BUENOS AIRES. — Argentina pointed out on Friday to the Lebanese Hussein Ahmad Karaki as operational chief of the Hezbollah militia in Latin America and as a participant in two attacks more than 30 years ago against Jewish targets in Buenos Aires and announced that he has requested his international arrest.
The Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrichsaid in a press conference that Hussein Ahmad Karaki, who he said is in Lebanon, was in charge of obtaining a car bomb used in the attack on the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires in 1992 and that he would also have been involved in the blasting of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) two years later.
The official considered that Karaki is “the brain and recruiter” by the Lebanese group Hezbollah in Latin America and pointed out that the information he was giving is the result of an investigation coordinated with Brazil and Paraguay.
Hussein Ahmad Karaki operated in Argentina under the name Alberto León Naimadded the official, who specified that the government has asked the justice system to request Interpol for a red alert for his capture.
The Lebanese would have entered Argentina in January 1992. The attack on the Israeli embassy occurred on March 17 of that year.
Bullrich also pointed out the Lebanese as allegedly responsible for several attempted attacks in countries in the region, such as Brazil, in recent years.
Terrorist attacks against Jews in Argentina
The attacks on the embassy and the AMIA caused more than a hundred deaths. In different rulings over the years, the Argentine justice system has considered Iran the ideologue of the two events and Hezbollah its executing arm. That country has denied the accusations.
The Chamber of Criminal Cassation, Argentina’s highest criminal court, confirmed that Iran and the Lebanese group were involved in these terrorist acts in a ruling issued in April.
He indicated that the motivation of both “originated mainly in the unilateral decision of the Argentine government to terminate three contracts for the provision of nuclear material and technology agreed with the Islamic Republic of Iran,” due to a change in the foreign policy of the South American country between late 1991 and mid-1992.
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