Suleiman's Visit to Argentina Called off over 1994 Attack in Buenos Aires
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
President Michel Suleiman's expected visit to South America over the weekend will not include Argentina over a terrorist attack allegedly carried out by Hizbullah in Buenos Aires, media reports said on Thursday.
Sources told al-Liwaa newspaper that Suleiman's visit to Argentina was canceled because of the pressure exerted by the Israeli lobby in Buenos Aires over accusations that Hizbullah carried out the attack on a Jewish association in Argentina's capital in 1994.
The daily said that Suleiman's tour will include only Peru and Uruguay, where he is set to meet with senior officials and Lebanese expatriates.
Argentine prosecutors allege that the attack was planned and financed in Iran and carried out by a Hizbullah cell.
Argentina has South America's largest Jewish community, about 300,000.
In the attack on July 18, 1994 a van loaded with explosives exploded outside the Israeli-Argentine Mutual Aid Association.
Besides the fatalities, 85 people were killed and more than 300 were injured in the country's worst terrorist attack. The six-story building that housed the association was leveled.
27 September 2012, 11:44
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thanks thanks thanks hezbollah..
we thank you so much................
NOT
27 September 2012, 11:46
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He is right. Zionist lobby is trying to do with this episode the same as they are doing with the Holocaust: getting the fault even to those that were not born at the time.
27 September 2012, 12:38
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The Christians who number 10 times of those Jews should have over ridden the Jewish lobby by ten fold.
The President of Lebanon has nothing to do with militias...
27 September 2012, 12:38
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The Christians who number 10 times of those Jews should have over ridden the Jewish lobby by ten fold.
The President of Lebanon has nothing to do with militias...
27 September 2012, 12:55
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Our President has decided to tour the world in 6 years?
Nice job...
27 September 2012, 15:09
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Besides the fatalities, 85 people were killed
Learn some ENGLISH
27 September 2012, 15:39
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This is a big insult by ARGENTINA. Their ambassador should be called for clarification. Lebanon should recall their ambassador from B. Aires as a protest..Suleiman must cancel the whole trip, as the expenses of such a trip does not justify visiting 2 minor countries so far away. He can combine them with a trip to Brazil.
27 September 2012, 15:46
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So then how should we expect the pres to continue removing the zeer from the beer without the essential stop in Argentine? HOW?
28 September 2012, 00:38
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The lebanese Embassy in Argentina announces that all such news are not true and the President of Lebanon is mostly welcomed to Argentina and is supposed to arrive next Tuesday as scedualed . The president has a very extensive agenda including a top meeting with the President of Argentina Dr. Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner
