Argentine judicial officials made public the 300-page criminal complaint that details evidence linking Argentina’s senior political echelon to a deal to hide Iran’s role in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires. The complaint prepared by Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman was to be presented this week to Argentina’s congress, but Nisman…
(Reuters) — The death of a prosecutor investigating the bombing of a Jewish community center was not a suicide, as was initially reported, Argentine President Cristina Fernandez said on Thursday. Alberto Nisman, lead investigator into the 1994 attack on the AMIA Jewish center that killed 85 people, was found dead in his apartment late Sunday,…
(Reuters) — A prosecutor who accused Argentina’s president of trying to derail the investigation into a 1994 bombing, and who died in mysterious circumstances on Sunday, was misled to believe there was a conspiracy to whitewash the crime, the government said on Wednesday. State prosecutor Alberto Nisman, the lead investigator into the 1994 car bomb…
Banging pots and pans, thousands of angry protesters, including many Jews, descended on the Plaza de Mayo square in front of Argentina’s presidential palace on January 19. With signs reading, “Yo Soy Nisman” (I Am Nisman), they came to mourn Alberto Nisman, a Jewish prosecutor whose sudden and mysterious death a day earlier was officially…
Rabbi Abraham Skorka chats with Pope Francis during their visit to Holy Land last year. /Getty Images (JTA) — Rabbi Abraham Skorka traveled from Buenos Aires to Washington to wax lyrical about his passion – interfaith dialogue – and intimate about his well-known pal, Pope Francis. Also to plug his movement, the Masorti movement, and its…
(Reuters) — The mysterious death of an Argentine prosecutor just days after he accused the president of directing a cover-up in the terror bombing of a Jewish community center two decades earlier has jolted the country with accusations of foul play coming from all sides. The body of Alberto Nisman, lead investigator into the 1994…
It’s undoubtedly just coincidence. Then again, once you enter the shadowy world of international skullduggery, few things are coincidence and nothing is what it seems. So let’s just look at the known facts in these two simultaneously unfolding stories and see if we can’t spot any points of intersection. It’s probably all just coincidence. Consider…
Thousands of people rallied Monday night to protest the mysterious death of a prosecutor who accused Argentina’s president of orchestrating a cover-up in the investigation of Iran over the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center. “The executive power is consolidating its dictatorship,” said protester Luciano Florio, a student at the Marshall Meyer rabbinical school…
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