Jack Carr's take on the AMIA bombing of July 18, 1994, in Buenos Aires, Argentina: 'Pistol by his side'

On the morning of July 18, 1994, a van pulled up to the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) headquarters in Buenos Aires. 

It was packed with what is suspected to be approximately 275 kilograms of fertilizer and TNT. 

The subsequent explosion destroyed the seven-story building, killed 85 people and wounded 300. 

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He was a Lebanese citizen with ties to Hezbollah.  

“Hezbollah carried it out at the direction of the Iranian regime,” said the U.S. State Department. 

In early January 2015, he accused the then-president of Argentina, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, and other top officials, of covering up Iranian involvement in the AMIA bombing in exchange for lucrative trade deals involving grain and oil with Iran. 

“The single deadliest anti-semitic attack in more than half a century, the AMIA bombing underscored Hezbollah’s global ambitions and is a clear example of Iran’s support of international terrorism,” said the U.S. State Department in a press release a few years ago in remembering the victims of the terror attack in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in July 1994. 

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“The single deadliest anti-semitic attack in more than half a century, the AMIA bombing underscored Hezbollah’s global ambitions and is a clear example of Iran’s support of international terrorism,” said the U.S. State Department in a press statement two years ago as it remembered the victims of the attack. 

“High-level Iranian government officials were directly implicated in the attack, and Hezbollah carried it out at the direction of the Iranian regime,” said then-spokesperson Ned Price in a press release in July 2022.

“While no one responsible for the attack has been brought to justice, the United States believes all Argentines deserve to have those responsible held accountable for this despicable and cowardly attack.”

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He also said, “The United States is committed to countering Hezbollah and Iran’s malign influence. The funding, training, weapons, and other support Iran provides Hezbollah support complex and heinous terrorist attacks like these.”