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The present and previous presidents of Argentina have both stood up at the UN General Assembly and politely requested that the government of Iran extradite the AMIA massacre suspects it is sheltering.
Archive for the 'AMIA massacre' Category
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Readers with good memories will recall the appointment of Jorge Palacios, a disgraced former Federal Police officer to head the city of Buenos Aires’s first autonomous police force. To put it mildly, it wasn’t an idea that prospered. Palacios was obliged to resign when indicted on charges of being involved in the cover up of the AMIA massacre and is now in prison while being investigated on charges of organizing illegal wiretaps. Among those who had their phone conversations illicitly listened in on was Sergio Burstein, a well known campaigner for justice for the families of the survivors of the AMIA attack.
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A small step towards justice in the AMIA case was taken yesterday when the Cámara Nacional de Casación Penal (Argentina’s final criminal appeal court) ordered that Carlos Telleldín be retried on charges relating to his role in the preparation of the AMIA massacre. The decision arises from a previous Supreme Court decision which held that the early findings of the initial investigation into the atrocity are legally valid.
We’re no nearer to seeing any of the Iranian suspects wanted for the AMIA massacre in custody but some progress is being made towards making some of the Argentines responsible for obstructing the original investigation answer for their actions.
In her address to the General Assembly of the United Nations yesterday, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner performed the annual ritual of asking Iran to extradite to Argentina a number of its citizens wanted in connection with the 1994 AMIA massacre in Buenos Aires. She did the same last year and her predecessor Néstor Kirchner did likewise in 2007.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has just appointed Ahmad Vahidi as Iran’s new defense minister. He is one of the Iranians being sought by the Argentine authorities on suspicion of involvement in the 1994 AMIA massacre in Buenos Aires and he is the subject an Interpol Red Notice, for all practical purposes an international arrest warrant.
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Fifteen years ago today a truck bomb destroyed the headquarters of the AMIA Jewish community organization in Buenos Aires. 85 people were killed and hundreds injured.
Continue reading ‘AMIA: 15 Years of State-sponsored Cover-ups and Impunity’
Argentina’s Supreme Court yesterday upheld the verdict of a lower court that held that the initial investigation into the AMIA atrocity had been fatally flawed by the actions of the investigating judge, the state prosecutors and the government of Carlos Menem, all of whom had conspired together to pervert its course.
Ariel Lifschitz, a man who did much to bring crimes and irregularities at the heart of the initial investigation into the AMIA attack to light, was last night briefly kidnapped by armed men in the city of Buenos Aires. Lifschitz’s captors identified themselves as members of the SIDE, the Argentine state intelligence service, and before they abandoned their victim on waste ground on the edge of the city they tortured him with knives and a blow torch. He had the letters “AMIA” carved into his back and one account of what happened mentions a series of numbers being carved into his arm.
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Just a note to signal a further small development in the case of the AMIA massacre, a bomb attack on a Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires which cost 85 people their lives on July 18, 1994.
Continue reading ‘More Assets Freezes for AMIA Case Fugitive’
Back in October I wrote about state prosecutor Albert Nisman seeking an order to freeze the Argentine assets of Hezbollah and the Iranian fugitives suspected of responsibility for the AMIA massacre, a bomb attack on a Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires which cost 85 people their lives on July 18th, 1994.
The appointment of Rahm Emanuel as Barack Obama’s Chief of Staff hasn’t taken long to bring the creepy crawlies of racial hatred out from under the nearest rock. An Argentine national newspaper has today headlined a piece about him with the words “The ‘Jewish Rahmbo’ brings more war.”
