(JTA) Antonio "Jaime" Stiuso, the former operations chief of Argentina's Intelligence Secretariat (SI), on Tuesday accused the government of former President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner of being responsible for the death of AMIA bombing prosecutor Alberto Nisman on Jan. 18, 2015. The Argentine media reported that Stiuso said Nisman's death "was intimately linked with the complaint that he made" accusing the Kirchner government of deciding to "not incriminate" former senior officials of Iran and trying to "erase" their roles in planning the bombing. Stiuso had assisted Nisman in the investigation into the 1994 attack on the Buenos Aires Jewish center, which left 85 dead and hundreds wounded. According to Stiuso, Nisman was murdered for not stopping the investigation, as Kirchner had requested. "She decided to negotiate the pact with Iran and ordered the SI to stop providing evidence or information to the AMIA case," Stiuso reportedly said.
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