Argentina - Alberto Nisman - Laboratory Analysis - Nisman DNA Only

LAHT Article Argentine Probe Finds Only Prosecutor’s DNA on Gun BUENOS AIRES – The only DNA found on the gun that killed Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman belonged to the deceased, the person directing the investigation said Friday. Nisman was found fatally shot on Jan. 18, hours before he was supposed to brief Argentina’s Congress about his accusations that President Cristina Fernandez and other officials sought to conceal the involvement of Iran in a deadly 1994 terrorist attack targeting a Jewish organization in Buenos Aires. The prosecutor died of a single shot to the temple, fired at point-blank range from a .22-caliber pistol that was found under his body in the bathroom of his apartment. Nisman, who had a 10-person police security detail, borrowed the gun from a colleague. Laboratory analysis determined “categorically” that all of the DNA found on the gun, ammunition cartridge, bullets and shell-casings belonged to Nisman, prosecutor Viviana Fein said Friday in a statement. At the time of his death, Nisman was seeking to indict Fernandez, Foreign Minister Hector Timerman and five other people in connection with his probe of the car-bomb attack that left 85 dead at the offices of the Jewish organization AMIA. Investigators have labeled the case a “suspicious death.” Fein said her office’s technical staff have informed her that the stairways of Nisman’s apartment building do not have security cameras, while the camera mounted in the elevator was out of service the day of the prosecutor’s death.  [Gee, that was handy.] She said she took statements on Friday from the people who manage the computer network in the office of the special prosecutor for the AMIA case. Nisman, 51, was laid to rest Thursday at a Jewish cemetery on the outskirts of Buenos Aires. The Argentine government rejected on Friday a U.S. lawmaker’s call for an international enquiry into Nisman’s death.   [International inquiry?  US lawmaker call?  Something's going on here.] Argentina “is an autonomous and independent country,” Cabinet chief Jorge Capitanich said during his daily press briefing, calling Sen. Marco Rubio’s proposal the expression of an “imperial vision” that “ignores the principal of national self-determination.” Rubio, chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs, sent a letter Thursday to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, saying that he was “deeply concerned about the ability of the government of Argentina to conduct a fair and impartial investigation.” The senator’s call for an international investigation is an “unwarranted intrusion appropriate to an imperial attitude that represents the most recalcitrant Republican right,” Capitanich said. The charges against Fernandez and Timerman were based on intercepts of telephone conversations about efforts “to erase Iran from the AMIA case,” Nisman’s office said Jan. 14 in a statement. The government wanted to eliminate any obstacle to forging closer trade and economic ties with Tehran, the prosecutor said. Timerman – himself a member of Argentina’s Jewish community – reacted angrily to the accusations, labeling Nisman a liar and saying that the prosecutor allowed himself to be unduly influenced by Jaime Stiuso, recently fired as chief of operations for the intelligence service. Many in the Argentine Jewish community believe the AMIA bombing was ordered by Iran and carried out by Tehran’s Hezbollah allies. Both the Iranian government and the Lebanese militia group deny any involvement and some have pointed out that the accusation relies heavily on information provided by the CIA and Israel’s Mossad spy agency, both with an interest in blackening the reputation of Tehran. [Note:  CIA & Mossad assassination of Imad Mugniyah claim.] [ . . . ] EXTRACT ONLY - FULL @ SOURCE http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2371997&CategoryId=14093 SENATOR MARCO RUBIO Marco Rubio Roman Catholicism Parents = Cubans who had immigrated to USA 1956 Pedro Victor Garcia (maternal grandfather) immigrated legally to the US in 1956 returned to Cuba to find work in 1959 On returning to USA in 1962 without a visa, US embassies in Cuba being closed, an immigration judge ordered him deported. US immigration authorities = used discretion to allow him to remain in the US without a visa. "In 2012, The Associated Press concluded that Garcia might have been undocumented for four years, from 1962 to 1966." "His parents left Cuba in 1956, during the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista." "Rubio's previous statements that his parents were forced to leave Cuba in 1959, after Fidel Castro came to power, were incorrect." "The real essence of my family's story is not about the date my parents first entered the United States. Or whether they traveled back and forth between the two nations. Or even the date they left Fidel Castro's Cuba forever and permanently settled here. The essence of my family story is why they came to America in the first place; and why they had to stay." "According to The Washington Post, Rubio's "embellishments" resonated with many voters in Florida, who would not be as impressed by his family being economic migrants seeking a better life in the U.S. instead of political refugees from a communist regime." