Argentina Bombing Whistleblower Allegedly Kidnapped, TorturedWednesday, March 11, 2009
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentina on Wednesday launched a probe into the alleged kidnapping and torture of an attorney who accused top officials of a coverup in the nation's worst terrorist attack.
The apparent abduction of Claudio Lifschitz on Friday has raised new questions about whether powerful people still have something to hide about the 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural center that killed 85 people.
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Lifschitz testified in closed court Wednesday about the attack at the request of the judge investigating the bombing. Court secretary Miguel Ambrosio told The Associated Press that his testimony largely matched the account he gave local media.
Lifschitz could be important to Argentina's long-stymied effort to seek justice in the bombing of the Argentine Israeli Mutual Association building, which prosecutors believe was orchestrated by Iranian officials.
As a chief aide to Juan Jose Galeano, the investigative judge first named to probe the bombing, Lifschitz had access to inside information. Six years after the attack, it was Lifschitz who blew the whistle, accusing his boss of suppressing evidence under pressure from other top officials.
He alleged, among other things, that SIDE* agents had caught Iranians in Argentina on wiretaps before and after the bombing, and that the recordings had disappeared.
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,508919,00.html****
*SIDE is apparently an intelligence-agency acronym.
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