Tag: Jacobo Timerman

• Monday, December 21st 2015 - 06:32 UTC

  Timerman admits in 2012 recording that Iran 'planted the bombs' at AMIA

  

  Argentine journalist Daniel Santoro on Friday revealed two recordings in which former Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman is heard admitting that Iran “planted the bombs” that demolished the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires in 1994.

• Wednesday, December 26th 2012 - 06:35 UTC

  Life sentence for Argentine civilian minister who worked with the military dictatorship

  

  An Argentine federal court handed down life sentences on Dec. 19 to former Buenos Aires province interior minister Jaime Smart (1976-1979), former Buenos Aires province police investigations director Miguel Osvaldo Etchecolatz and 14 former police and military personnel for genocide and crimes against humanity in the cases of 280 people detained during the 1976-1983 “dirty war” against suspected leftists.