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Rubio While studying law, Rubio interned for US Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Ileana Ros y Adato was born in Havana, Cuba. Ros-Lehtinen was raised Catholic and is now an Episcopalian. Ros-Lehtinen's maternal grandparents were Sephardic Jews, originally from the Ottoman Empire, who had been active in Cuba's Jewish community. Ros-Lehtinen supported President George W. Bush's surge policy in Iraq, a supporter of Israel and supports continued sanctions against Cuba. Ros-Lehtinen opposes US support to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East and the Palestinian Authority. She describes herself as a "strong supporter of Israel" and regards the US relationship with Israel as "critical to the national security interests of both nations". Ros-Lehtinen has stirred controversy by calling for the assassination of Cuban Leader Fidel Castro. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ileana_Ros-Lehtinen In 2014 Rubio asked Pope Francis "to take up the cause of freedom and democracy" in Cuba after helping negotiate the release of Alan Gross. COMMENT Didn't expect investigations to come up with anything. How's the elevator camera being conveniently out of order? Washington Post, Newsweek and others are running a story on the CIA and Mossad assassination of Imad Mugniyah: Newsweek story re: Imad Mugniyah http://www.newsweek.com/imad-mugniyah-cia-mossad-303483 Mugniyah is allegedly the Hezbollah criminal 'super-villain' who is accused of committing the AMIA bombing and a host of other attacks, including attacks on US military and the 1992 Israeli Embassy bombing in Argentina. The Newsweek story is based on US intelligence sources: "according to former U.S. intelligence officials interviewed by Newsweek" While this is interesting and topical, in that (a) Imad Mugniyah's son was killed in a recent Israeli attack and (b) AMIA bombing Prosecutor Alberto Nisman has mysteriously been bumped off in Argentina, it is also interesting from the perspective that CIA and Mossad cooperation is in the media now, coming from former US intelligence sources.  The current media spotlight on this may serve to reinforce the alleged Hezbollah and AMIA link  and, under the circumstances (father and son side-by-side burial, both killed), could perhaps also be seen as waving a red flag to a bull, trying to maybe provoke a Hezbollah reaction -- ie baiting Hezbollah.  Either that, or I'm reading way too much into these affairs. It's also interesting that USA's Marco Rubio is simultaneously trying to get some mileage out of the Nisman development in Argentina, by taking the Nisman affair out of Argentina.

Adrian Salbuchi - AMIA Argentina attack: Mystery behind public prosecutor Nisman’s death

AMIA Argentina attack: Mystery behind public prosecutor Nisman’s death Adrian Salbuchi is a political analyst, author, speaker and radio/TV commentator in Argentina.  [ . . . ] Spy versus spy versus spy The bombed building housed – then and now – not just the AMIA Mutual Association, but also the DAIA - Argentine Delegation of Israeli Associations – the powerful local Jewish lobby working for Israel. After more than 21 years, this has become Argentina’s most corruption-riddled case, where obscene meddling by Israel’s Mossad, and America’s CIA and FBI included such pranks as planting false evidence of a nonexistent car bomb, censoring other much more likely leads, and paying kickbacks to false witnesses in order to falsely incriminate Hezbollah, either through Syria at first, or Iran since 2006. The mainstream media – both local and international – has held public opinion ransom to programmed confusion, outright lies and an emotional roller-coasting on an event which left 85 civilians dead. The real behind-the-scenes players have been, however, carefully protected. One such key player is a powerful Argentine SI (Intelligence Service) agent by the name of Jaime Stiusso who has systematically promoted the US and Israeli version of this event which led to Argentina falsely accusing Iran of that dreadful crime. Counting with full CIA, Mossad and MI6 support and protection, Mr. Stiusso became public prosecutor Nisman’s mentor as the latter systematically and boisterously pointed an accusing finger at Iran ever since he was placed in charge of the investigation in 2004. The “Iran did it” myth went into high gear under the George W. Bush Administration, as part of its strategy of generalized overrunning of the Middle East after 9/11, and especially after July 2006 when Israel’s invasion and bombing of Lebanon and Hezbollah led to Israel’s being routed (an entire Israeli tank division was decimated by Mr. Nasrallah’s Hezbollah forces trained and armed by Iran).  