Argentina orders 8 Iranians arrested for 1994 bomb...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Aug 13 (Reuters) - An Argentine judge on Wednesday ordered the arrest of eight Iranian officials implicated in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center that killed 85 people, court documents said.

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Last year The New York Times reported that Iran paid Argentina's then-President Carlos Menem a $10 million bribe to cover up the Iranian role in the bombing. Menem and Iran denied the allegation.

Menem's government at first blamed Iranian-backed Muslim extremists from the Lebanese group Hizbollah for the bombing. But the Iran lead got lost in a slow investigation plagued by disappearing witnesses and unexplained delays.

In June, newly elected President Nestor Kirchner ordered the release of secret files of the intelligence services related to the bombing, which was hailed as a breakthrough in the case.

Argentina's 300,000-strong Jewish community is the biggest in Latin America and the seventh largest in the world. Two years before the AMIA attack, the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires was bombed, killing 29 people.


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