Buenos Aires Bombing Investigator Kidnapped, Tortured

[Jerusalem Post] Argentinean Jewish community leaders were demanding an immediate probe Sunday into the kidnapping and torture of a senior investigator in the 1994 Iranian-Hizbullah bombing of the AMIA Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires. Claudio Lifschitz said masked attackers nabbed him at his home on Friday, threw him into the trunk of a van and violently interrogated him for several hours. "They put a plastic bag over my head and with a blowtorch, they burnt the letters AMIA on my arm and my back," Lifschitz said.


2009-03-09 06:00:00

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