New judge eyes Fernandez in 1994 AMIA bombing cover-up
Former Argentina President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner may not be off the hook in the investigation into whether she helped cover up the involvement of Iranian officials in a 1994 bombing. A new judge wants the case.
A judge is considering restarting the investigation into an alleged cover-up over the 1994 bombing of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association, news agencies reported Tuesday. In January 2015, prosecutor Alberto Nisman was found dead with a bullet in his head in his home shortly after announcing his accusations against Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner - who was still the president at the time - and just before he could present evidence in Congress.
It has been 26 years since the bloody attack on the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association in Buenos Aires which left 85 people dead. So far, nobody has been convicted of the truck bombing but that could soon change.
Car dealer Carlos Telleldin certainly doesn’t have a stellar reputation. He is suspected of having been involved in trafficking women, forging dollar bills, theft and smuggling cars. Worse still, vehicle registration documents show he owned the van used to bomb the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) building in Buenos Aires on July 18, 1994, which left 85 people dead and more than 300 injured.
Two years later, Telleldin already serving jail time at this point told an Argentine court he had sold said van to a group of police officers from Buenos Aires province. Four former officers were subsequently arrested and tried alongside Telleldin in 2001.
Hezbollah and Palestinian flags are seen in the southern Lebanese village of Houla, near the border with Israel, Aug. 26, 2020. Photo: Reuters / Aziz Taher.
The small Central American nation of Guatemala does not usually come to mind when thinking about Lebanese Hezbollah’s operations deep in the heart of South America. So surprise should have been expected when the government of Guatemala, in October, suddenly designated the Iranian-backed Shiite paramilitary group, and all of its branches, as a terrorist organization.
Guatemala’s designation follows one by Honduras in January and three other Latin America nations – Argentina, Paraguay, and Colombia – in 2019. The designations theoretically subject Hezbollah and anyone caught supporting it to surveillance, asset seizures, arrest, and prosecution in coordination with American intelligence and law enforcement agencies.
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