The Argentine Government this Friday identified Hussein Ahmad Karaki as the operational head of the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah in Latin America, requested his international capture and affirmed that it was he who bought the car bomb used for the attack on the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires in 1992. .
In a press conference, the Argentine Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, described Karaki as “the brain and recruiter of Hezbollah in Latin America” and highlighted that “he was the one who bought and prepared the van that exploded at the Israeli Embassy.” in Argentina, an attack that resulted in the death of 29 people.
Bullrich also highlighted that Karaki, who would have operated in the region with documents from Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela, is currently in Lebanon, the country where he was born, and revealed that the information announced this Friday is the result of a joint investigation with others. countries in the region.
«We want it to be known who Karaki is, we want the Argentine people to know that Karaki was behind the attacks on the Embassy, that he was the one who bought the car bomb at the Embassy, and that he was the operational head, in direct line with ( Hasan) Nasralá, who was killed a few weeks ago in Lebanon, and who received the direct order to attack the AMIA as well,” the minister added, also linking Karaki to the attack against the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) in 1994, in which 85 people died.
Although Bullrich did not provide more information about the role of Hezbollah’s alleged operational chief in the region in that second attack, a report from the Israeli intelligence service Mossad placed Karaki as the alleged commander of that operation.
Mossad had knowledge of Karaki
In that report, widely disseminated by the Argentine and international press in 2022, the Israeli intelligence agency
(Mosad) had already pointed to Karaki as the person in charge of purchasing the Ford F-100 truck used for the attack against the Israeli Embassy.
Although Hezbollah, considered terrorist by the EU and several other countries, has been pointed out by various investigations as responsible for the attacks against the Israeli Embassy and the AMIA, both cases remain open in the Argentine Justice, which, in addition, maintains arrest warrants. arrest of several former Iranian officials for the attack on the Jewish mutual society.
Bullrich also noted that Karaki was behind a series of attempted attacks in Latin America in recent years, including one in Colombia in 2021 and another in Bolivia against Israeli businessmen using a car bomb.
In addition, he mentioned that the most recent attempted attack in which he was involved took place in Peru in March of this year and added that the Federal Police of Brazil, in collaboration with Argentina, thwarted an operation against facilities of the Jewish community in 2023 and a second against a businessman.
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