JohnJ:

You are crafty, but not quite slick enough.

You neglect to mention that both articles cited by you were published long before the indictments were handed down by Argentine prosecutor Nisman in late 2006. How convenient.

Investigations of this sort are ongoing processes. The BBC piece ran in November 2003 and the Jamestown piece in late 2005. Thus neither article could conceivably reflect the additional evidence presented many months later that convinced the independent Argentine judiciary to grant the prosecution's request for arrest warrants.

I wonder who are these anonymous "observers" who Chris Zambelis cites in his Jamestown article. I have no way of knowing, nor do you. All we have is Zambelis' unsupported word for it. And that's a pretty thin reed upon which to predicate a rebuttal.

Crafty, you say, Ted?

You complain that the articles I referred to were written in 2003 and late 2005 and that "neither article could conceivably reflect the additional evidence presented many months later", in November 2006. This perhaps is meant to suggest that a smooth well-oiled police operation was painstakingly compiling evidence in the interim. The actual situation, as you should be aware, was that the Argentine court case against 20 Argentinians collapsed in a heap in September 2004. The court dismissed all charges and found that "most, if not everything, in the investigation was a deliberate sham" http://www.ajc.org/site/apps/nl/content3.asp?c=ijITI2PHKoG&b=846739&ct=1043987

I have finally found a link Alberto Nisman's November 2006 petition, which is here http://www.sofir.org/reports/2006-20-11-AMIA.html This is an attempt to have Interpol's 2005 cancellation of the Argentinian arrest warrants reversed. Interpol's original decision is documented here http://www.interpol.int/Public/ICPO/PressReleases/PR2005/PR200541.asp For what it's worth, I can't see anything in the petition that wasn't already canvassed in the failed Argentinian trial.

This article http://www.forward.com/articles/us-urges-argentina-to-indict-iranians/ suggests that "as part of their campaign to isolate Iran, Congress and the Bush administration are pressing Argentine officials and prosecutors to issue a new indictment against Tehran’s Islamic regime for the 1994 bombing of the Jewish communal center in Buenos Aires." Certainly US authorities seem keen to have this matter pursued, hopeless as the case looks, perhaps aiming simply to discredit Iran.

The irony is that the only people ever likely to be prosecuted are the corrupt Argentinian officials who bungled the investigation. The real culprits (Iranian or otherwise) are never likely to be punished.

You still haven't substantiated your claims about smuggled TNT.