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The Men Responsible for the AMIA Bombing in Buenos Aires Are Known and Still at Large
(Mosaic) Matthew Levitt - As Avi Weiss has documented, the devastating July 1994 bombing of the AMIA building in Buenos Aires was the largest single attack "against a Jewish community in the Diaspora since the Holocaust," leaving 85 dead and hundreds wounded. Argentine prosecutors concluded: "The decision to carry out the AMIA attack was made, and the attack was orchestrated, by the highest officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran at the time, and...these officials instructed Lebanese Hizbullah - a group that has historically been subordinated to the economic and political interests of the Tehran regime - to carry out the attack." Despite the publication of three detailed reports on the AMIA bombing itself, on the role of Hizbullah, and on Iranian agents in Argentina, not one of the key suspects has been apprehended. Indeed, several individuals who were personally involved in the AMIA bombing have since been promoted to senior positions within the Iranian government or Hizbullah. Those who executed the AMIA bombing 25 years ago continue to oversee international terrorist operations today. The writer, a former FBI and Treasury Department official, directs the program on counterterrorism and intelligence at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.