Iranian connection? Then, just over two months after Israel’s Lebanon incursion, on September 22, 2006 a private meeting took place at the New York Waldorf-Astoria hotel between then Argentine President Nestor Kirchner, his first lady Cristina Kirchner (National Senator and soon to be president) and Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana, and key powerful Jewish leaders including the American Jewish Committee (AJC), the World Jewish Congress (WJC), the B’Nai B’Rith Jewish Masonic Lodge and its militant arm the Anti Defamation League (ADL). An agreement was reached in which Argentina would accuse Iran of the AMIA attack, to which end Mr. Kirchner immediately dispatched federal prosecutor Alberto Nisman to the US to “gather the necessary evidence against Iran” from the CIA and Mossad intelligence agencies who clearly had their Anti-Iran axe to grind. As proof of full US and Israeli satisfaction with Argentina, the World Jewish Congress’s political director Rabbi Israel Singer promptly expressed these organizations’ satisfaction with Argentina’s accusations against Iran, proof that the Waldorf-Astoria agreement was being executed by the Kirchner Administration. Mr. Nisman immediately accused former Iranian President Ali Rafsanjani and key ministers of masterminding the AMIA attack. However, he was never able produce proper, tenable proof. He actually requested Interpol to arrest former Iranian ambassador to Argentina, Mr. Hami Soleimanpour in London, his arrest by British authorities quickly ended because Mr. Nisman submitted no proper evidence of its accusations, even making the Argentine government pick up the £200,000 court costs. Irrespective of this, over the past decade Mr. Nisman became the darling of Jewish entities in the US, Israel and Europe where he regularly visited to brief them on the AMIA/DAIA case. In 2007, he actually went so far as to report on the matter to the Supreme Court… not of Argentina, but of Israel. Mr. Nisman became very popular and was very much in the media but had just one problem: He just could not put together a proper case with proper evidence against Iran, to the growing concern of US Neocons like Republican lobbyist-legislator Ileana Ros-Lethinen and Israel’s successive ultra-right-wing governments. The case sank to new depths of confusion when in January 2014, former Israeli ambassador to Argentina during the AMIA attack, Yitzhak Aviram, publicly boasted that “the people who blew up the AMIA building have all been executed by us (Israel).” He was immediately hushed up by Israel. In sync with the Kirchner Administration, Mr. Nisman continued to blame Iran, but when the Obama Administration came to power in 2009, the US began having second thoughts about Baby Bush’s aggressive Neocon strategy of “taking out Iran”. With things growing dramatically worse in Iraq, and a growing resistance from Russia and other players to US/UK war-mongering, America became much more moderate on Iran and, through “unofficial and discrete channels” it was made clear to President Cristina Kirchner that maybe the time had come for her to have a chat with the Iranians. Thus, in January 2013, Argentina announced that it would indeed “start talking” to the Iranians – something it had not done for almost seven years – and quickly a “Memorandum of Understanding” was signed which became local law in March 2013. As part of this, a “Commission for Truth” was to be set up (but wasn’t Mr. Nisman and his Mossad and CIA controllers supposed to have in their power all the “damning truth and evidence against Iran”?) Neocons in the US and Israelis went ballistic with rage. To add insult to injury, last December President Kirchner cleaned out the top brass at the local SI Intelligence Agency, specifically throwing out US/UK/Israeli operator-agent Jaime Stiusso. An undated handout combination photo released in Buenos Aires on November 9, 2005 shows Ibrahim Hussein Berro, who has been identified by Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman as a Hizbollah militant and the suicide bomber responsible for the 1994 car-bomb attack on the AMIA Jewish community center (Reuters / Argentine Prosecutor's Office) Mr. Nisman was supposed to be on holidays touring Europe with his 15-year-old daughter during all of this month of January. However, suddenly whilst visiting Amsterdam “somebody there” seems to have ordered him to fly back immediately to Argentina. So fast that he asked his wife to pick up their daughter at Madrid Airport where he dropped her off and flew on to Buenos Aires. Upon arriving, he produced out of his hat as if by magic, a 350 page dossier case accusing President Kirchner and her (also Jewish) Foreign Minister Hector Timerman of “covering-up” Iran. He was about to present this during a special emergency summer session in Argentina’s Congress at 3pm on Monday, January 19, but he may have realized that his case was still-born and had no chance whatsoever of holding up. Anyway - alas! - he (or “somebody”) conveniently killed him sometime early Sunday, January 18. Nisman’s case and the ensuing cross-questioning would have probably thrown the whole AMIA/DAIA investigation back to square one. For a second time, as already happened in 2003 when the case for a “Syrian connection” fell completely through ending up with the prosecution of Juan Galeano, the former federal judge hearing the case, and where even one of DAIA’s former presidents - Ruben Beraja - ended up in jail for helping to bribe a shady car-dealer by the name of Carlos Telleldin to the tune of $400,000, so that he would incriminate the Buenos Aires Police which was supposed to produce a false lead, in turn leading back to the elusive “car bomb.” That “car bomb” was never found save for a small bit of metal of a van engine “found” by an Israeli military intelligence officer “helping out” in the AMIA building rubble right after the 18th July 1994 bombing which, “luckily” had the vehicle serial number on it. Sounds a bit like Mohammed Atta’s intact passport “found” in the WTC rubble? Or maybe the masked Charlie Hebdo terrorist’s dropping his ID card in Paris a couple of weeks ago? If Mr. Nisman’s flawed case were unmasked then the beehive would once again be stirred and that represented something very dangerous for the US, Israel, local and international Jewish lobbies that have fought so hard to put the blame on Iran. And that a far more plausible lead should be investigated: a possible Israeli connection.  