Hizbullah denies Argentina bomb... Independent investigators are skeptical of the accusation

source: BBC, 11-11-2005.
summary: Islamic group Hizbullah has denied that one of its members was the bomber who attacked a Jewish community centre in Argentina in 1994.
An Argentine prosecutor said Ibrahim Hussein Berro of Lebanon had been identified in a joint effort by Argentine intelligence and the FBI.‏‏
But Hizbullah said that he had died in southern Lebanon while fighting "Israel".‏‏
Argentina`s Jewish community has for years sought a resolution to the attack in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people.‏‏
Hizbullah described the accusations as "categorically false".‏‏
"The martyr Ibrahim Hussein Berro was among the resistance fighters who were martyred [killed] during a confrontation between the Islamic Resistance [Hizbullah] and the "Israeli" occupation forces in southern Lebanon," it said in a statement.‏‏
Sceptical of claims‏‏
The car bomb at the Jewish Argentine Mutual Association (AMIA) was one of two attacks targeting Argentina`s 200,000-strong Jewish community in the 1990s.‏‏
Argentine, US and "Israeli" officials have all said that Iran is to blame - a charge Tehran denies.‏‏
Independent investigators are skeptical, correspondents say.‏‏
They point to repeated incompetence and deception in the official investigation, in which no proper autopsies or DNA tests were done on human remains at the site.‏‏
Members of Argentina`s Jewish community have repeatedly accused the government of the former president, Carlos Menem, of obstructing the inquiry, which it denies.‏‏
In July 2005, President Nestor Kirchner`s government issued a decree formally accepting a share of the blame for the failure of investigations into the AMIA attack.‏‏