“We did not know about the existence of this report until it was published in the New York Times”
The report shocked the Argentinean Jewish community and threatens to upend the investigation of the bombing, one of the deadliest anti-Semitic terrorist attacks since World War II.
“It took us by surprise,” current AMIA president Amos Linetzky tells Mishpacha. “We did not know about the existence of this report until it was published in the New York Times.”
Linetzky adds, however, that it is still to early to accept the report as conclusive: “We should be cautious, because it is an internal report and not an official statement.”
Argentinean law enforcement agencies have been conducting their own investigations since the bombing occurred. The trail has offered some enticing leads, perhaps going all the way to the highest levels of the government. Most famously, prosecutor Alberto Nisman, a Jewish attorney, was about to present condemnatory findings to an Argentine congressional panel, but was found shot to death in his apartment the night before, in January 2015.
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