Argentina Increases Border Security Following Tip of Bomb Plot Against Jewish Target
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by JNS.org
The aftermath of the bombing of the AMIA building in Buenos Aires on July 18, 1994. Photo: File.
JNS.org – Argentina announced on Saturday that it is going to tighten security at its border with Paraguay after its embassy in Britain received an anonymous tip about a person possibly smuggling bomb-making materials into the country through that border.
The tip warned about the transfer of ammonium nitrate “for a bomb with a Jewish objective,” the Argentinean Security Ministry said in a statement reported by Reuters.
Security authorities are investigating the individual mentioned in the tip.
In 1992, the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires was attacked with a car bomb, killing 29 people; in 1994, a truck bomb blew up the AMIA Jewish community center there, killing 85.
Iran and its proxy Hezbollah were implicated in these attacks, and Hezbollah has used Paraguay as a base for its illicit financial operations.
