A memorial to the victims of the 1994 AMIA bombing. (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)
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The US Treasury on Friday sanctioned a senior Hezbollah member Salman Raouf Salman, charging that he was responsible for organizing the deadly July 18, 1994 bombing of the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina building in Buenos Aires in which 85 people were killed.
The State Department also targeted Salman, offering up to $7,000,000 to those who can identify or locate him.
“Today’s action underscores that Hezbollah is first and foremost a terrorist organization, despite its attempts to falsely portray itself as a legitimate political entity,” the Treasury said.
Prior to the 2001 attack on the Twin Towers in New York, the terrorist group Hezbollah was responsible for the most amount of American deaths, the Treasury said.
“This action also highlights Hezbollah’s ongoing operational presence in the Western Hemisphere” where it poses a threat and targets civilians, the Treasury. It pledged that the US would work with Argentina and others in the region.
It’s important to “ensure that Hezbollah operatives can never disassociate themselves from their terrorist actions, and to prevent them from carrying out new attacks that enable Iran’s malign agenda,” the Treasury said.
In speaking of the AMIA attack almost 25-years ago to the day, the Treasury said that Salman had “provided all necessary support to perpetrate the terrorist attack against the AMIA building, coordinating the activities of the Hezbollah attack squad in Buenos Aires.”
Salman had maintained “communication with Hezbollah leaders in Lebanon and the operations logistics command center in the Tri-Border Area,” the Treasury said.
Salman was the handler for U.S.designated Mohammed Hamdar. Peruvian counter-terrorism police arrested Hamdar in October 2014 for planning a terrorist operation in Peru, the Treasury said.
Police raided his home and found “traces of explosives, detonators, and other flammable substances, and a search of the garbage outside his home found chemicals used to manufacture explosives, the Treasury said.
It charged that Hamdar had targeted places associated with Israelis and the Jewish community in Peru. After his arrested Hamdar identified Salman as his handler, the Treasury said.
It further charged that Salman is responsible for terrorists attacks outside of Lebanon.
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