Active

Terror organization: Hezbollah;

Status: Was an operative in unit 910, (no information if he is an operative today as well);

Role: He was the one who brought the detonators to Argentina from Brazil for the attacks in Buenos Aires at the Israeli embassy in 1992, and at the AMIA building of the Jewish community in 1994. He brought them in packages of chocolates and bottles of shampoo while he was flying in a commercial flight;

At the end of 1991 –after a stay of almost a month in Argentina –, Hussein Karaki – Hezbollah commander in Latin America, asked Hussein Suleiman Abu-Abbas to return to the triple border to an operational safe house in Foz de Iguazu, where he would receive several hidden explosives, which he would have to transfer to Buenos Aires.

Abu-Abbas did so, and received from Karaki the explosives mentioned – around 3.4 kg of TNT and C4, Abu-Abbas took these explosives with him on a normal commercial flight from Sao Paulo to Buenos Aires.

Abu-Abbas that was arrested in Jordan in 2001, confessed about his role in Argentina towards Israeli intelligence investigators. Abu-Abbas mentioned he hid the detonators in Centenario Park, before the attack on the Embassy. These detonators (C4 and TNT) were not the explosives – between 200 and 400 kilos of Ammonal – that were used in the terrorist attack on the diplomatic headquarters.

Location: Lebanon (estimated);

Born: 1960;

Place of Birth: EL KHAIM;

Gender: Male;

Nationality: Lebanon;

Known also as: Hussein Suleiman; Hussein Suleiman Abu-Abbas, Mohammad Ibrahin Suleiman Abu Abbas;

Activities:
Argentina’s Supreme Court of Justice issued an international arrest warrant against Hussein Mohamad Ibrahim Suleiman, a Hezbollah member who is being investigated for his involvement in the 1992 attack against the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires.

The attack, which came two years before the bombing of Jewish organization AMIA in Buenos Aires, killed 22 people and injured more than 200. The court on Thursday also reiterated the warrant to arrest Jose Salman El Reda Reda, also as a suspect in the deadly attack.

Suleiman was arrested in Jordan in 2001 and confessed that in 1991 he traveled to Sao Paulo, Brazil, later transporting to Buenos Aires the explosives used in the deadly blast.

The ruling from Argentina’s highest court said, “Since 2005, this Court has been investigating Hussein Mohamad Ibrahim Suleiman as an operative agent of the Hezbollah terrorist organization and a member of the Islamic Jihad.”

The ruling added that: “Recently, in September, 2015, the Israel Embassy in Buenos Aires, through the Foreign Affairs Ministry, confirmed the information and thus the international arrest warrant was issued on the named.”