Argentina's Menem charged with obstructing bomb probe

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Yesterday it was Carlos Andres Perez, today it is Memem. Justice is a-coming.



(AFP) – 1 hour ago

BUENOS AIRES — Former president Carlos Menem was charged Thursday with obstructing a probe into the 1994 bombing of a building housing Jewish charities in Argentina that killed 85 people.

Some 300 people were also wounded in the attack that leveled the seven-floor Argentine Jewish Mutual Association (AMIA) building in Buenos Aires. No one has ever been convicted for the bombing.

Federal Judge Ariel Lijo charged Menem, 79, in his investigation of irregularities that took place during the first government inquiry into the July 9, 1994 bombing.

Lijo also charged the ex-president's brother Munir Menem, the former head of intelligence services Hugo Anzorregui and retired judge Juan Jose Galeano, who was in charge of the investigation for 10 years but separated from the case in 2004.

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