Chasing Islamic 'terrorists' in Paraguay

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1. Great article.

I've always wondered... if there are several "terrorist training camps" in the Triple Border, it shouldn't be so difficult to publish a single picture of a single one of them, right? Why hasn't the US government provided any evidence of its pathetic claims?

And it's so good to see someone talking about the elephant in the room:

"Investigative historian and journalist Gareth Porter - recipient of the prestigious Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism - meanwhile demonstrated in a 2008 report for the Nation that neither the suicide truck-bomb story nor claims of an Iranian motive for the AMIA attack hold water.

As Porter notes, an explosives expert from the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms produced an on-scene post-explosion report "suggesting that the blast came from inside rather than outside" the AMIA building. Furthermore, Iran was engaged until 1995 in negotiations with Argentina to revive suspended nuclear technology contracts and presumably would not have risked jeopardising the process by bombing Argentine institutions."

Also interesting to remember the negative reactions by Israeli and American authorities to the establishment of a joint Argentine-Iranian truth commission to investigate the AMIA bombings.