30 years after the attack on the Israeli embassy: what happened to the cause and why it looks like a fateless event

Details of the investigation into the first terrorist attack by Islamic fundamentalism in Argentina. In two years, there will be an attack on AMIA

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The only certainty of the Ministry of Justice regarding the attack that detonated the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires 30 years ago is that behind the bomb was a group of terrorists known as Islamic Jihad, the armed group Hezbollah. Two arrest warrants ordered by the Supreme Court of Lebanon in 2015 for Hussein Mohammed Ibrahim Suleiman and José Salman El Laida of Colombia, and a series of recommendations from abroad, became the last step recorded in a case that has never been arrested. As time goes on, it seems more and more difficult to move forward.

All of this happened 30 years ago. At 1447 hours on 17 March 1992, an explosion occurred in a building on 916th Street in Arroyo, where the headquarters of the Embassy of Israel is located. Police initially spoke of 29 deaths, but only identified 22 deaths, including 9 embassy employees and 9 officials, 3 masons and 2 plumbers, taxi drivers and 3 pedestrians, clergy from a neighbouring church and 3 elderly people living in a residence a few metres away. Their names were depicted on a plaque on the dry square where they grew up at the scene of the attack.

This is a shipment of vans with a fireplace behind a Ford F 100 van and a Trinitrottoluene that exploded in a building set up by the Supreme Court in late 1999. The van was parked in the parking lot of the Dakota AG Cerritos between Junkal and Arroyo. At the time of the explosion, the vehicle passed through Arroyo and exploded on the sidewalk upon arrival at the Embassy. Rescuers who came to the area but didn't understand what happened said more than once, “It was the scene of a war.” Argentina entered the world terrorist arena, and two years later, with an almost traceable attack, another bomb would end AMIA headquarters and 85 lives.

The Supreme Court was brought before the Supreme Court because of its foreign influence. At the time, President Ricardo Levine of the Court was in charge of the investigation and entrusted Detective Minister Alfredo Bisoldi on a mission until he became a judge of the then new National Criminal Sabotage Tribunal in 1992. As in the case of AMIA, the embassy is undergoing renovation.

However, the court dismissed the idea of a rupture, which approved the hypothesis based on a vehicle bomb in the crater in front of the collapsed building, the discovery of various parts of the van engine, and other statements.

In February 1992, several telegrams from the Argentine Embassy in Lebanon recorded traces of the armed forces of Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, which referred to the effects of the violent death of Hizbullah Minister Abbas Musawi, as explained by the Supreme Court itself and former criminal secretary Estevan Canebari.

The court published a request in the newspaper “An Nahar” in Beirut, Lebanon, confirming that the group itself claimed responsibility for the case. In addition, the news was confirmed by a statement issued by an Argentine diplomat in the country the day after the incident.

In this regard, under the old Code of Criminal Procedure, the Supreme Court tried Imad Mughniya h for an investigation and ordered an international arrest. According to information provided by the United States Department of State, the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany and SIDE, Mugonia was responsible for Hezbollah's central and external security forces and for Islamic Jihad at the time of the attack.

The investigation deepened links between Hezbollah and suspects allegedly engaged in commercial activities in the so-called “tri-state border” area. Even in the case of the AMIA attack, Samuel Salman El Radar Radar, who was under investigation, appeared.

According to the Embassy case, in 1992, his brother José Salman El Radar Radar was arrested and charged by the Federal Court of Rosario for kidnapping a large amount of counterfeit money known as “super dollars” to finance terrorist activities. The Supreme Court also ordered the occupation of José Salman El Radar.

At the time, another clue uncovered during the investigation of SIDE's study pointed to reports from intelligence agencies in other countries: Hizbullah's operational agent Hussein Mohammed Ibrahim Suleiman was arrested in the Kingdom of Jordan in June 2001 and traveled to São Paulo in 1991 and reported that in early 1992 he had received explosives transported by bus from Foz do Iguaçu to Argentina. , these explosives were used to attack the Israeli Embassy. Transactions were made with various security forces to confirm this information. The information was published, appeals were made to other countries, and then traded to intelligence agencies. The version is uncertain.

In the AMIA case, prominent witness “C” was unrecognizable when referring to Jafar Sadat Ahmed Niah, who was designated as the Iranian diplomat responsible for the logistics of terrorist acts. From 8 June 1991 to 28 December 1993, he served as a civilian officer at the Iranian Embassy in Brazil. These indications suggest that he visited Argentina between March 16 and 18, 1992, but ultimately denied the news.

In 2006, the father of Carlos Susevich, one of the victims who died today, came out as the complainant and asked him to declare the crime indescribable. The court rejected this claim but reiterated that the case would continue to be made public while searching for suspects. On December 20, 2006, he reiterated the international arrest warrants for Imad Mugña and José Salman El Radar.

According to news reports, Mugonia reportedly died in a car bomb explosion in the Damascus attack on February 12, 2008. His death was confirmed by a copy of the death certificate sent by Interpol to UFI AMIA, which was later submitted to the embassy case.

After the death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman in 2015, the status of the case became important when President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner publicly asked what state the file was in. Today, at the request of Vice President Ricardo Lorenzetti, the then President of the Supreme Court, Ricardo Lorenzetti

The term “res judicada” indicated that the case was closed, but a few days later, the Judicial Information Center (ICJ) issued an explanation explaining the circumstances of the case and confirming that the investigation was still ongoing. Six months later, the court again occupied El Leda Leda and ordered the international occupation of Hussein Mohammed Ibrahim Suleiman. In addition, while investigating the first terrorist attack signed by the CFK, he demanded that the files of the former SIDE be declassified.

Since then, no further progress has been made in the investigation of the embassy attack. There is a sense of punishment around survivors. Today, the victims will be remembered in a new tribute ceremony that will once again call for justice.

The victims of this attack were:

Rescano de Albarracin in Escorina, Argentina. I live in San Francisco de Assis House.

Alia de Aegia Celia Heydi.Argentina。 )

Valdelomar Exhaustion, Carlos Wackler. Argentina from Bolivia.

Ben Rafael, David Joel, Israeli diplomat, embassy secretary counselor. Married with two kids.

Ben Jib, Eli, Israeli diplomat, not a member of the embassy. Married with two kids.

Berenstein of Supaniki, Beatrice Monica, Argentina. I'm married to a daughter. The administrative staff of the embassy.

Hayes, Juan Carlos Argentinian. Admira Bilis, pastor of the church.

Cacciato, Juan.Argentine.Argentine.Ford Falcon is located in the area of Santa Lucia。

Karmon, Elio Raisrael. Counselor's wife and consulate Danny Carmon. A mother of five. The administrative staff of the embassy.

Droblas, Marcela Judis Argentina. Embassy executives. (Minister of Culture, Rafael Eldad)

Elloson, Andrew. Argentinian. pedestrians

Rancieri Ronacci, Michelangelo. URUGUAY. pedestrians.

Regizamon Hannibal. Paraguay. plumbers

Machado Castro, Alfred Oscar. Argentina from Bolivia. bricklayer.

Machado Castro, Freddy Lamberto. BOLIVIA. bricklayer.

Mandarini, Francisco. In Italian. plumber.

Meyers, Francisca Eva Elisa, Argentina. I live in San Francisco de Assis House.

Quirin, Alexis Alexander. Argentinian. pedestrians

Saienz, Mirta Argentina. Embassy administrators. (Secretary of Dr. Iztak Sheffie)

Sherman of Intrauv, Rachel Argentina. Embassy executives.

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