(JTA) Uriel Heilman - Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman, 51, was found dead from a gunshot wound to the head just hours before he was to present evidence to Argentina's congress that implicated his country's president and foreign minister in a nefarious cover-up scheme to whitewash Tehran's role in the 1994 AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires which killed 85 people. While officials connected to President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner said evidence pointed to suicide, the prosecutor investigating Nisman's death, Viviana Fein, said no traces of gunpowder were found on Nisman's hand and there was no suicide note. Among Argentina's 200,000 Jews, Nisman, who also was Jewish, was seen as a crusading hero. On Sunday night, thousands gathered outside the presidential palace to protest Nisman's death, with some holding aloft signs reading "Cristina murderer." Rabbi Sergio Bergman, a Jewish leader and member of Argentina's congress, called Nisman "victim 86 of the AMIA attack." Nisman told a TV interviewer last week, "With Nisman around or not, the evidence is there."
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