Israeli connection During the early nineties, there was sordid internal fighting over Palestine and Israel’s illegal settlements, between Israel’s left-wing, and the rising ultra-fundamentalist racist right-wing. When the AMIA/DAIA HQ was blown-up by a never-to-be-found ”car bomb,” Israel was governed by Yitzhak Rabin’s Labour Party which was honestly seeking a peaceful two-state solution with the Palestinians. In July 1994, Rabin even allowed PLO leader Yasser Arafat to return to Palestine from exile, just 18 days before the AMIA/DAIA building was blown up. Other events pointing to this internal fighting occurred at the time, but a huge conflict finally came to a head less than 18 months after the AMIA/DAIA attack, when Prime Minister Rabin was assassinated at a public rally in Israel in November 1995. Who was the assassin? A Muslim terrorist? No. Some whacko neo-Nazi? No. PM Rabin was assassinated by one Yigal Amir, a young ultra-right wing Israeli militant linked to the Shin Beth (which Rabin had downsized) and the illegal Jewish settlers’ movement inside Israel. The political results for Israel basically boiled down to the peace-seekers never coming back to power in the country, and for Netanyahu, Sharon, Olmert, Barak, Lieberman, Livni, Feiglin and their friends running Israel ever since. Thus, the Palestinians never got their sovereign state. Instead, they keep getting Israel’s bombs, attacks, humiliations, and that 8-meter tall, 800 kilometer long Wall Israel built around their country. Within this global backdrop, the “logic” behind the AMIA/DAIA attack takes on a very different dimension: an internal war where the Israeli ultra-right sent the peace broking left “an offer they couldn’t refuse,” probably engineered by clandestine groups inside or even above Mossad+CIA+MI6+some Blackwater-like black ops player. Echoing Godfather Don Corleone, these dark perpetrators were suitably briefed to “make it look like an Iranian-sponsored Hezbollah car bomb.” It just didn’t work out quite the way they expected. Busybody Nisman was coming too uncomfortably close to stirring the bee hive. Maybe that’s what led to his death. Just as the police commissioner investigating the Charlie Hebdo event was “suicided” on the night of that attack; or as London Underground electrician Jean Menezes, who may have “seen something” in the days prior to the July 2005 London Transport attacks was “mistakenly” gunned down by London Police only a few days later. Clearly, the “War on Terror” has come home to Argentina. Again. As we write, the powerful local Jewish lobbies DAIA and AMIA are yelling and whining that they “fear a third terror attack against Jewish interests in Argentina,” conveniently media-fed by the “unexplained disappearance” of an Argentine Army anti-tank missile earlier this month. The US Center for Security Policy just published an article in The Washington Times calling on the US and EU to impose “sanctions against Argentina.” Presidential elections will be taking place later this year in Argentina, and practically all the candidates – with favorites Daniel Scioli, Mauricio Macri, and Sergio Massa leading the list – are toeing the politically correct line, a fact that is most consistent considering that they regularly visit and report to the Rockefeller-Negroponte-William Rhodes “Americas Society,” and regularly pay homage to the World Jewish Congress, American Jewish Committee, DAIA, AMIA and other local and international Israeli lobbies. Finally, for Ms. Kirchner there are two lessons: (1) when ultra-right wing Israelis and Neocons fight amongst themselves, do not stray into the crossfire, and if you do pick one side then stay there; because (2) “Rome does not reward traitors.” Adrian Salbuchi is a political analyst, author, speaker and radio/TV commentator in Argentina. He is also the Founder of the Second Republic Project – Proyecto Segunda República. The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT. EXTRACT - SOURCE:  http://rt.com/op-edge/226263-argentina-attack-prosecutor-death-amia/ .................................................................... COMMENT While I was just messing around largely playing devil's advocate putting forward alternate explanations for the Argentina events and unnamed intelligence officials speaking to the press etc, this guy has come up with a real CIA, Mossad and MI6 hand in Argentine events argument and had it published in RT. Not sure if I've already read this or not.  Know I've read something by him before. Not taking in all of the article.  Bit complicated for a newbie like me, but I suppose it's worth a read.

