Police Raid Nisman’s House Associate Whose Gun Killed the Prosecutor

BUENOS AIRES – Police raided the house of Diego Lagomarsino, whose gun was used to kill prosecutor Alberto Nisman.

Lagomarsino, an IT specialist who worked with Nisman, admitted providing the gun that was found with the victim and was charged for it.

He alleges he gave his gun to the prosecutor, who had grave concerns about his own security.

A search warrant was issued by Judge Fabiana Palmaghini before Metropolitan Police raided Lagomarsino’s house on Monday in Martinez, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, local media reported.

Nisman, the special prosecutor investigating the 1994 bomb attack on the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association, or AMIA, building in Buenos Aires, was found dead in his Buenos Aires apartment on Jan. 18.

News of his death followed just four days after he filed a complaint against Argentine President Cristina Fernandez for alleged involvement in covering up Iran’s involvement in the attack.

Lagomarsino has admitted he went to Nisman’s apartment on Saturday, Jan. 17.

According to forensic investigators hired by Nisman’s ex-wife Sandra Arroyo Salgado, Nisman’s death qualifies as a murder – not accident or suicide –, and he may have died as early as Jan. 17.

However, Lagomarsino’s defense lawyer Maximiliano Rusconi claims that evidence shows the prosecutor was alive and using his laptop on Sunday morning.

Rusconi told media that preliminary investigations confirmed a local connection was made from Nisman’s computer, contradicting Salgado’s claim.

Gunmen Try to Kill Mayor of Mexican Border City

MEXICO CITY – Matamoros Mayor Leticia Salazar Vazquez was not hurt in an attack by gunmen over the weekend, Mexican officials said.

Four suspects have been arrested in connection with the attack, the Tamaulipas Coordination Group said.

Salazar Vazquez was “entering Matamoros from the western sector” around 8:10 p.m. Sunday when she was attacked, the security agency said.

The gunmen, who were riding in an automobile and an SUV, opened fire “on a vehicle carrying her bodyguards,” the Tamaulipas Coordination Group said.

The four suspects arrested in connection with attack told investigators the incident was a mistake, Tamaulipas state government secretary-general Herminio Garza said.

“They are saying that they participated in the attack on the mayor by mistake, thinking it was another gang that was entering Matamoros and that’s why they attacked the mayor,” Garza told Milenio Television.

Matamoros is located across the border from Brownsville, Texas.

The Gulf and Los Zetas drug cartels have been fighting for control of Tamaulipas and smuggling routes into the United States for years.

The federal government deployed additional security forces units in Tamaulipas last year and purged law enforcement agencies in an effort to stop a wave of drug-related violence in the northeastern state.

Iran news in brief, 11 March 2015

Iran - Atena Faraghdani Ended Her Hunger Strike

Posted on: 9th March, 2015

• Print
• Email

• Rate The News
• Rate this post

• Random News

• Editor: Human
• Translator: Sohrab
• Source:

HRANA News Agency – Atena Farghdani ended her hunger strike as the authorities accepted to transfer her from Gharchak prison in Varamin to Evin prison.

According to Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Atena Faraghdani, political prisoner of Gharchak prison in Varamin, who had been on hunger strike for 21 days, ended her strike.

Mohammad Moghimi, her lawyer, told HRANA’s reporter, “finally, the request of my client was accepted and she flowingly ended her strike. She is currently in hospital under medical care and is slowly passing the process of ending the hunger strike”.

The order of transfer has been issued by branch number 15 of revolutionary court, which is the same branch that her case will be processed by.

Atena Faraghdani is under detention, even though she is kept in prison. She is waiting for a date for her trial.

IAEA official: Iran is six month behind in answering nuclear questions

Tuesday, 10 March 2015 22:45

• Print 
•  Email

 1 0 2Share0

 0

 

The Iranian regime is at least six months behind in providing technical information on the nature of its neutron calculations and experiments on explosives that could be used for an atomic device, a senior UN nuclear watchdog has said.

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) official said on Tuesday that the agency expects more information soon from Iran on its nuclear program as there are talks of progress in the talks.The investigation by IAEA on the military dimension of the Iranian regime’s nuclear program runs parallel to Tehran's talks with six world powers to curb its nuclear work in exchange for lifting economic sanctions.

Diplomats in Vienna have voiced concern there would be little progress in these talks until that political deal is reached.

US Secretary of State John Kerry and Mohammad Javad Zarif, the Iranian regime’s foreign minister, will meet on March 15 in Switzerland.

Source: Agencies

47 U.S. senators send warning letter on Iran nuclear deal

 Tuesday, 10 March 2015 16:20

•  Print 
•  Email

 2 2 7Share0

 0

 

In an open letter to the leaders of the Iranian regime, 47 Republican senators on Monday warned that any nuclear deal brokered without their approval could be undone “with the stroke of a pen.”

The letter, authored by Republican Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton and co-signed by 46 other Republican lawmakers, seeks to inform the regime’s leaders that any nuclear agreement involving the United States could face constitutional hurdles.

“It has come to our attention while observing your nuclear negotiations with our government that you may not fully understand our constitutional system,” the senators wrote.

“Thus, we are writing to bring to your attention two features of our Constitution—the power to make binding international agreements and the different character of federal offices—which you should seriously consider as negotiations progress. Anything not approved by Congress is a mere executive agreement,” they added.

Signers of the letter included all of the Senate’s Republican leaders, and possible 2016 presidential contenders Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Rand Paul.

One Senate Republican who did not sign was Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker. An aide said Corker is focused on getting a veto-proof majority to support his legislation, backed by both Republicans and Democrats, that would require Congress’ authorization of an Iran deal.

Rome: US tourists accused of ‘tagging’ Colosseum