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Buenos Aires Herald ^ | February 23, 2006 | Herald staff

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Photo courtesy of Kurt Sonnenfeld A fireman works amid the debris of Ground Zero just hours after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack that razed the Twin Towers in New York, as pictured by US citizen Kurt Sonnenfeld, who claims to be the only videographer given full access by the US government to record rescue works. An exhibit of 28 Ground Zero pictures taken by Sonnenfeld and never shown before opened yesterday for about a month at La Bohéme Salón gallery in Pasaje Rodolfo Rivarola 196, in Buenos Aires. The United States has requested that Argentina extradite Sonnenfeld on charges that in 2002 he killed his first wife and the case is in the hands of Argentina’s Supreme Court of Justice. Sonnenfeld, 43, claims that she took her own life. He was detained for several months in Denver, Colorado, and one day before a trial was due to start a judge dismissed the charges and he was released in June 2002. He publicly accused US police of torturing and persecuting him. pretenses.” (Herald staff)

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The pictures he is now exhibiting came to Buenos Aires in a make-up box, hidden in his furniture.

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Are you in BA?

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The rest of the article says that he married an Argentine woman while on vacation. The pictures he is showing were sneaked in to Buenos Aires in a make-up box, he hid in his furniture. He was asked by the Herald in an last October if he thought that his alleged persecution was linked to his work as a videographer. He said, “The US authorities are trying to extradite me under false pretenses.”
I'm not in Argentina but have been following the story for quite a while...

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Interesting. This is the first I have heard of the story..

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Do a search on the web for "Kurt Sonnenfeld"