Until now, unknown details emerged through a new investigation conducted by the Israeli “Mossad” into two bombings that shook the Argentine capital in the 1990s, and it became clear from it that Hezbollah is solely responsible for planning and implementing, and not Iran, according to the interrogations it conducted with Suspects, as well as surveillance and wiretapping of calls and agents, in addition to interviews conducted by the Israeli intelligence service this July with 5 of its current and retired senior officials.
One of the two attacks targeted the Israeli embassy on March 17, 1992 in Buenos Aires, killing 29 and wounding 242 others, most of them Argentine civilians, according to the displayed video. Only 4 Israelis were killed, including the consul’s wives and the embassy’s first secretary.
Then, on July 18, 1994, the second attack targeted the headquarters of the “Jewish-Argentine Solidarity Association” known as AMIA for short. Ibrahim Hussein Barro stormed it with a van packed with more than 300 kilograms of explosives, killing 85 people and wounding 300 others in what was and still is the most violent terrorist act. The country of Tango witnessed in its history.
The most important new information, according to what was concluded by a report on the investigation published yesterday, Friday, by the American newspaper “The New York Times”, and blamed “Al-Arabiya.net”, including its reading in Argentine media regarding the Mossad report as well, which is that “the attacks were carried out by a party cell, from Without the help of Argentine officials or Iranian agents in Buenos Aires,” which contradicts the results of previous investigations by Argentina, the United States and Israel, through which it indicated repeatedly, that Tehran had a practical role on the ground in the two attacks, which Tehran has always denied.
“The implementers are currently residing in Lebanon”
However, the Mossad continued not to exonerate Iran completely in its new investigation, but rather indicated that it approved and financed the two attacks, and provided training and equipment. As for the perpetrator, the party that carried them out “in retaliation for the Israeli operations once morest the Shiite militias in Lebanon,” where it used a secret infrastructure that it built for years in Buenos Aires and other places in South America to prepare and implement (..) and that the chemicals used to make bombs, were bought by a trading company he founded to cover up operations in South America.
It is also new that those responsible for the two attacks “are still alive and reside in Lebanon, and that none of them was ever brought to justice, nor was he killed in the various attacks carried out by Israel once morest Hezbollah.” Red from Interpol, which included that they were agents of the party. A third party is required for the United States. As for the movement’s operations leader, Imad Mughniyeh, who was later killed in a joint Israeli-American operation in 2008 in Damascus, Ford reminded him of the Mossad investigation that he was the head of the cell that carried out the two attacks.
According to the Mossad’s conclusion, Hezbollah sent its operatives, starting in 1988, to several countries in South America “to gain experience that allows them to open legitimate businesses and have strong commercial interfaces to move between different countries.” When Israel assassinated the leader of Hezbollah on February 16, 1992, Abbas al-Moussawi, the party’s retaliatory response was swift: he sent a prominent officer in it, Hassan Karaki, arrived in Buenos Aires with a forged Brazilian passport to Buenos Aires, and bought the van used in the embassy attack.
His arrival coincided with the arrival of the deputy commander of the Hezbollah operations unit at the time, Talal Hamiyah, who met Muhammad Noureddine, a 24-year-old Lebanese who had previously immigrated to Brazil a few years before his recruitment as a suicide bomber. Hamiyah and all of the party’s agents left Argentina the next day, and then in 2017, the United States offered $7 million for information that would enable him to become a leader of the party’s military wing.
The cell killed 12 Jews in the air
According to the Mossad investigation, the members of the party cell responsible for the bombing of the AMIA community headquarters in Buenos Aires were behind the downing of a Panamanian passenger plane the next day, killing 21 people on board, including 12 Jews, and Al Arabiya.net covered its news with an extensive investigation, when Last October, the US FBI requested information regarding a Lebanese named Ali Hage Zaki Jalil, now 53, who they suspected of being the mastermind behind its detonation.
FBI memo, regarding the Lebanese missing so far
And what was reported at the time regarding “Ali Hajj Zaki Jalil” through the FBI, that he holds Venezuelan citizenship, was a pilot and paratrooper in its Air Force, and traveled to Colombia, Costa Rica and Lebanon, and he is the candidate more than anyone else to be the friend who used the “Mazda” car rented by another Lebanese in the name of Ali Jamal Hawa, aged between 25 and 28 years old at the time of the bombing, because he is the only passenger who was not asked regarding him among the dead, and because his name was forged, and because his friend Ali Hajj Zaki Jalil, disappeared following the bombing, and for now he is still hidden without a trace.
