Ex-Argentinian presidential aide blames Israel's Shin Bet for AMIA blast

An advisor to the former Argentinean president disclosed that Israel's internal spy agency, Shin Bet, was responsible for the 1994 bombing of the AMIA center in Buenos Aires, the Iranian Fars News Agency reported on Saturday.
"The AMIA blast was aimed at discouraging the former Israeli president from signing a peace treaty with the Palestinians and Shin Bet was behind repeated explosions and finally the AMIA blast," Fars quoted Juan Gabriel Labake, the adviser to the former Argentinean president (1990-1992) as saying.
The AMIA blast was an intelligence operation fulfilled under the impact of internal conflicts in Israel over the endorsement or non-endorsement of the peace treaty with the Palestinians, he added.
Asked about the reason for choosing Argentina for the operations, Labake said Argentina was a country with a weak government and its media were under the influence of the Israeli lobbies and, therefore, Shin Bet could easily materialize its goals in the country.
He also pointed to the report of AMIA's special prosecutor Alberto Nisman, and said some parts of the report were exactly copied from the CIA report on the incident.
Elsewhere, he revealed that the US and Israel are attempting to weaken Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner as they benefit from a weak government in the Latin American state most.
Argentina had formally accused Iran of having carried out the bomb attack of the AMIA building in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people in 1994. Tehran has categorically denied any involvement in the terrorist bombing.