Argentina - Dissolution of Intelligence Secretariat

ARGENTINA / INTELLIGENCE SECRETARIAT THE GUARDIAN ARTICLE The shady history of Argentina’s Intelligence Secretariat The agency, which president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner wants to dissolve, runs domestic spying on a scale to rival the communist bloc Tuesday 27 January 2015 13.28 AEST On Monday night, Argentina’s president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, took the bold step of announcing a plan to dissolve the country’s Intelligence Secretariat and send to congress a draft bill for the “reform of Argentina’s intelligence service” in the wake of the death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman nine days ago. A possible explanation for Nisman’s death, which came only days after he announced charges that aimed to put Fernández on trial for an alleged conspiracy with Iran, seems to be hidden inside a complex saga of mind-boggling intrigue involving the intelligence agency she now intends to reform. Created as the Information Division (División Informaciones) by Argentina’s strongman General Juan Perón in 1946, the service’s first task was to arrange the postwar transport of Nazi war criminals to Argentina, some of whom then went on to serve in Perón’s intelligence agency. Since then, the service has changed its name a number of times, its latest incarnation being the Intelligence Secretariat, better known by its Spanish-language acronym SI. Under Fernández, Argentina’s secret service is alleged to have been involved in domestic spying on a scale rivalling that in Eastern European nations before the fall of the Berlin wall. [Meanwhile, let's forget about NATO's stay-behind paramilitary in Europe, Operation Gladio, and let's forget about contemporary NSA worldwide MASS surveillance, involving FVEY/Five Eye (UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand & USA); reporters both sides of Atlantic either bribed or otherwise used, or spied on & harassed; RIPA powers abused UK; political groups and various protesters harassed & spied on both sides of Atlantic and so on. What's with 'Eastern European' rubbish when one need not look any further than home for examples of 'communist bloc' spying  -- and much, much worse?] Nisman’s connection at the SI was Antonio, aka “Jaime” Stiuso, an enigmatic figure who for years reputedly ran a vast eavesdropping network that made him the most feared man in Argentina. Few details about the man are in the public domain. He is a 61-year-old communications expert who joined the service in 1972 at 18 years of age. He has three daughters (for whom he reportedly sought security protection from a Buenos Aires court recently) and is reputedly extremely charming. “He’s charismatic, very relaxed, he laughs a lot,” says Rodis Recalt, a journalist from Noticias magazine who interviewed him last month. “After months of tracking him, he called me. I never saw him face to face.” [Charming, charismatic, jolly ... combined with 'most feared man in Argentina' running a vast eavesdropping network?  Sounds like a sociopath.] Under Férnandez in recent years, and under Néstor Kirchner, the president’s now-deceased husband and predecessor, Stiuso’s power is alleged to have grown exponentially, thanks to the extensive wiretapping services on political opponents that he allegedly carried out for the Kirchners.  [But is he *really* a Kirchner man?] “But last October, when Fernández found out through military intelligence that Nisman was preparing charges against her for an alleged cover-up of Iran’s role in the bombing, she became understandably furious that Stiuso had not alerted her,” an intelligence source told the Guardian. [An unnamed source.  Eyeroll.  Sounds like a case of military intelligence versus Intelligence Secretariat in Argentina and Intelligence Secretariat versus Argentine government?  That naughty Stiuso ... might be up to no good.] By late December, when she began to suspect that it was actually Stiuso who had poisoned Nisman against her, she fired Stiuso and began preparing to dismiss Nisman as well. “She was doubting between replacing Nisman completely, or appointing two assistant prosecutors by his side to neutralise him,” the source maintains. The president’s alleged fury was fuelled by the extensive use of wiretaps provided by Stiuso that Nisman made in his 300-page accusation against her. In an long statement posted to her website last week, Fernández seemed to make the case that Nisman’s accusation was actually written by Stiuso, and that Nisman was then killed by the same people who convinced him to present the charges. “They used him alive and then they needed him dead,” Fernández wrote. “As sad and as terrible as that.”  [To be fair, Stiuso does sound like a right piece of work.] Former president Kirchner introduced Nisman to Stiuso 11 years ago, when Kirchner put the prosecutor in charge of solving the 1994 bombing of the Amia Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires, which killed 85 people, the deadliest terrorist attack in Latin America. “The two developed a father-son relationship,” says the intelligence source, who knew both men well.  [Intelligence source who knew both Nisman and Stiuso?  Is that it?  