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The bombing of a Jewish group centre killed 85 folks, and Hezbollah has been accused of different assaults in Argentina.

The United States has charged an alleged Hezbollah member, Samuel Salman El Reda, with giving materials assist to a “terrorist group”, accusing him of offering help for a 1994 bombing in Argentina.

Federal prosecutors introduced fees in opposition to the 58-year-old on Wednesday, linking El Reda to the truck bombing of the AMIA Jewish group centre in Buenos Aires, which killed 85 folks.

“This indictment serves as a message to those who engage in acts of terror: that the Justice Department’s memory is long, and we will not relent in our efforts to bring them to justice,” Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen of the US Department of Justice’s National Security Division stated in a press launch.

The US has lengthy characterised the 1994 bombing for example of the far attain of the Iran-backed group Hezbollah, which on the time of the bombing was locked in a lethal battle with Israeli forces occupying southern Lebanon.

Iran and Hezbollah denied accountability for the assault, which despatched shockwaves by way of the town’s Jewish group. Small commemorative tiles with the names of these killed can nonetheless be seen on sidewalks round Buenos Aires.

US authorities stated El Reda, a twin Lebanese-Colombian citizen, has helped coordinate the actions of Hezbollah’s Islamic Jihad Organization in South America, Asia and Lebanon since not less than 1993.

The assertion from the Justice Department stated El Reda relies in Lebanon and “remains at large”. The US Department of State sanctioned him in 2019 and provided $7m for info concerning his whereabouts.

The bombing stays a supply of controversy in Argentina, the place former President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has been accused of working to protect the perpetrators of the assault by way of a joint investigation with Iran, which helped discovered and nurture Hezbollah.

Argentina has additionally accused Hezbollah of finishing up a 1992 assault on the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, which killed 29 folks. The nation froze Hezbollah’s belongings and branded it a “terrorist organisation” in 2019.