Thursday, September 10, 2020

Argentine pair of terror attacks--Samuel Salman el Reda

Reuters, by J. Webb, 3-2-1999
attack.    -p. 66 of https://projects.ncsu.edu/project/acontracorriente/fall_10/articles/Greenberg.pdf
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9-10  Brazil 34/583=  5.8% increase/day  new cases/active cases  https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/brazil/
India 95.5/823.3= 11.6% increase/day  https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/india     deaths/total cases is 1.7%.
France 8.6/216= 4% increase/day   2nd wave infections for France is a bit stronger than first wave, but deaths are really low now
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/brazil/
Iran 2.3/29= 7.9% increase/day   https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/ira
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July 18, 1994:  bombing of the Argentine Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA) Jewish community center in Buenos Aires
 by J. Webb, Reuters, 3–2-1999  ``There has been reckless disregard, almost criminal negligence in the investigation,'' Zuppi said.  The AMIA attack came two years after a bomb wrecked the Israeli Embassy, killing 29.  Israel suspects Iranian-backed guerrillas in both attacks, a charge hotly denied in Tehran.
  Zuppi is convinced Argentines helped the AMIA bombers, whoever they were.
``There is a strong local connection here which still, today, five years after
the explosion, has not been investigated as it should have been,'' he told
Reuters.
  He recites a list of what seems to be at best oversight and incompetence by
investigators led by federal judge Juan Jose Galeano, who dedicates all his
time to the AMIA case and has more than 100 police and other workers at his
disposal.
  Far from being examined for clues, rubble from the blast, including human
remains and fragments of the van used as a car bomb, was carted off and dumped
outside for several years before being used as landfill in the River Plate,
Zuppi says.
  His request to speak to police who were guarding the AMIA centre on the day of
the attack led to what he said was a report strewn with errors and
contradictions of verbal accounts. Late last year, Zuppi presented a request
for 37 new measures to be taken by Galeano, leading to the discovery of the
garage used by the car thieves believed to have provided the traffic van used
in the attack -- five years too late.
  ``I don't believe the federal courts act independently. In this country in
general the federal courts respond, save some honourable exceptions, to
pressures,'' Zuppi said. He refuses to speculate about the source or motivation
of the alleged pressures on the investigation, merely asking: ``Who could have
an interest in stopping this from being known?''  Galeano declined to speak to Reuters about the charges.
  Zuppi says the man with many of the answers is car thief Carlos Telleldin, who
has been charged with supplying the traffic van that was loaded with 220-880
pounds (100-400 kg) of the explosive ammonium.  ``I can prove that Telleldin and someone from Telleldin's gang lifted up the traffic (van) and put in shock absorbers so it could carry more weight, which shows that they were thinking it had to be able to carry something like a bomb,'' Zuppi said.
  Telleldin, in prison for more than four years, has not been found guilty and
claims he supplied the van to corrupt police, not to anti-Semitic guerrillas….
Several Buenos Aires province police officers including a commissioner whose
bank balance rose by $2.5 million a week before the AMIA attack were jailed in
1997 following Telleldin's accusation….
High-profile judicial investigations have had a habit of getting nowhere in
Argentina in the past few years. Many probes have been plagued by problems with
key witnesses -- a clumsy, melancholy lot prone to fatal accidents and suicide,
it seems.
  Most notorious is the case of Alfredo Yabran, a businessman with close links to
the government who blew his brains out before police arrested him for the
strange murder of a news photographer last May.
  Witnesses in two other major investigations also decided to kill themselves
last year.  The probes into a bribe allegedly paid by U.S. giant IBM to win a
state contract and into illegal arms exports to Croatia and Ecuador have
seriously embarrassed President Carlos Menem's Peronist government.
  Argentina is home to the world's seventh-largest Jewish community. Since the
AMIA bomb it has been easy to spot their schools or community centres because
of the metal shutters and rows of concrete bollards that guard against car
bombs….
  Just days before the bombing, a Brazilian citizen (Santos, a taxi driver) presented himself at the Argentine, Israeli and Brazilian consulates in Italy and told them an attack against Jews was being planned in Argentina.  No one believed him when he said (Iranian prostitute/hairdresser) Mokhtari had links with Iranian guerrillas, until it was too late….
  Gerardo Mazur, a genial theatre director and member of Memoria Activa. ``The
local connection has to have some relation with the security organisms, with
the provincial police,'' he added.  https://groups.google.com/g/soc.culture.iranian/c/3U32tu1TSOs?pli=1
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  The Reda, or whatever he is called because he used various names of war, had a Lebanese passport, another Colombian, an application for Paraguayan naturalization and had begun the procedures to obtain Brazilian citizenship with different names, the Argentine Justice has confirmed that he was in Buenos Aires at the time of the attack, who with the name of El Reda married Silvia Sain and that her sister Karina was the secretary of the former Iranian cultural attache in Buenos Aires, Mhose Rabbani, one of those accused of having been the intellectual authors of the attack on the Jewish mutual. Furthermore, Rabbani married El Reda to Sain and an Interpol red alert weighs on him.  https://www.web24.news/u/2020/07/two-collaborators-from-el-reda-discovered-and-redouble-operations-to-stop-it.html
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  The US State Department on Friday announced a $7 million reward for information leading to the arrest of a dual Lebanese-Colombian citizen,
Samuel el Reda, alleged to have been the on-the-ground planner of the July 18, 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/07/19/us-announces-7-million-reward-for-capture-of-key-hezbollah-planner-of-1994-argentina-jewish-center-bombing-center/
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or Salman Raouf Salman -the organizer of logistics in the area of the attack against AMIA and head of Hezbollah’s external intelligence in Latin America  https://www.web24.news/u/2020/07/two-collaborators-from-el-reda-discovered-and-redouble-operations-to-stop-it.html

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