1994 AMIA Bombing - Official Argentinian Government Findings

Official Argentinian Government Findings

In November 2007, Interpol on behalf of the Argentinian government, published the names of six individuals officially accused for their role in the terrorist attack. They were entered in the Interpol red notice list.

  • Imad Fayez Moughnieh
  • Ali Fallahijan
  • Mohsen Rabbani
  • Ahmad Reza Asghari
  • Ahmad Vahidi
  • Mohsen Rezaee

In November 2008, Carlos Menem was called to testify in an upcoming trial over the AMIA case.

In March 2009, a former investigator in the case, Claudio Lifschitz, claimed he was abducted and tortured by men who told him not to investigate SIDE's involvement in the case.

In August 2009, BBC News reported that Ahmad Vahidi had become Iran's defense minister-designate under the 2009 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad administration, and is on Interpol's wanted list over the 1994 AMIA bombing. Vahidi led a unit of Iran's Revolutionary Guard called Quds Force at the time of the attack, and has been accused of planning the bombings. Iran dismissed this development as a "Zionist plot". On June 1, 2011, Bolivia apologized to Argentina for Ahmad Vahidi's unannounced visit to the country, and announced that he would be leaving Bolivia immediately.

On March 31, 2012, Menem was ordered to stand trial for obstruction of justice in a probe of the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center that killed 85 people. Menem is accused of helping to cover up the tracks of local accomplices of the attackers.

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