Argentina will put out an Interpol red alert on a man alleged to be Hezbollah’s leader in South America and accused of planning the 1994 Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) bombing in Buenos Aires, its defence minister said on Friday.
In addition to the AMIA bombing, which left 85 people dead, Hussein Ahmad Karaki is also accused of being behind the 1992 Israeli Embassy bombing, in which 29 people were killed, Patricia Bullrich said on Friday.
“We are going to ask for [an Interpol] red alert for this criminal who is currently in Lebanon,” Bullrich said at a press conference, according to the Buenos Aires Herald. Karaki was also responsible for “at least three attempted attacks in Peru, Bolivia and Brazil in recent years,” she said.
Karaki is Hezbollah’s main officer in Latin America, according to the defence minister. He has evaded authorities in multiple Latin American countries by using aliases, sometimes thanks to help from Venezuela’s far-left dictatorship, she added.
