Argentina's Menem charged with obstructing bomb probe (Jewish building)

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Source: AFP


(AFP) – 1 hour ago

BUENOS AIRES — Former president Carlos Menem was charged Thursday with obstructing a probe into the 1994 bombing of a building housing Jewish charities in Argentina that killed 85 people.

Some 300 people were also wounded in the attack that leveled the seven-floor Argentine Jewish Mutual Association (AMIA) building in Buenos Aires. No one has ever been convicted for the bombing.

Federal Judge Ariel Lijo charged Menem, 79, in his investigation of irregularities that took place during the first government inquiry into the July 9, 1994 bombing.

Lijo also charged the ex-president's brother Munir Menem, the former head of intelligence services Hugo Anzorregui and retired judge Juan Jose Galeano, who was in charge of the investigation for 10 years but separated from the case in 2004.


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The wheels of justice are turning under President Cristina Fernandez.

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1. Aren't all the Nazis who fled to Argentina dead by now? Of course, they did have

children, so the tradition can continue.

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3. Not Nazi connection if I recall correctly ...

.. but I remember that inital Aregentine investigation had detected Syrian connection. Then investigation became blurred and today's news reveals why. Btw, Menem is of Syrian ancestry.

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5. Menem was VERY close with Poppy Bush and part of his illegal armsdealing network.

Imagine what would be discovered if the BCCI books were re-opened.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1241&dat=19920706&id=u0APAAAAIBAJ&sjid=N4YDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4410,3708284

[L. Coyote]

2. Hope lives!! in Argentina, at least.

George Bush Sr. May Face Charges: Conspiring to Kidnap and Murder Political Activists
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2459135

Murder has no statute of limitations.

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8. Another gem out of Argentina today

Juan Carlos Colombo, the former governor of Formosa province (northern Argentina) was sentenced to 25 years in prison for crimes against humanity committed from 1976 to 1983 during the military dictatorship. Colombo, who was a general during the dictatorship, is now 84 years old.


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El ex gobernador de Formosa (norte del país) Juan Carlos Colombo fue sentenciado a 25 años de prisión por la justicia de Argentina por los delitos de lesa humanidad cometidos durante la dictadura militar en los años de 1976 y 1983.

Spanish article from Telesur:

http://www.telesurtv.net/noticias/secciones/nota/58738-NN/ex-gobernador-argentino-es-condenado-a-25-anos-por-delitos-de-lesa-humanidad/

[L. Coyote]

10. Excellente!!

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11. Time to shine the light on Poppy Bush's role in these global crime networks.

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[bemildred]

4. This does not say what he is alleged to have done. nt

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6. Carlos Menem and his brother Munir

and the others are accused of interfering in the investigation by blocking warrants to search homes for evidence and to stop wiretaps of the Alberto Kanoore Edul family.

Kanoore Edul was a businessman of Syrian orgin who was connected to Carlos Telleldin, who was arrested after it was found that the pickup used as a car bomb had "passed through his hands."

The investigating judge at the time, Alberto Nisman, had denounced that there had been a "deliberate plan" to protect Kanoore Edul, who may have planned the attack with Moshen Rabbani, the ex-cultural attache of the Iranian Embassy in Buenos Aires.

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Según el expediente, se pudo acreditar que Carlos Menem, "en connivencia" con su hermano Munir, a partir del 1 de agosto de 1994 tuvo una "determinante incidencia" en el proceso judicial que dirigía Galeano.

De acuerdo con la investigación, con anterioridad al 31 de julio de 1994 existía en el expediente "un marco probatorio" que ameritaba allanamientos domiciliarios y la intervención de las líneas telefónicas de la familia de Alberto Kanoore Edul.

Kanoore Edul era un comerciante de origen sirio que, según revelaron escuchas telefónicas, tuvo vinculación con Carlos Telleldín, quien fue detenido tras comprobarse que por sus manos pasó la camioneta utilizada como coche-bomba para el atentado.

El fiscal del caso, Alberto Nisman, había denunciado un "plan deliberadamente ideado" para proteger a Kanoore Edul, quien, según las actuaciones, habría planificado el atentado junto al ex agregado cultural de la embajada iraní en Buenos Aires Moshen Rabbani.

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Complete article (in Spanish) from Clarin -- mainstream Argentine newspaper

http://www.clarin.com/diario/2009/10/01/um/m-02010205.htm

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7. Thank you.

Obstruction of justice then. This should be interesting.

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9. GHWBush deserves this same treatment for stonewalling BCCI's narco-terrorism and armsdealing

matters. His Dem successor deserves to be called out, too, for deepsixing BCCI matters for Poppy Bush and his cronies throughout the 90s.

[Vidar]

12. Always good to see justice--in other countries.