Attack on the embassy of Israel in London
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In the Israeli Embassy Attack in London — which took place on July 26, 1994, eight days after the AMIA Bombing in Argentina — a car bomb exploded outside the Israeli embassy in London, injuring 20 people. The car was packed with 20 to 30 pounds of explosives, and blew up minutes after the driver left it.
The Israeli Ambassador and British intelligence experts blamed pro-Iranian extremists, allegedly linked to Hezbollah. Thirteen hours later a similar car bomb exploded outside Balfour House, the headquarters in London of the main Zionist organisations, injuring six.
Five Palestinians were arrested in London in January 1995 in connection with both bombings. In December 1996, two of them, both Palestinian science graduates who were educated in the UK, Jawad Botmeh and Samar Alami, were found guilty of "conspiracy to cause explosions" at the Old Bailey. They were sentenced to 20 years in jail, and lost their appeal in 2001. Nobody has been convicted for the actual bombings.
Jawad Botmeh was released from prison on 5 August 2008.
In an interview published in April 2009 on conspiracy theory website 911blogger.com, a former MI5 agent Annie Machon makes an unsubstantiated claim that Mossad carried out the bombing of the Israeli embassy in London and 1994 AMIA bombing as a False flag attack. [1]
[edit] External links
- Israel's London embassy bombed - Report on the incident by the BBC
- Freedom and Justice for Samar and Jawad campaign site
Coordinates: 51°30′10″N 0°11′21″W / 51.5029°N 0.1891°W
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