C'mon, that's pretty broad. Skipping the misty-eyed father and son relationship scenario (or is that Puppet Master and Puppet?), wonder if the intelligence source 'who knew both men well' is Stiuso himself ... or maybe even the CIA, judging by information from other sources: Argentina's Foreign Minister has accused those in the intelligence agency of fabricating the complaint: statement by Foreign Minister Hector Timerman against Prosecutor Alberto Nisman describing his complaint as a fabricated product of a manoeuvre by Intelligence Service agents who have been removed from their positions [here] Another article reports that Nisman's Iran & Hezbollah accusations are based almost wholly on information from intelligence services -- and that the US embassy is responsible for pushing Nisman in that direction: Nisman is a prosecutor who devoted the past 10 years to push the accusations against the Iranian regime and Lebanon’s Hezbollah for the AMIA bombing, almost completely based on information provided by intelligence services. The US Embassy was the one that pushed Nisman toward that approach, at the expense of probing any other possible foreign or local responsibilities, as was exposed in the WikiLeaks cables. That thesis is also favoured by the Israeli government and the leadership of the Argentine Jewish community. In particular, the latter tried to lobby before the Embassy in favour of former DAIA President Rubén Beraja, who was convicted and then acquitted of perjury charges to cover up the attack, among other judicial proceedings against him. [here] ] Only the security cameras on the front gate and an Argentinian flag draped from a white metal pole above the entrance indicate the location of the Judicial Observations Department on Avenida de los Incas 3834, a six-storey redbrick building in the upscale neighbourhood of Belgrano. An endless series of press articles and books allege, and at least one court raid has proven, that housed inside are a vast array of computers and recorders continually monitoring the activity of Argentina’s politicians, judges, prosecutors and journalists. Court-ordered wiretaps are also carried out there, since by law only the SI is permitted to intercept calls in Argentina. Nisman made extensive use of the powerful eavesdropping capabilities of the facility while investigating the Amia blast. It was while poring over calls between Argentina and Iran that Nisman says he discovered the secret offer by Argentina’s government to shield Iranian officials from his arrest warrants, in return for Iranian oil. The calls were made to Iranian offical Moshen Rabbani in the city of Qom, who, as the former Iranian cultural attache in Buenos Aires at the time of the bombing, speaks perfect Spanish, the language used in all the transcribed calls.  [As only the intelligence service of Argentina is 'permitted to intercept calls', one would think that any intercepted calls Nisman 'pored' over, would have been done alongside his Intelligence Secretariat 'Daddy', Stiuso.] Stiuso’s name was known to only a select few until 2004, when justice minister Gustavo Beliz, a politician with a reputation for honesty in a political arena widely considered to be mired in corruption, unmasked him. Beliz displayed a blurry photo of Stiuso on television and accused him of having mounted “a kind of Gestapo” to coerce politicians and journalists to follow the bidding of his political masters. Far from being rewarded for his courage, the minister was fired by Kirchner.  [Turns out Gustavo Beliz was acquitted of charges that appear to have been brought about by Stiuso and the same court that acquitted Beliz ordered an investigation into Stiuso - referred to in this post.] Beliz went into self-imposed exile in the United States and Uruguay, unable to return to public office. His withdrawal into silence is considered a testament to Stiuso’s far-reaching secret network.  [Wow, I wonder what the choice of 'retirement' locations is testament to?] But not everybody has such a negative vision of the man who reputedly pulled the secret strings of power in Argentina. “You should have seen how well received he was at the CIA and the Mossad,” says another intelligence source who worked closely with Nisman and Stiuso on the Amia case. The two men became convinced, partly on the basis of intelligence provided by the United States and Israel, that Iran had been behind the blast. The biggest advance in the case came in 2007, when Interpol agreed to issue international “Red Notices” for the arrest of their five main Iranian suspects, Rabbani chief among them.  [Two men?  Take it that's Nisman and Stiuso? LOL ... 'partly' or 'almost WHOLLY', as per other sources. While the issue of an Interpol Red Notice may be described as the 'biggest advance' in the AMIA case, the issue of a Red Notice itself is no indicator of the merits of a case. Extracts of The Guardian's own article about Red Notice misuse: Red notice alerts are meant to be used to combat international crime but their credibility is being undermined, Fair Trials International maintains, because they are being misused by some of the 190 participating states to pursue exiled political opponents. In the UK, Benny Wenda, a West Papuan freedom fighter who escaped from prison in Indonesia and was granted asylum as a political refuge, was pursued by a red notice obtained by Indonesia based on politically-motivated charges. It was deleted following intervention by Fair Trials. In a more recent case, the report documents, a 28-year-old British woman who worked for an airline's cabin crew "had her life turned upsidedown and her employment terminated when she was the subject of an red notice based on an unpaid debt in the Middle East." The notice was belatedly deleted. Source:  The Guardian ] Note also Britain's very own political prisoner, Julian Assange, whose political asylum has been blocked by Sweden, by Red Notice, by European Arrest Warrant, by the threat of extradition to the USA and by the threat of arrest by British police, who have been stationed inside and outside the Ecuador embassy for over 2 years now, at an astonishing cost of nearly US$15 million to the British tax-payer.  No mention of Sweden and Britain abusing the Interpol notice system or US, Sweden and Britain abusing human rights (Take a pick:  Assange or renditions, anyone?), while the establishment accepted targets do get a Guardian mention:  Russia, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Belarus, Indonesia, Iran and Venezuela. But when Argentina and Iran, as a result of the alleged secret negotiations Nisman uncovered, signed a public memorandum in 2013 to set up a joint “Truth Commission” to investigate the blast, effecitvely killing Nisman’s investigation, Stiuso and Nisman became disenchanted with Fernández. The slowly widening rift could explain Nisman’s decision to press charges against her, perhaps with Stiuso’s support, as Fernández seems to feel.  [2013 Iran and Argentina sign a Memorandum.  