Terror organization: Hezbollah;

Status: A senior member at Hezbollah’s special unit 910, commander of the Latin America region during the two terror attacks in Argentina at the 90’s. Karaki was the operational commander from a “safe house” in Foz du Iguazu, Brazil;

Role: Hussein Ahmad Karaki, better known by his operational nicknames “Saad Ezzeddine, Rami” and “Abu-Ali”, was one of the key logistics members who carried out the attack against the AMIA.

Karaki was the commander of the operation. Karaki entered Argentina at the beginning of July 1994, from Foz de Iguazu, to perpetrate the attack on AMIA. He arrived at “Aeroparque Jorge Newbery” (airport close to Buenos Aires) with a Brazilian passport with the pseudonym of Lean Alberto Nain. In addition, Karaki was the one who commanded the operational cell from a “safe house” in the Triple Frontier, accompanied by his deputy Khaled Mohammed Kassem.

Karaki also played an important role in the attack on the Israeli Embassy, 1992. Karaki oversaw buying the Ford F-100 truck at a car dealership located at Juan B. Justo 7537. To acquire the vehicle, he used a photocopy of a Brazilian document number 34031567, in the name of Da Luz Elias Ribeiro.;

He is one of the key figures, if not the key figure of Hezbollah in the Latin American region.

Location: Unknown;

Known also as: Husein Ahmad Karaki; Hassan Karaki;