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Dirty War (Argentina, 1976-83) (view source)
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According to France's intelligence service [[Deuxième Bureau]], the explosives technology utilized in these attacks would allow the 1983 Beirut barracks bombings to take place that would result in the deaths of 299 US and French peacekeepers in Lebanon.<ref>''"And according to France's intelligence service Deuxième Bureau, the 1983 bombing in Beirut that killed 299 U.S. and French servicemen was carried out with the explosives technology developed by the Montoneros."'' The War of All the People: The Nexus of Latin American Radicalism and Middle Eastern Terrorism, Jon B. Perdue, Potomac Books, Inc, 2012</ref>
According to France's intelligence service [[Deuxième Bureau]], the explosives technology utilized in these attacks would allow the 1983 Beirut barracks bombings to take place that would result in the deaths of 299 US and French peacekeepers in Lebanon.<ref>''"And according to France's intelligence service Deuxième Bureau, the 1983 bombing in Beirut that killed 299 U.S. and French servicemen was carried out with the explosives technology developed by the Montoneros."'' The War of All the People: The Nexus of Latin American Radicalism and Middle Eastern Terrorism, Jon B. Perdue, Potomac Books, Inc, 2012</ref>
===Church involvement===
Some Catholic priests sympathized with and helped the Montoneros. Radical priests, including Father Alberto Carbone, who was eventually indicted in the murder of Aramburu, preached Marxism and presented the early Church fathers as model revolutionaries in an attempt to legitimise the violence.<ref>Argentina: What Went Wrong, Colin M. MacLachlan, p. 136, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006</ref>A Catholic youth leader, Juan Ignacio Isla Casares, with the help of the Montoneros commander Eduardo Pereira Rossi (nom de guerre "El Carlón") was the mastermind behind the ambush and killing of five policemen near San Isidro Cathedral on 26 October 1975.
Mario Firmenich, who later became the leader of the Montoneros, was the ex-president of the Catholic Action Youth Group and a former seminarian himself. The Montoneros had ties with the Third World Priest Movement and a Jesuit priest, Father Carlos Mugica, SJ. The Third World Priest Movement believed that the Church could not remain neutral in the conflict between the Peronist and anti-Peronists and a number of priests participated in the armed struggle
==Rural guerrilla warfare==
==Rural guerrilla warfare==