STOP NATO: ”NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Get a low APR NextCard Visa in 30 seconds! 1. Fill in the brief application 2. Receive approval decision within 30 seconds 3. Get rates as low as 2.99% Intro or 9.99% Ongoing APR and no annual fee! Apply NOW! http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/NextCard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [If anyone still believes this wasn't coordinated by the United States, just like Iran-Contragate and Iran-Bosnia, someone has a bridge to sell them - in Brooklyn or Buenos Aires.] Wednesday June 6 10:00 AM ET Menem's Ex-Army Chief Held in Argentine Arms Probe BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (Reuters) - Former Argentine President Carlos Menem's ex-army chief Martin Balza was detained on Wednesday by a judge investigating illegal arms sales to Croatia and Ecuador in the 1990s, Balza's family said. ``My father is under arrest,““ Ines Balza, the popular general“s daughter, told reporters. Balza ran the army during Menem's 1989-99 presidency. Menem is due to testify on Thursday as a suspected organizer of an ''illicit association'' to sell Argentine rifles, cannons, shells and gunpowder to Croatia in 1991 and 1993, violating a U.N. arms embargo, and Ecuador in 1995 during a war with Peru. Menem's ex-brother-in-law and one of his former ministers have also been detained in two parallel federal court investigations. If convicted of organizing the arms deal, they face three to 10 years in jail. Balza, widely respected in Argentina for an historic ``mea culpa““ in 1995 for the army“s role in human rights crimes during a 1976-1983 dictatorship, was detained at a federal court and taken to an army jail at the Campo de Mayo barracks outside Buenos Aires, said his lawyer Manuel Omar Lozano. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
