(Newsweek) Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball - In a secretly recorded conversation, recently arrested Abdurahman al-Amoudi, president of the American Muslim Foundation, discussed the attacks by al-Qaeda in 1998 on two U.S. embassies in Africa: "What is the result you achieve in destroying an embassy in an African country? I prefer to hit a Zionist target in America or Europe....I prefer, honestly, like what happened in Argentina....The Jewish Community Center. It is a worthy operation." The reference was apparently to the July 18, 1994, car-bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires that killed 86 people.
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