Ex Interpol head Ronald Noble refutes claim that Cristina Kirchner sought Iran Red Notices lifted

[sandensea]

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The former Secretary General of Interpol, Ronald K. Noble, repudiated claims made by an Argentine judge that former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, President Mauricio Macri's chief political rival, sought to have Interpol Red Notices lifted against Iranian officials implicated in the 1994 AMIA terrorist attack in Buenos Aires.

The three year-old claim, dismissed by Argentine courts in seven instances - including two appeals - was revived on Thursday by Federal Judge Claudio Bonadío, who indicted Mrs. Kirchner for “treason” and asked that the Senate expel her in order to facilitate her arrest.

“A biased Judge Bonadío report cannot change the truth,” Noble tweeted earlier today. “INTERPOL was never asked by Argentina or (former Foreign Minister Héctor) Timerman to remove the AMIA Red Notices!”

Regarding Bonadío's claim that “Noble's impartiality should be doubted” and other assertions, Noble, 61, declared that he “is not ill and does not need immunity to speak the Truth - which is that INTERPOL was never ever asked to remove the AMIA Red Notices.”

Red Notice red flags

The claim that the Kirchner administration sought to “cover up” alleged Iranian complicity in the AMIA attack by asking Interpol to lift Red Notices against implicated Iran officials was originally made on January 12, 2015, by the late AMIA prosecutor Alberto Nisman.

Nisman was vehemently opposed to a 2013 memorandum of understanding signed with Iran for their cooperation in the case - still unsolved after 23 years.

Noble noted on January 15, 2015 - as he did again today - that no such requests had been made, however, and that on the contrary, the Kirchner administration had “stated on each occasion that Interpol should keep the red notices effective.”

“Prosecutor Nisman's assertion,” Noble declared, “is false.”

Facing a congressional subpoena over the scandal, Nisman was found dead four days later of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. The investigation into Nisman's death remains ongoing.

Bonadío had been exposed in 1996 as a “napkin judge” - a shortlist of judges who lent themselves to politicized trials at the behest of then-President Carlos Menem and his Interior Minister, Carlos Corach.

Bonadío was recused from the case in 2004 for use of false evidence and for failing to move the AMIA case forward. Nisman accused Bonadío, Corach, and former Macri-appointed Police Chief Jorge Palacios of having threatened his life over the case in 2010.

At: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=es&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politicargentina.com%2Fnotas%2F201712%2F23910-interpol-desmintio-a-bonadio-y-aseguro-que-nunca-ordeno-levantar-las-alertas-rojas.html&edit-text=

Former Argentine Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman and former Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble discuss the AMIA case in 2013.

[Judi Lynn]

1. What sane, mentally competent person is going to believe Cristina Fernndez tried a cover-up

so many years after the actual crime? Who could be that stupid? So damned preposterous, and underhanded. Those promoting this farce should be exiled to the world's smallest, desert-like, windswept island.

[sandensea]

2. Exactly. The cover-up for the 1994 attack took place in 1994.

Like the 1992 Israeli Embassy bombing, which was forensically shown to have been done from inside the building (Menem ordered the report suppressed), the AMIA investigation had been so utterly tainted by obstruction of justice, witness tampering, and every manner of other malfeasance from Menem, Corach, Judges Galeano and Bonadío, Police Chief 'Fino' Palacios (Macri's wiretapper) on down, that the case had to be vacated a decade later - in other words, put back to square one.

Nisman, who took over "prosecution" of the case at that time (2004) was unanimously condemned by victims' rights groups for sitting on the case - including wiretapping the victims' groups themselves, on which he much of his time and taxpayer money.

What little work he did do, consisted mostly of sojourns to the U.S. Embassy, which routinely gave him instructions as to how best to pin the bombing on Iran - to help justify the bombing of Iran (a cherished Netanyahoo goal as well, as you know).

And the $3 million annual budget Cristina Kirchner gave Nisman? We know where a lot of that ended up: parties in Brazil, and a secret, $666,000 Merrill Lynch bank account in New York which he shared with his "tech expert" (and reputed lover) Diego Lagomarsino.

[Judi Lynn]

3. It sounds totally credible,unlike the yarn the Macreeps have been trying to force feed the world.

All Nisman's antiics which made it to any English news sources sounded so looney, too. He sounded like someone devious before he
bought the farm.

What on earth would Cristina have to gain? Absolutely nada. True villains always accuse their innocent targets of the kind of behavior they, themselves, and no one else, would conduct.

The first peep I saw on Nisman's joining the Choir Celestial, I wasn't surprised. He was that kind of guy. He was a hard, dirty person, who didn't play well with others.



I had never heard he was also making trips to Washington. That would have been during Dubya, wouldn't it?

Someday that story is going to have to be revealed. It should not remain buried.

Thanks, sandensea.

Uh, oh. I just looked up Diego Lagomarsino's image, and instantly recognized it from some notorious business. I recalled I had had reason to look for him other times, after reading information which was wierd enough for me to wonder about what kind of person he was:





I've also seen his photo with glasses. Some kind of creep, for sure.

[Judi Lynn]

4. I found a thread with a couple of references to this creep, Diego Lagomarsino.

Besides Stiusso, the late Mr. Nisman consorted with a very sordid cast of characters, unfortunately (http://buenosairesherald.com/article/180288/car-leads-to-more-intelligence-questions) - his friend Diego Lagomarsino, for one. Lagomarsino's gun fired the fatal shot, and far from being an "innocent bystander" he's known to have spied on protesters. His own lawyer (who had defended former President Carlos Menem in the Ecuador/Croatia arms trafficking case) practically admitted Lagomarsino was an SI asset just two days ago.

Post #5:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141004176

Oh, yeah! Now it's all coming back. I've heard his name a LOT of times, and couldn't place it for a while.

Well, now!

[sandensea]

5. Ah, yes. The enterprising Antonio Stiusso.

He wanted revenge, Bibi wants to pin the AMIA attack on Iran (very hard to do, given that the building was blown up from the inside), and the bumbling Nisman was worth more to both of them dead than alive.

Nisman's death suited both of them - and of course Argentina's right-wingers, who squeaked into power that November thanks largely to the resulting fracas.

It's of course no coincidence Nisman's debunked claim (called out as a lie by Interpol) is being dredged up now: Macri thinks he can use it to put Kirchner away, and Bibi thinks he can use it to lure the easily-led Cheeto into bombing Iran.

Cristina Kirchner herself frequently referred to the case being used as a "geopolitical pawn."

Bibi's wrong though. Very few U.S. voters care about anything that happened in Buenos Aires. He'd have to stage a bombing in Israel's DC Embassy - and really make it look like Iran did it - for it to even register in U.S. network news anymore (God forbid - though I certainly wouldn't put it past Bibi to try it).

Interesting times, these.