Buenos Aires: Four Lebanese citizens have been detained by Interpol at the request of an Argentine federal judge so they can be interrogated about their alleged involvement in the bombing of the AMIA Jewish community centre in 1994, which resulted in the deaths of 85 people.
Judge Daniel Rafecas stated in a decision dated June 13 that "regarding these individuals, there are well-founded suspicions that they are collaborators or operational agents of the... armed wing of Hezbollah."
Prosecutors in Argentina have long claimed that the deadly attack was carried out by Hezbollah, a militant organisation with ties to Lebanon. Iran has consistently denied having any part in the incident.
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Hezbollah is recognised as a terrorist group by both the US and Argentina.
The majority of the Lebanese nationals that Rafecas is currently looking for have connections to the shaky tri-border area that connects Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay and that the US has long claimed serves as a hub for the financing of terrorism.
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Hussein Mounir Mouzannar, who has a Paraguayan national ID and may be residing in Paraguay or Brazil, as well as Farouk Abdul Hay Omairi, a naturalised Brazilian citizen whose last known address was on the Brazilian side of the tri-border region, have both been called for detention by Rafecas.
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The other two people wanted for questioning are Abdallah Salman, who is thought to reside in Beirut, and Ali Hussein Abdallah, a Brazilian citizen by naturalisation who also holds a passport from Paraguay.