Sunday, September 7, 2014
Wikileaks founder Assange claims US supports 'vulture funds' in dispute with Argentina
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has alleged that the United States is supporting holdout investors in their dispute with Argentina over debt defaulted in 2001, as a way of punishing the country for the memorandum of understanding signed with Iran to advance investigations into the AMIA bombing.
"It seems that Argentina is now being punished for a geopolitical decision that [the US] did not like," Assange stated, referring to the agreement with the middle-eastern country, during an interview published today with Página/12.
The activist is currently seeking asylum in the Ecuadorean assembly located in London, as he claims that he is under risk of being extradited to the United States if he stays in the UK.
"It is interesting to wonder why the US government supports these actions, because at the start of the trial it seemed that the State Department wanted easy relations with Argentina and it did not support the vulture funds," he explained.
"Now it is supporting them, even though this is clearly causing tension with Argentina."
In Assange's opinion, the dispute between the Argentine government and holdout investors presided over in New York by judge Thomas Griesa "seems to respond to the US' desire to set a precedent so that US businesses can seize the assets of foreign governments, which gives US businesses a clear advantage when it comes to negotiating with foreign governments."
"I had to experience this myself. My prosecutor, the prosecutor who has the case against Wikileaks, is based in Alexandria, Virginia, which is an extension of the centre of power that is Washington DC," he underlined.
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The above article is interesting because I didn't know anything about the 1994 AMIA bombing in Argentina -
here.
Figured the bombing may be related to the Mustafa Dirani kidnapping by Israel -
here. Reason: kidnapping was just before the bombing.
Reading about the bombings -- ie 1992 bombings directed at Israeli targets, this bombing and later stumbling on a news item about a new al-Shebab appointment, I am positively FREAKED out big time about these kinds of organisations.
To be honest, I feel fear. But I don't know why. It's an irrational fear. Or maybe it's an instinctive fear.
It's very hard to understand a region or to build empathy for people from that part of the world, when the people scare you.
It's like a horror movie scare that sort of creepily lingers long after the credits have rolled.
I'm like a dog that needs a really good shake to get creepy feeling off me.
Need to find a music video or something distracting.
