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Argentina ups reward for tips on bombings
December 3, 1996
Web posted at: 9:30 p.m. EST (0230 GMT)BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (CNN) -- In an effort to solve two bombings in the Jewish community in 1992 and 1994, Argentina raised its reward Tuesday for information on the crimes to $3 million.
Interior Minister Carlos Corach announced the 50 percent increase in the Protection Fund Against International Terrorism, and said the money would be paid to whomever helped solve the crimes.
A bombing at the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires in 1994 killed 86 people, injured hundreds more and reduced the building to rubble. Two years earlier, a bomb blast at the Israeli Embassy killed 29 people.
No arrests have been made in the 1992 bombing; in the later bombing, no people directly involved in the bombing have been found. Jews in Argentina, Israel and the United States have criticized Argentinian police for their slow progress.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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