Special Argentine AMIA Bombing Prosecutor Orders Confiscation of Bank Accounts of Hezbollah and Former Iranian Officials

This travesty lives

10/23/2008 Alberto Nisman, ordered the confiscation of $1,000,000 (one million dollars) from bank accounts belonging to Hezbollah and to former Iranian officials, including former President Hashemi Rafsanjani and ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs Ali Akbar Velayati.

Rafsanjani has been widely hailed in the west as a moderate, and practical man who can be talked with in order to advance relations.

The indictment is based on the civil claim initiated by one of the victims injured during the 1994 attack and whose identity remains confidential (see http://www.wiesenthal.com/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=fwLYKnN8LzH&b=4423615&ct=3352753). The indictment states in part that the bombing "had structural support from the Iranian State as well as from the Lebanese group Hizbullah for its organization, financing and operation."

"This new indictment by Prosecutor Nisman strengthens the fight for justice for the victims of the AMIA bombing. We call on the international community to support this legal effort on behalf of innocent victims of terror as well for the strengthening of mechanisms to prevent the financing of terrorism," said Dr. Shimon Samuels, Director for International Relations of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

"Our Center applauds this measure, and stands in solidarity with someone who has bravely initiated a civil claim against the terrorists and the senior Iranian government officials involved in this heinous crime. We hope that the Prosecutor's indictment will encourage other victims to seek to use the legal system to strike a blow against the terrorists who shattered their lives. We also hope Argentina's indictment will serve as a model for all victims of terrorism," added Sergio Widder, Latin American Representative of the Center.

For further information please contact Sergio Widder at +54911 4425-1306

No doubt Barack believes there is some way to reason with these people in order for them to give up their millennial, religious racism. This is what the dialectic insists on, right?