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Argentina President Trashes ‘Illogical’ Alberto Nisman Complaint on Terror Cover-Up

Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner published an advertisement in eight major newspapers discrediting AMIA special prosecutor Alberto Nisman’s allegations against the government. The advertisement published Wednesday says the complaint prepared by Nisman, who was found dead in his Buenos Aires apartment Jan. 18, is “filled with contradictions, illogical, with no legal basis.” Headlined “Commitment,…

By JTA Mar 4, 2015 | < 1 min read
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Argentina Warned To Keep Investigating Terror Bombings Aimed at Jews

Israel told Argentina’s president that her country is responsible for investigating a 1992 attack on its embassy in Buenos Aires. The statement from Israel’s embassy in the Argentine capital came in response to an accusation made earlier in the week by Argentina’s President Christina Fernandez de Kirchner, who rebuked Israel for not working to bring…

By JTA Mar 4, 2015 | 2 min read
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Argentina President Says Nisman’s Letters Contradict His Allegations

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner of Argentina said documents found in the safe of the late AMIA prosecutor Alberto Nisman contradicted his own allegations that she had covered up Iran’s role in the 1984 Jewish center attack. Kirchner in a nearly four-hour televised address Sunday at the opening of a…

By JTA Mar 2, 2015 | 2 min read
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Argentina Judge Says No Evidence of Iran Cover-Up

(Reuters) — There is no evidence that President Cristina Fernandez tried to whitewash Iran’s purported involvement in a deadly 1994 bombing, an Argentine judge told Reuters in an interview on Thursday after dismissing the case. On the contrary, the evidence suggested “the government exhausted all possibilities to enable the investigation into the AMIA (Jewish community center)…

By Nicolás Misculin Feb 27, 2015 | 2 min read
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Argentina President Cristina Fernandez Cleared in Iran Terror Cover-Up

An Argentine judge on Thursday dismissed allegations against President Cristina Fernandez that she tried to cover up Iran’s purported involvement in a deadly bombing of a Jewish center in 1994. The judge ruled he would “discontinue” the case, which was first brought by state prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who was found dead in mysterious circumstances in…

By Reuters Feb 26, 2015 | 2 min read
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Embattled Argentina President Slams Judges Over Alberto Nisman Protest Rally

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez accused the judiciary on Saturday of launching a political battle after state lawyers organized a march to demand justice for a dead prosecutor who had been investigating her. The protest, known as 18F, drew tens of thousands into the streets of Buenos Aires on Wednesday, a month after state prosecutor Alberto…

By Reuters Feb 21, 2015 | 2 min read
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400,000 Argentines Pay Tribute to Alberto Nisman

More than 400,000 people in Buenos Aires braved a heavy rain to pay tribute to the late AMIA special prosecutor Alberto Nisman in a “silent march.” Other marches remembering Nisman on the one-month anniversary of his death were held Wednesday throughout Argentina and in cities throughout the world. The Metropolitan Police in Buenos Aires pegged…

By JTA Feb 19, 2015 | 2 min read
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Thousands March for Justice in Argentina

Tens of thousands of protesters marched peacefully through the Argentine capital on Wednesday demanding an independent judiciary, as the country reels from the death of a state prosecutor who had been investigating the president. The protest, one of the biggest during President Cristina Fernandez’s seven years in power, took place a month after a state…

By Hugh Bronstein and Richard Lough Feb 19, 2015 | 2 min read

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