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Death of a ProsecutorPosted By Kenneth R. Timmerman On January 21, 2015 @ 12:35 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage | 2 Comments Alberto Nisman, the Argentinean prosecutor who indicted top Iranian regime officials for the July 1994 AMIA Jewish Center bombing in Buenos Aires, was found dead by gunshot in his apartment on Sunday night, in what initially was called a suicide.Nisman was scheduled to address members of parliament the next day to reveal new information about alleged efforts by Argentinean President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and her foreign minister, Hector Timerman, to cover up the responsibility of the Iranian regime...

Swiss have agreed to help probe cover-up charges Investigators freeze bank accounts in search for possible Iranian role in attack on Buenos Aires Jewish center In a move that could finally shed some light on the unsolved 1994 car bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires blamed on Lebanese fugitive Imad Mughniyeh, Swiss authorities have agreed to help Argentina investigate allegations that then-President Carlos Menem was paid $10 million to cover up an alleged Iranian role in the attack, which killed 85 people. In a case that has become more bizarre and convoluted at every turn over the last...

<p>GENEVA - (AP) -- Switzerland has asked Argentina for details of allegations that former President Carlos Menem took $10 million to cover up Iran's purported role in the deadly bombing of a Jewish center and stashed the funds in Swiss banks, a Justice Ministry official said Tuesday.</p> <p>Ministry spokesman Folco Galli said Swiss justice authorities had asked their Argentine counterparts to provide more information as part of a request for legal assistance Argentina sent in December.</p>

BUENOS AIRES, July 21 — The Iranian government organized and carried out the bombing of a Jewish community center here eight years ago that killed 85 people and then paid Argentina's president at the time, Carlos Saúl Menem, $10 million to cover it up, a witness in the case has said in sealed testimony. A 100-page transcript of a secret deposition, provided to The New York Times by Argentine officials frustrated that the case remains unsolved, supports long-held suspicions of Iranian involvement and adds to the questions surrounding the conduct of an inquiry that has been rife with irregularities from...