And this is supposed to have derailed the 10-year investigation and supposed to have been the catalyst for Stiuso and Nisman putting their heads together?  Would have to do some reading to find out more about that.] “Stiuso is an intelligence officer who follows commands to the letter,” says the intelligence source who worked on the Amia case. “But he was not prepared to betray his geopolitical alliance and put in jeopardy the great prestige he enjoyed with the western intelligence services.” [Bullsh*t.  Stiuso sounds more like a power crazy sociopath who does what he wants.  Rather than following 'commands to the letter', sounds like Stiuso is dancing to his own tune ... or that of a foreign interest.  And how does his 'own' (ie personal) geopolitical alliance even come into the equation if he's one to 'follow commands to the letter'?  What commands?  Only those that fit his personal agenda?  Why is this 'intelligence source who worked on the AMIA case' trying to sell us a snake in the grass Stiuso?] From 2013 onwards, the sources agree, Stiuso’s disenchantment with Fernández led him to feed information to the courts and to journalists related to some of the numerous cases of corruption that have made headlines in Argentina in the last two years. [Stiuso was at it WAAAAAAY before 2013, as accuser of the former Justice Minister Gustavo Beliz (acquitted) -- and it looks like he may have been involved in some kind of extortion of a judge, Norberto Oyarbide - here] Sounds like Stiuso could be our unnamed but solid leaker to journalist Damian Pachter or even the unnamed intelligence source in this Guardian piece, if prior form is anything to go by.   No indication if Stiuso was in still in Argentina when Pachter was fed the scoop of the century, but even if he was in the US at that stage, it's not difficult to imagine a Stiuso proxy feeding the media in his absence.  And look (below) where Stiuso headed:  USA.] According to one of these sources, Stiuso has left Argentina for the United States. “He called me from the US a few days ago,” the source says. “He told me he was sickened by what is happening at the intelligence service, particularly by the firing of his 20 closest collaborators.” [LOL ... it's a Stiuso PROXY!!!   Yeah, Stiuso's sickened -- particularly sickened by his OWN firing.] In the face of the failed memorandum of understanding with Iran and the fact the “Red Notices” from Interpol are still standing, at least one former secret service chief has worries that extend far beyond the Nisman case.  [How has the Memorandum failed?  It is a memorandum of understanding -- it is an agreement reached after a decade-long investigation that led nowhere.  Oh, here we go.  Yet another intelligence source stirring up 'worries'. ] “The purge of the service’s best anti-terrorist experts and the failure of the agreement with Iran has left Argentina open to another Amia-style bombing,” says former Intelligence Secretariat chief Miguel Ángel Toma, who knew Stiuso and is also a firm believer that Iran had a hand in the bombing. “We managed to find even the exact date and hour at which the decision to bomb the Amia was taken in Qom,” Toma says. “I am extremely worried.” [The real worry for these guys is the PURGE of the Argentine intelligence service.  Best anti-terrorist experts, my ass.  More like the best CIA/Mossad/MI6 puppets in the country, now scaremongering ... to pressure and destabilise the current Argentine government.] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/27/argentina-intelligence-secretariat-shady-history COMMENT The mark text in red above is obviously my commentary. Where did The Guardian find all these blabbing, whining and badmouthing, Stiuso proxy and CIA snakes for their article?

ARGENTINA: Former Justice Minister (Argentina) Gustavo Beliz | Jaime Stiuso (aka Antonio Horacio Stiles)

ARGENTINA / GUSTAVO BELIZ Google Translation La Nacion Article The conflict with the SIDE Beliz was acquitted by reason Spy [Whaaaaaat?] A court ordered investigate Stiuso Jaime, who was the accuser By Hernán Cappiello | NATION     Sitting with hands gripping the desk, former Justice Minister Gustavo Beliz Judge Guillermo Gordo looked and nodded, not surprisingly, listening to the verdict. "Acquitted" gave the magistrate and, in turn, announced that the court ordered an investigation into the powerful Jaime Stiuso. He now suspected head of counterintelligence SIDE had been accused of serious acts of corruption by Beliz, who left the government in 2004. Stiuso was notably absent at trial. It did not state when he was called as a witness, because he said reserving your image is not guaranteed. After the failure of the Federal tribal Oral No. 3, Beliz was fought last night from an order of condemnation of four years in prison prosecutor Jorge Di Lello, who had accused him of violating secrets to show for TV, seven years ago, a picture of Stiuso. On that occasion, Beliz had said the spy was the real power in the shadows and suggested that the money for the election campaign of 2003 had left the reserved funds SIDE. Yesterday, during his preliminary statement, Beliz resumed his old complaints, but recharged. The judges ordered to send a copy of the audio to the Federal Court for a judge to investigate "offenses mentioned therein public action" will be drawn. Beliz Stiuso blamed for having to leave the country in 2004. He currently lives in Montevideo and works for an international credit agency. He revealed before Gordo, Miguel Pons and Gerardo Larrambebere judges when he was minister suspected Stiuso pricked him emails and phone and called Nestor Kirchner why. He said he did in the presence of Cristina Kirchner. "I said," Vos you can feel that if Pinchas sos phone to have powerful information, but you will be enslaved by the poster click '. "And said Kirchner replied," I'll take care. "But nothing changed. [Crap all-over-the-shop translation - maybe it says Stiuso intercepted e-mails and phone calls.  