mentalist Hezbollah movement
claimed credit for the attack in
Argentina, which destroyed the
Jewish community's central
headquarters and killed close to
100 people.
Hezbollah is backed by Iran,
but its operations in Lebanon
take place under the noses, and
with the implicit approval, of Syr-
ia.
Mr. Pipes speculated that re-
sponsibility for the bombings is
more likely Iranian than Syrian,
"given the non-strategic nature
of these targets and given the fact
that it in no way enhances the
bargaining positions of the anti-
Israel forces."
Other analysts downplayed
the importance of the peace talks
as a motivating factor.
Steven Emerson, a journalist
and expert on Middle East ter-
rorism, said "the tentative con-
• elusion" is that the attack in
Argentina "was an Iranian
Hezbollah retaliation."
In May, Israel kidnapped
Hezbollah leader Mustafa Dirani
from Lebanon. Attacks between
Hezbollah and Israel in southern
Lebanon have been heavy in re-
cent months. In June, Israel raid-
ed an Hezbollah training base
killing some 50 terrorists.
"Hezbollah has a worldwide in-
frastructure from Lebanon to
Germany to France to the U.S.,"
Mr. Emerson said.
"The issue isn't infrastructure,
but whether it is mobilized to car-
ry out attacks," he said. "The
question is at what point they're
prevailed upon to use it."
Mr. Emerson compared the
current situation to that of the
1970s, when "there were inter-
national attacks, primarily Pales-
tinian in origin, directed against
Western and Israeli and Jewish
institutions.
"What is happening now is
simply a reignition of the terror-
ist war with new perpetrators
and no geographical limits," he
said.
Instead of Palestinian groups
waging the war, he said, "now
we're entering the period of the
radical Islamic fundamentalists'
war against the West."
The most spectacular Ameri-
can manifestation of the war
against the West was the bomb-
ing of the World Trade Center in
New York last year.
There were reports linking one
of the escaped masterminds of
that attack to an aborted plot to
blow up the Israeli Embassy in
Bangkok in March.
That plot reportedly was foiled
by accident when the driver of a
truck carrying the explosives col-
lided with a motorcycle, and the
would-be suicide bomber fled.
Those explosives were report-
edly of the same type used to de-
molish the Israeli Embassy in
Buenos Aires in 1992. The recent
blast is also reported to have used
similar explosions.

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