Argentine prosecutor who accused Cristina Kirchner over 1994 bombings found dead

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UK Telegraph:

An Argentine prosecutor who accused President Cristina Kirchner of covering up Iran’s involvement in the country’s worst ever terrorist attack has been found dead, hours before he was due to present his evidence in parliament.

Alberto Nisman, 51, had spent the past decade investigating the 1994 bombings of a Buenos Aires Jewish centre, which killed 85 people.

Two years ago he began working on a 300-page dossier – due to be presented to a parliamentary committee on Monday afternoon – which used extensive wiretaps to unravel the mystery of the attack at the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association building (AMIA), for which no one has ever been convicted.

He knew that the revelations in his dossier were going to cause a huge outcry. The stridently anti-Kirchner newspaper Clarin said that he had told one of their reporters on Wednesday: “I could be dead by the end of this.”

Iran has long been suspected as being behind the bombings, and last week Mr Nisman accused Ms Kirchner and several of her governmental colleagues of whitewashing Iranian involvement, in order to secure much-needed oil deliveries.

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Nothing to see here...

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Shot with 22 pistol, laying by his side. Clear cut suicide...ha.

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Shot with 22 pistol, laying by his side. Clear cut suicide...ha.

 

 

Who killed Alberto Nisman?

Scott Johnson

January 20, 2015

 

Circumstantial evidence suggests that Alberto Nisman committed suicide at his Buenos Aires apartment on Sunday. Within Argentina, however, this circumstantial evidence has been treated with substantial skepticism. The New York Times conveys the suspicions in an article by Jonathan Gilbert and Simon Romero: “Puzzling death of a prosecutor grips Argentina.”

 

Christopher Dickey’s Daily Beast article puts Nisman’s death in the context of the ongoing war between Israel and Iran. Next to the Times article, Dickey’s is a mediocre piece of work. Tom Joscelyn is the man to read on this aspect of the affair; Joscelyn’s Weekly Standard dispatch is here.

 

The AP article on Nisman’s death provides a good summary of the circumstantial evidence in “Officials: Argentine prosecutor died in locked apartment.” The AP reports:

 

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