Argentina seeks arrest of four Lebanese citizens in connection with 1994 AMIA bombing

Argentina is seeking an international arrest warrant for four Lebanese citizens suspected of involvement in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish centre in Buenos Aires.

The July 1994 attack resulted in the death of 85 and injured hundreds, after a truck containing explosives crashed into the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA).

The four men, Hussein Mounir Mouzannar, Ali Hussein Abdallah, Farouk Abdul Hay Omairi and Abdallah Salman, are accused of being “employees or operational agents” of the antisemitic genocidal terrorist group Hizballah, which is believed to have carried out the attack.

According to court documents, Mr Salman is suspected of “the coordination of the arrival and departure of the [Hizballah] operational group” that conducted the attack.

There have long been accusations of failure and corruption on the part of the Argentine authorities in delivering justice for the victims of the heinous AMIA bombing.

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