
The decision to attack the center "was undertaken in 1993 by the highest authorities of the then-government of Iran," prosecutor Alberto Nisman said at a news conference.
Nisman said the actual attack was entrusted to the Lebanon-based group Hezbollah.
The worst terrorist attack ever on Argentine soil, the bombing of the Jewish cultural center killed 85 people and injured more than 200 others when an explosive-laden vehicle was driven near the building and detonated.
Prosecutors urged the judge to seek international and national arrest orders for Rafsanjani, who was Iran's president between 1989 and 1997.
They also were asking the judge to detain several other former Iranian officials, including a former intelligence chief, Ali Fallahijan, and former Foreign Minister Ali Ar Velayati.
The judge, under Argentine law, is allowed an indefinite amount of time to accept or reject the recommendations.
Federal Judge Rodolfo Canicoba Corral had no comment following the news conference by Nisman and fellow prosecutor Marcelo Martinez Burgo.
Judging by Falklands, their brigades are of limited usefulness.
So why can't we issue arrest warrants for those responsible for the 1979 US embassy kidnappings? Including Ahmadinejad? Why aren't the victims suing them?
If I'm not mistaken, they already sued and won (at least in civil court)--getting the money is another matter, I guess.
I agree, it is sickening. And to think Khatami was here in the States being feted by academics. Khatami is receive an honorary degree at a UK university soon...phttt.
They were fighting Brits then. This time it will be some ass-backwards cultists living in the 7th century.
So they would be more or less evenly matched. And judging from the most recent Lebanon performance, ass-backward cultists living in the 7th century managed to make some unexpected progress. Would be interesting to know where they have picked it.
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