Sydney, Australia – A 30-year-old unsolved case involving the bombing of two Jewish targets in Australia is getting a second look in the hopes that new technologies will help identify the people responsible for these heinous acts.
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According to the Sydney Morning Herald (http://bit.ly/Nv6fDg), Australian counterterrorism officials have launched a new investigation – code-named Operation Forbearance – into the December 1982 bombing of the Israeli Consulate in Sydney which injured two people, and into the bombing of the Jewish Hakoah Club in Bondi, which caused considerable damage to the building where the club was located. Miraculously, no one was seriously injured in the Club bombing because the device, planted in an old car parked in the Club parking lot, failed to properly explode.
Detectives are now interrogating Mohammed Rashed, 65, a convicted terrorist, who is serving a prison sentence in the United States for his role in the August 1982 bombing of Pan Am flight 830.
The United States Justice Department has identified Rashed as a member of the “May 15” terrorist organization which specifically targets United States and Israeli sites. Rashed is believed to have participated in the plot to blow up the Israeli Consulate in Sydney, as well as the Club. Since Rashed’s conviction, he has been become an informant for the United States on terrorist-related cases.
Yair Miller, the president of the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies said, “We welcome the fact that new evidence seems to have come to light that might help solve this case.” But thus far, Operation Forbearance officials have not shared their new findings, and have only said that “positive lines of inquiry” are being aggressively pursued.
They should never have closed it!!