Death of a Pawn: A WMD Companion Short Story

A Note From the Authors

This piece of short fiction is based on a true story.

We first heard of Alberto Nisman the same way the rest of the world did: with his untimely and suspicious death on Sunday, January 18, 2015. First ruled a suicide, the determination of death was later changed to homicide, and a massive outcry for justice from the Argentinean people followed.

At the time, we were hip-deep in revisions to our novel, Weapons of Mass Deception. If you’ve read the book, you know that there is a Hezbollah sleeper cell, headed by Rafiq, in the Tri-Border Area of South America. Rafiq is in the TBA at the direction of his Iranian half-brother, Hashem.

WMD takes place in the present day, and Rafiq was in the TBA at exactly the same time as Alberto Nisman was killed. Even better, he was “between scenes” in our book and available for us to fabricate his involvement in this Argentinean tragedy.

As of this writing, the death of Mr. Nisman, mere hours before he was to present the findings of his investigation to the Argentinean Congress, is still unsolved. There is no shortage of people who might benefit from his demise and we list a few of them in the story: the President and her Foreign Minister, the opposition to the President and her administration, the Iranians and their subsidiary, Hezbollah. However Mr. Nisman died, one thing is clear: it is unlikely that the eighty-five victims of the 1994 AMIA bombing will ever see justice.

We have no special insight into this tragedy. In crafting “Death of a Pawn,” we chose to use fiction to show possibilities.

We leave it to you to draw your own conclusions.

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David and JR

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