Argentine Judge Calls for Arrest of Four Lebanese Citizens Connected to Hezbollah for Questioning in 1994 AMIA Bombing
- A federal judge in Argentina suspects that the individuals are collaborators or operational agents of the armed wing of Hezbollah.
- Argentine prosecutors allege that Iranian officials used Hezbollah to carry out the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center that killed 85 people.
- Most of the Lebanese citizens being sought have ties to a region connecting Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay that the US believes is a hub for terrorism financing.
- The judge has called on Interpol to detain the four individuals, who include a Paraguayan national, a naturalized Brazilian citizen, and a person believed to be living in Beirut.
- The judge seeks to question the individuals in connection with the deadly 1994 attack.