1992 Buenos Aires Israeli embassy bombing

Suicide bombing in Argentina yes January 2012 Attack on the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires Spillover of the South Lebanon conflict (1985–2000) Buenos Aires, Argentina 250px 7pxThe attack site 34 35 30 S 58 22 49 W inline 17 March 1992 Israeli embassy 14:42 UTC−3 Suicide bombing 29 victims(4 Israeli civiliansand 25 Argentine civilians) and the suicide bomber 242 civilians Islamic Jihad Organization claimed responsibilityHezbollah operative Imad Mughniyah charged by ArgentinaHezbollah operative Amer Mohamed Akil Rada The attack on the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires was a suicide bombing attack on the building of the Israeli embassy of Argentina, located in Buenos Aires, which was carried out on 17 March 1992. 29 civilians were killed in the attack and 242 additional civilians were injured. The attack 200px|thumbnail|left|Former Israeli Embassy before the attack. On 17 March 1992, at 2:42 pm (UTC−3), a pick-up truck driven by a suicide bomber and loaded with explosives smashed into the front of the Israeli Embassy located on the corner of Arroyo and Suipacha and detonated. The embassy, a Catholic church, and a nearby school building were destroyed. Four Israelis died, but most of the victims were Argentine civilians, many of them children.Bergman, 171. The blast killed 29 and wounded 242.https://fas.org/irp/threat/terror_92/review.html 1992 Global Terrorism: The Year in Review May 18, 2016 It was Argentina's deadliest terror attack until the 1994 AMIA bombing and it remains the deadliest attack on an Israeli diplomatic mission. Fatalities Priest Juan Carlos Brumana was one of the people killed in the suicide bombing. He died in the Catholic Church Mater Admirabilis that is in front of the embassy.Calderon Horacio Winds of War in the Levant and Middle East The Hariri and AMIA cases http://edoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/HALCoRe_derivate_00005278/CAEI_14_2.pdf CAEI 20 July 2012 Working Papers 14February 2018 InternetArchiveBot yes Among the dead there were two Israeli women who were the wives of the embassy's consul and first secretary. Responsibility A group called Islamic Jihad Organization, which has been linked to Iran and possibly Hezbollah,https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/tehran/interviews/baer.html Interviews - Robert Baer - Terror And Tehran - FRONTLINE - PBS PBS May 2, 2002 May 18, 2016 claimed responsibility; their stated motive for the attack was Israel's assassination of Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayed Abbas al-Musawi in February 1992.Long William R. Islamic Jihad Says It Bombed Embassy; Toll 21 https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-03-19-mn-5905-story.html 23 July 2012 Los Angeles Times 19 March 1992 Islamic Jihad also released surveillance footage they took of the embassy before the blast. After the bombing, Israel sent investigators to Argentina to search for clues. They learned that the bombers planned the attack in the Tri-Border area, where the borders of Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil meet and which has a large Muslim population.Bergman, 172. Messages intercepted by the American National Security Agency revealed Iranian knowledge of the impending attack, as well as the complicity of Hezbollah operative Imad Mughniyah. In fact, Mughniyah was formally charged by Argentina with participating in the bombings of the Israeli embassy. In May 1998, Moshen Rabbani (the Cultural Attaché in the Iranian Embassy in Argentina until December 1997) was detained in Germany, and the Argentine government expelled seven Iranian diplomats from the country, stating that it had "convincing proof" of Iranian involvement in the bombing. However, none of the suspects were prosecuted. The attack occurred when Iran and Argentina were hoping for a resumption of nuclear cooperation, although Argentina had announced the suspension of the shipments of nuclear materials to Iran a couple months before the bombing.Argentina's Iranian nuke connection, Gareth Porter, 15 November 2006 A number of sourcesRanstorp Magnus Hizb'allah in Lebanon: The Politics of the Western Hostage Crisis New York St. Martins Press 1997 107 0-312-16288-X registration https://archive.org/details/hizballahinleban00rans/page/107United States Department of State, April 2005 https://web.archive.org/web/20060725231131/http://library.nps.navy.mil/home/tgp/hizbalah.htm July 25, 2006 report on Hezbollah involvement with the assistance of Syria. Hezbollah denies these claims.http://www.lebanon.com/news/local/2003/3/20.htm Lebanon.com Newswire - Local News March 20 2003 May 18, 2016 In 1999, the Argentine government issued an arrest warrant for Imad Mughniyah in connection with this attack and the 1994 AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires, which killed 85. It is suspected that the two attacks are linked.Norton, Augustus Richard, Hezbollah: A Short History, Princeton University Press, 2007, p.79 In 2023, the United States sanctioned Hezbollah operative Amer Mohamed Akil Rada, who was active in Latin America for over a decade, for his reported role in this attack and the 1994 AMIA bombing.Treasury Designates Hizballah Operatives and Financial Facilitators in South America and Lebanon https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1726 U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control 14 September 2023 2023-09-12 In April 2024, Argentina's second highest court ruled that the Iranian government was responsible for the bombing, and that it was carried out in retaliation for Argentina reneging on agreements to transfer nuclear material to Iran. The ruling also characterized Iran as a terrorist state.Argentine Court Says Iran Was Behind Israeli Embassy and Jewish Center Attacks The New York Times 12 April 2024 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/12/world/middleeast/argentina-iran-1992-1994-attack.html 14 April 2024 13 April 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240413210309/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/12/world/middleeast/argentina-iran-1992-1994-attack.html live Politi Daniel Aftermath section March 2017 Kirchner on the case When he was president, Néstor Kirchner pronounced that allowing these two incidents to happen, with no real inquiries to be followed, equalled a "national disgrace".Terror, død og diplomati http://www.dagbladet.no/magasinet/2003/08/28/377100.html 4 March 2013 Dagbladet 18 July 1994 He reopened, and kept open files from these incidents, most to be read by Justice Juan Jose Galeano. In the same process Kirchner hoped to lift the ban for former Intelligence Officers (Argentine) to testify. A former president of Argentina (his widow, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner) also claimed that she wanted to get to the bottom of the case.March 2010 Argentinian federal prosecutor, Alberto Nisman, was assigned to investigate the bombing, but one day before he was scheduled to report on his findings, he was found dead in his home on 18 January 2015.Diaz Shlomi In Argentina they have confirmed: Alberto Nisman's Death a Homicide 19 he Israel Hayom 28 December 2017 Commemoration Today there is a memorial set up in place of where the building stood. In the memorial plaza stand twenty one trees and seven benches in memory of the victims. A plaque describing the event and listing the victims is located in the memorial in both Hebrew and Spanish.October 2009 See also Argentina Judaism 1994 London Israeli Embassy bombing Alas Chiricanas Flight 901, the bombing of a Panamanian plane, whose casualties included 12 Jews, the day after the AMIA bombing, suspected to have been carried out by Hezbollah Argentina–Israel relations History of the Jews in Argentina List of unsolved murders (1980–1999) Secretariat of Intelligence Terrorism in Argentina 2026 attack on Israeli consulate in Turkey References 2 Sources Bergman, Ronen. The Secret War with Iran: The 30-Year Clandestine Struggle Against the World's Most Dangerous Terrorist Power. 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