Jewish centre bombing: Argentine prosecutor Nisman found dead
Source: BBC
An Argentine federal prosecutor who accused President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner last week of a cover-up has been found dead at his home in the capital, Buenos Aires.
Alberto Nisman was investigating the 1994 bombing of a Jewish centre in Buenos Aires in which 85 people died.
On Wednesday, he accused the president of involvement in a plot to cover up Iran's alleged role in the bombing.
The president's spokesman dismissed the allegations as "ridiculous".
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-30877296
navarth
(5,927 posts)starroute
(12,977 posts)Among other things, it links Gareth Porter's 2013 article suggesting that the supposed Iranian link came out of information supplied by the sometimes-terrorist cult MEK, which has been responsible for feeding so much misinformation about Iran to the West.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMIA_bombing
http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/08/indictment-of-iran-for-94-terror-bombing-relied-on-mek/
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,588 posts)Officials: No sign of others in Argentine prosecutor death
Published on NewsOK Modified: January 19, 2015 at 3:20 pm Published: January 19, 2015
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) A prosecutor who had accused President Cristina Fernandez of shielding Iranian suspects in the nation's deadliest terror attack was found dead of a gunshot wound in his apartment, but prosecutors said Monday there was no indication that anybody else was involved in the death.
Alberto Nisman was found in the bathroom of his Buenos Aires apartment late Sunday, hours before he was to testify in a Congressional hearing about the 1994 bombing of the country's largest Jewish center.
Investigating prosecutor Viviana Fein said the autopsy found "no intervention" of others in Nisman's death.
The death came only five days after Nisman accused Fernandez and other officials of reaching a deal with Iran that shielded some officials from possible punishment for the attack that killed 85 people and wounded more than 200.
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Judi Lynn
(160,588 posts)It was only in 2012 people were reading this news:
Carlos Menem to stand trial over Jewish center bombing
Former Argentinian president to face trial for obstruction of justice in a probe of the 1994 attack in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people, injured 300
AFP
Published: 03.31.12, 10:20 / Israel News
Former Argentine president Carlos Menem was ordered Friday to stand trial for obstruction of justice in a probe of the 1994 bombing of a building housing a Jewish center that killed 85 people. Justice officials said Judge Ariel Lijo ordered the trial for Menem, president 1989-1999, and former judge Juan Jose Galeano, who was in charge of the investigation for 10 years but was dismissed from the case in 2004.
Some 300 people were wounded in the attack that leveled the seven-floor Argentine Jewish Mutual Association (AMIA) building in Buenos Aires. No one has ever been convicted in the bombing.
Menem, 81, was initially charged in 2009 with concealing and tampering with evidence and abusing authority to cover up what was then called a "Syrian connection."
Argentine prosecutors allege that Tehran planned and financed the car bombing, which was carried out by a cell from the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. Prosecutors now say there is evidence that Argentine state intelligence services and security forces covered up and erased tracks for local accomplices of the attackers during the Menem administration.
Officials previously said Menem, who was born in Argentina to Syrian immigrants, and his former staff stole evidence to hide the involvement of Syrian-Argentine businessman Alberto Kanoore Edul in the bombing, and destroyed evidence that would have incriminated him.
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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7340,L-4210357,00.html
ellisonz
(27,711 posts)DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)to regain her cred.
Behind the Aegis
(53,967 posts)Cui bono?!