Why Nisman's Killing In Argentina Matters To The U.S.
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Years
ago, Henry Kissinger dismissed Argentina (or sometimes Chile, depending
on the version) as "a dagger pointed at the heart of Antarctica."
In 2015, things are a bit different.
It's not that this country has anything to teach us about economics, other than what not to do. But a lot of vital news is emanating from that country — from the new Argentine pope to, perhaps even more pointedly, the aftermath of the shocking death of Argentine special prosecutor Alberto Nisman, which has special relevance to our war on terror and confrontation with Iran.
Nisman headed the long, thankless investigation of what has been called the first 9/11 — the 1994 AMIA bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires, which killed 85 and injured about 200. Nobody's been prosecuted for that brazen terrorist atrocity at the center of a world capital, yet Nisman, who had been appointed by the late leftwing President Nestor Kirchner, went to heroic levels to get to the bottom of the horror.
What he found was that Iran, attempting to teach Argentina a "lesson" for re-establishing relations with Israel, was behind the attack. And he slowly, surely made moves to bring these people to justice. He dug and kept digging — and, as IBD explained in 2013, found an entire network of Iranian Hezbollah operations through the Americas.
And just as the Obama administration was declaring the war on terror over, Nisman came out with a 500-page report in 2013 showing how Iran's influence had grown -- and how Iran had been behind several attacks on the U.S.
Nisman's findings were so powerful he was called to testify before the U.S. Congress, but he was undercut by Kirchner's widow, now President Cristina Fernandez, whose minions said such testimony wasn't part of his official duties. They managed to silence him before he could speak — and not for the last time.
Back in Buenos Aires, Nisman found that there was a reason Fernandez didn't want the truth to get out about Hezbollah in our hemisphere: She made a deal with Iran to allow their killers — all in high-ranking positions in Iran — to walk free, in exchange for a trade deal to buy Iranian oil in exchange for sales of Argentinian grain.
Nisman found this out through legal subpoenas of official recordings. And he made no secret of his desire to point the finger, boldly announcing that he would have some revelations for Argentina's Congress on Monday.
On Sunday he turned up dead in his apartment — with the government saying it was a terribly unfortunate suicide.
Not even Nisman's ex-wife believes that one. And once again, he was silenced just before he had the chance to speak.
Eyes turned to Argentina's government as the likely source of the murder, as it seems perfectly capable of carrying out such a mafia-like extra-legal rubout.
But there were also events going on in the Middle East — Israel took out several terrorist leaders over the weekend — and therefore motivation for retaliation against a thorn in Iran's side in Argentina.
And Hezbollah has a long history of assassination as a political tactic.
But more important, the U.S. lost a treasure trove of intelligence on Hezbollah's activities in the hemisphere — from an attempted terror attack on New York City in 2007 that originated from Hezbollah's Guyana cell to a foiled attempt to assassinate the Saudi ambassador from its Texas cell in 2011, the latter showing Hezbollah's links to Mexico's Zeta cartel.
These all arose out of the Hezbollah infrastructure that is rapidly building in the Americas that Nisman warned about — and that he was planning to detail this week.
In 2015, things are a bit different.
It's not that this country has anything to teach us about economics, other than what not to do. But a lot of vital news is emanating from that country — from the new Argentine pope to, perhaps even more pointedly, the aftermath of the shocking death of Argentine special prosecutor Alberto Nisman, which has special relevance to our war on terror and confrontation with Iran.
Nisman headed the long, thankless investigation of what has been called the first 9/11 — the 1994 AMIA bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires, which killed 85 and injured about 200. Nobody's been prosecuted for that brazen terrorist atrocity at the center of a world capital, yet Nisman, who had been appointed by the late leftwing President Nestor Kirchner, went to heroic levels to get to the bottom of the horror.
What he found was that Iran, attempting to teach Argentina a "lesson" for re-establishing relations with Israel, was behind the attack. And he slowly, surely made moves to bring these people to justice. He dug and kept digging — and, as IBD explained in 2013, found an entire network of Iranian Hezbollah operations through the Americas.
And just as the Obama administration was declaring the war on terror over, Nisman came out with a 500-page report in 2013 showing how Iran's influence had grown -- and how Iran had been behind several attacks on the U.S.
Nisman's findings were so powerful he was called to testify before the U.S. Congress, but he was undercut by Kirchner's widow, now President Cristina Fernandez, whose minions said such testimony wasn't part of his official duties. They managed to silence him before he could speak — and not for the last time.
Back in Buenos Aires, Nisman found that there was a reason Fernandez didn't want the truth to get out about Hezbollah in our hemisphere: She made a deal with Iran to allow their killers — all in high-ranking positions in Iran — to walk free, in exchange for a trade deal to buy Iranian oil in exchange for sales of Argentinian grain.
Nisman found this out through legal subpoenas of official recordings. And he made no secret of his desire to point the finger, boldly announcing that he would have some revelations for Argentina's Congress on Monday.
On Sunday he turned up dead in his apartment — with the government saying it was a terribly unfortunate suicide.
Not even Nisman's ex-wife believes that one. And once again, he was silenced just before he had the chance to speak.
Eyes turned to Argentina's government as the likely source of the murder, as it seems perfectly capable of carrying out such a mafia-like extra-legal rubout.
But there were also events going on in the Middle East — Israel took out several terrorist leaders over the weekend — and therefore motivation for retaliation against a thorn in Iran's side in Argentina.
And Hezbollah has a long history of assassination as a political tactic.
But more important, the U.S. lost a treasure trove of intelligence on Hezbollah's activities in the hemisphere — from an attempted terror attack on New York City in 2007 that originated from Hezbollah's Guyana cell to a foiled attempt to assassinate the Saudi ambassador from its Texas cell in 2011, the latter showing Hezbollah's links to Mexico's Zeta cartel.
These all arose out of the Hezbollah infrastructure that is rapidly building in the Americas that Nisman warned about — and that he was planning to detail this week.
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