Hard to work out.] He said Stiuso appears in newspaper articles linked to extortion sex videos that were victims, among others, the federal judge Norberto Oyarbide, when it was recorded surreptitiously gay brothel Spartacus. He reminded that in a meeting with families of the AMIA Kirchner claimed by Stiuso him, whom they accused of irregularities. He mentioned the alleged enrichment Stiuso, whom properties and businesses, constraints to witness the AMIA are awarded and expressed surprise that "a government that made human rights the flag" would not have investigated for their actions during the dictatorship . Beliz exploded with flaming allegations and charged against fiscal Di Lello, who is also electoral prosecutor. He saddled not have appealed the judgment which closed unquestioning surrender of funds from the 2003 election campaign and said that after that decision "drug trafficking infiltrated fundraising campaign of 2007 by ephedrine." The laboratory Sebastián Forza, killed by traffic ephedrine, was electoral contributor. After his fiery words, claimed the prosecutor. Di Lello called a "ejemplarizadora" conviction of four years in prison. He also recalled that he had opened a case in 2004 following demonstrations Beliz, who had finished archived. He even recalled that Beliz said at the time that he did not state the allegations, but knew of them daily. The lawyer Beliz, Gerardo Conte Grand, responded with a furious argument in which he noted that SIDE rather than ensuring the watchful security against it and, moreover, these accusations "reveal the impunity of power that is characteristic of dictatorships left and right, but not in a Republic ". He explained that when Beliz photo showed, Stiuso was known and was no longer secret. Since the end Beliz uttered his last words to charge this time against the prosecutor, accusing him of "following orders" and scolded the "conceited look" she gave him. As it reminded José Luis Cabezas, who "killed him" take a picture of Alfredo Yabrán, to whom power was impunity. "That will not happen again," he said. When the judge read the acquittal Gordo, the reasons will be announced on Monday, the room erupted in applause. Beliz hung his briefcase and pulled tapped on the shoulder by his lawyers .. Hernán Cappiello, LA NATION http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1394746-cont-beliz-fue-absuelto-y-piden-que-se-investigue-a-un-jefe-de-la-side COMMENT This looks like an excellent article, but it's difficult to make out properly, as it's a very garbled translation. ^^ Former Justice Minister (Argentina) Gustavo Beliz is acquitted.  ^^ Guastavo Beliz was brought to trial by Jaime Stiuso (aka Antonio Horacio Stiles). ^^ Court orders investigation of Jaime Stiuso (aka Antonio Horacio Stiles), head of SIDE (ie Secretariat of Intelligence, SI).  ^^ Gustavo Beliz alleges Jaime Stiuso (aka Antonio Horacio Stiles), head of SIDE (ie Secretariat of Intelligence, SI), 'the spy', is the real power in the shadows.  ^^ Beliz disclosed Stiuso's identity by disclosing Stiusio's photograph and Stiuso was no longer 'secret'.  ^^ Beliz alleges Jaime Stiuso (aka Antonio Horacio Stiles) enrichment.  ^^ Beliz suggested that the money for the election campaign of 2003 had left the reserved funds SIDE >> Unsure what this means.  Funding for 2003 election came from funds from intelligence agency???* ^^ Beliz blames Stiuso for having to leave Argentina in 2004.* ^^ Belize currently lives in Montevideo and works for an international credit agency.* ^^ Judge requests a copy of audio, which audio is presumably related to and in support of allegations by Beliz against Stiuso?* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * = Translation difficult to make out.  Uncertain fact. Still trying to determine if the judge Norberto Oyarbide 'fact' in Google translated article (above) is as it seems to read (ie  as I read the very poor translation, it looks as if Stiuso is accused of extortion of the Judge in relation to a sex tape). Looks like Judge Norberto Oyarbide presided over 2009 investigation into Kirchner finances: Accusations of Embezzlement: Following charges of embezzlement filed by a local attorney on 29th October 2009, Federal Judge Norberto Oyarbide ordered an accounting expert to investigate the origin of the Kirchners’ wealth. Public records show that since their arrival to power in 2003, the couple’s declared assets have increased by 710%, largely through land deals in Patagonia. In a preliminary investigation report, the Argentine Anti-Corruption Office established that the official figures provided by the Kirchners “don’t stack up”. The investigation was suspended by Judge Oyarbide on 30th December, though a week later, the ruling was appealed. Source:  http://www.argentinaindependent.com/insideargentina/politics-insideargentina/politics/ Norberto Mario Oyarbide, Argentina Nortberto Oyarbide is sarcastically described by the Argentine media as "the luckiest man in the country" since the random computerized system used to allocate cases to judges regularly selects him to preside over politically sensitive investigations directly linked to the deceased former president Néstor Kirchner (2003-2007), his wife President Cristina Fernández and individuals of their inner-circle.   His opponents claim his ‘survival' on the bench is linked to his alleged favourable rulings for whoever is in power, in exchange for which his career continuity is assured. 1997: Caught on video in a compromising position in a male brothel, "Spartacus", in the Recoleta neighbourhood. He was accused of protecting the brothel in his capacity as a judge and of illicit enrichment during the highly political trial that took place thereafter. Source: http://www.courcyint.com/component/k2/item/46479-norberto-mario-oyarbide,-argentina.html COMMENT Extremely tired (and probably off my face on all the medications I've had to take), so I'm frustrated beyond belief that I can't make out these warped translations or focus enough to read the mass of material there is on the complicated web that is Argentina's politics. There was a reason for looking at this information, but I cannot recall what it was!  I've spent AGES and AGES picking through this stuff and now I can't remember why!!!! After that moment of panic, I've realised that it's former Justice Minister Gustavo Beliz that I was looking up when I came across this.