Tag: AMIA Jewish Center

• Thursday, October 8th 2015 - 08:37 UTC

  Argentine Jewish community asks Washington to reveal whereabouts of former spymaster

  

  The Argentine Jewish community has requested that the United States reveal the whereabouts of their country’s former spymaster – who reportedly fled to Miami in February following the shooting death of a prosecutor investigating the 1994 car bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people and injured hundreds.

• Wednesday, September 30th 2015 - 06:54 UTC

  Argentina furious with Washington over top-spy 'hiding' in the US

  

  Argentina and the US are on collision course following president Cristina Fernandez complaint of lack of cooperation from Washington, in helping locate a former Argentine spy, head of special operations, who apparently is hiding 'or being protected' in the US, and has been summoned by prosecutors in Buenos Aires.

• Tuesday, September 29th 2015 - 05:17 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez points her guns to the US and 'vulture funds', but no word on the Falklands

  

  Addressing the UN General Assembly, President Cristina Fernandez accused the United States of 'protecting' a former Argentine intelligence agent, blasted the speculative or 'vulture funds', gave details of the Iran-US-Argentina dealings and to everybody's surprise did not mention a word about the Falkland Islands sovereignty claim.

• Friday, August 7th 2015 - 07:38 UTC

  Argentina's worst terrorist (AMIA, 1994) attack trial takes off

  

  Argentina's Cabinet Chief Anibal Fernández hoped the AMIA cover-up trial that began on Thursday in Buenos Aires enables to find a “hint on the local connection” that paved the way for Argentina’s worst terrorist attack to take place 21 years ago.

• Thursday, July 30th 2015 - 07:23 UTC

  Argentina asks if Iran nuke-deal includes delisting Iranian wanted in major bomb attack in Buenos Aires

  

  Argentina's foreign minister is asking U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and European Union Foreign Affairs representative, Federica Mogherini to clarify whether Washington's nuclear deal with Iran includes removing from Interpol's list an Iranian wanted in a major bomb attack in Buenos Aires that took place in 1994 and remains unsolved.

• Saturday, July 18th 2015 - 08:48 UTC

  Judge removal from Cristina Fernandez case triggers more suspicions

  

  “If they say I committed suicide, look for the murderer. It's not my style, investigate”, said ironically Argentine judge Claudio Bonadio when he was asked how he felt after having been removed from the case looking into alleged money laundering and tax elusion in one of Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner family businesses in the hotel industry, Hotesur.

• Saturday, July 18th 2015 - 08:29 UTC

  Jewish Congress criticizes “lack of progress” in investigation of 1994 AMIA bombing

  

  World Jewish Congress (WJC) CEO Robert Singer criticized on Friday “a lack of progress” in the investigation of the 1994 AMIA bombing, during the twenty first commemorations of the attack on the local Jewish community headquarters in downtown Buenos Aires.

• Thursday, May 21st 2015 - 06:56 UTC

  Iranian officers' interviews, allegedly linked to AMIA bombing, attract world media attention

  

  The interviews with former Iranian officials accused of the 1994 AMIA bombing of a Jewish organization in downtown Buenos Aires aired this week by Argentine news channel C5N were covered by a number of international media outlets.

• Wednesday, May 20th 2015 - 04:31 UTC

  Former Iranian officials deny any involvement in the 1994 AMIA attack in Buenos Aires

  

  Former Iranian foreign minister Alí Akbar Velayati accused Argentina of being under the influence of Zionism and the United States over the investigation into the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires which killed 85 and injured 300 and is considered the worst terrorist attack suffered by the country.

• Wednesday, May 13th 2015 - 07:37 UTC

  Nisman's criminal case against President Cristina Fernandez was buried on Tuesday

  

  The criminal case against President Cristina Fernandez was closed Tuesday when federal judges from Cassation Court accepted a prosecutor’s decision not to pursue accusations that she had conspired to shield Iranians suspected of planning the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires.