Protest held in Plaza de Mayo condemns Nisman death

Hundreds of people convened in the iconic Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires' downtown area to condemn the death of AMIA lead investigator Alberto Nisman, in a demonstration that was marked by sporadic clashes with police.

While the majority of protesters chanted peacefully, some knocked down a barrier erected around Government House by security forces, provoking some violent incidents this evening.

The protest was called for through social media websites, shortly after news broke that the prosecutor had been found dead in his Puerto Madero apartment.

Other demonstrations also took place across the country, including outside President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's official residence in Olivos, Buenos Aires province. 

AMIA head says Nisman's decade-long work 'irreplaceable'

AMIA Jewish Community centre head Leonardo Jmelnitzky (Photo Credit: AJN)

AMIA Jewish Community centre head Leonardo Jmelnitzky expressed his regret for the death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman who was in charge of the investigation of the terrorist attack against the centre’s headquarters in 1994, which killed over 85 people.
“He had worked for ten years in the cause. It is irreplaceable,” Jmlenitsky said. “The consequences of the prosecutor’s death are not those of the death of any person,” he added in an interview with the Jewish News Agency.
“It is very difficult to find someone who can get to know the case as he did,” Jmlenitsky said.
In a press release also signed by Julio Schlosser, head of DAIA Delegation of Argentine-Israeli Associations, AMIA warned against the death of prosecutor Nisman becoming the death of the (AMIA) probe.

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US calls Argentine authorities over alleged plan to attack BA

US Deputy Secretary of State William Burns called the Argentine authorities on Wednesday in order to provide them with details regarding the alleged Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States, Department of State Victoria Nuland confirmed.
Burns briefed allied countries and their ambassadors in Washington about US suspicions that high ranking Iranian authorities were behind this plot, a suggestion that may have international ramifications. 
“Let me just say that we believe that the conspirators had other objectives, but we think that the plot has been completely dismantled,” he said during a press conference. 
US authorities announced on Tuesday that two Iranian citizens had been indicted, after being accused of plotting an assassination attempt against the Saudi ambassador to the US, Adel Al-Jubeir.
The US media reported that, among the Iranians’ potential targets was the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires. 
“Argentina was one of the countries that Deputy Secretary Burns called today,” Nuland said, and refused to provide the media present with any more details.
Argentina accused high ranking Iranian officials of being involved in the AMIA bombing that left 85 dead in 1994 in Buenos Aires. 
Argentina’s complaint has reached the UN General Assembly.
The Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires was also attacked by terrorists in 1992. 29 people were killed and over 200 were injured after an explosion outside the building.

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