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Whereas failure to duly punish the culprits of these acts 
serves to reward terrorists and help spread terrorism 
throughout the Western Hemisphere; 
Whereas under President Nestor Kirchner’s order, 14 current 
and former members of the intelligence agency will be re-
lieved of their responsibility to retain ‘‘State secrecy’’ in 
the case, and will be free to testify on the ongoing crimi-
nal trial for the first time; 
Whereas substantial evidence attributes the attack on July 
18, 1994, to the terrorist group Hizballah, based in Leb-
anon and sponsored by Iran; 
Whereas the Argentine judge hearing the AMIA case has 
issued international arrest warrants for four Iranian gov-
ernment officials believed to have been involved in plan-
ning or carrying out the attack against the AMIA; 
Whereas those indicted include Imad Mugniyeh, who report-
edly works for Iran’s Ministry of Information and Secu-
rity (MOIS) and lives in Iran; Mohsen Rabbani, a cul-
tural attache at the Iranian Embassy in Argentina; Barat 
Ali Balesh-Abadi, an Iranian Diplomat; Ali Akbar 
Parvaresh, a former education minister; and Ali 
Fallahian, the former MOIS minister; 
Whereas evidence indicates that the tri-border region where 
Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil meet was used to chan-
nel resources for the purpose of carrying out the AMIA 
attack by terrorists linked with Iran; 
Whereas on March 17, 1992, terrorists bombed the Embassy 
of Israel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, killing 29 persons 
and injuring more than 200 others, and the Government 
of Argentina has not yet brought anyone to justice for 
that act of terrorism;
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Whereas according to the 2003 Patterns of Global Terrorism, 
the tri-border region has long been depicted as a regional 
nucleus for fundraising activities, arms and drug traf-
ficking, contraband smuggling, document and currency 
fraud, money laundering, and the manufacture and move-
ment of pirated goods by terrorists linked with Iran; 
Whereas the State Department’s report Patterns of Global 
Terrorism 2001 identifies Lebanese-based terrorist orga-
nization Hizballah, as well as other terrorist groups, in 
the tri-border area of Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay, 
‘‘where terrorists raise millions of dollars annually via 
criminal enterprises.’’; 
Whereas such report states that ‘‘[t]here is evidence of the 
presence of Hizballah members or sympathizers in other 
areas of Latin America as well: In northern Chile, espe-
cially around Iquique; in Maicao, Colombia, near the bor-
der with Venezuela; on Margarita Island in Venezuela; 
and in Panama’s Colon Free Trade Zone’’; 
Whereas agents from Argentina’s intelligence agency have re-
ported to the United States that operatives from al-Qaida 
were based in the Tri-Border region, and the agents 
noted that suspected terrorists had passed through the 
area, among them was a member of Gammaa al-Islamiya, 
a terrorist cell tied to al-Qaida; 
Whereas United States Deputy Secretary of State Richard 
Armitage testified on September 19, 2002, before a joint 
hearing on Iraq of the Permanent Select Committee on 
Intelligence of the House of Representatives and the Se-
lect Committee on Intelligence of the Senate that 
Hizballah now has a capacity similar to al-Qaida to at-
tack the United States and that Hizballah is present in 
South America;
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Whereas the State Department’s annual report, Patterns of 
Global Terrorism 2003, notes that while Latin America 
has not been the focal point in the war on terrorism, 
countries in the region have struggled with domestic ter-
rorism for decades and international terrorist groups 
have at times used the region as a battleground to ad-
vance their causes; 
Whereas police in Asuncion, Paraguay, have arrested a rel-
ative of Assad Barakat, the Chief of Hizballah in South 
America, with almost five pounds of cocaine hidden in an 
electric piano that he allegedly intended to smuggle into 
Syria; 
Whereas the Caribbean is a strategic paradise for terrorist 
organizations, given its established web for drugs, arms 
contraband, and money laundering; 
Whereas the Department of State includes Cuba in its list of 
seven states sponsoring terrorism and Cuba maintains 
close relations with countries that sponsor terrorism and 
has given safe haven to members of European terrorist 
groups; 
Whereas terrorist organizations may be involved in money 
laundering as a means of hiding their financial assets 
and in light of that information, as of June 2003, several 
nations in the region—Guatemala, St. Vincent, and the 
Grenadines—were identified by the Financial Action 
Task Force (FATF) as non-cooperative countries in the 
fight against money laundering;
Whereas much of the Western Hemisphere, from Canada to 
Tierra del Fuego, is ideal for international terrorist 
groups to establish bases due to the ill equipped and 
poorly trained security agencies across the region;
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Whereas according to the Department of State’s March 2003 
International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, 14 na-
tions in South America and the Caribbean are jurisdic-
tions of primary concern to the United States because of 
their vulnerability to money laundering, while many na-
tions in the region are characterized as jurisdictions of 
concern; 
Whereas the fight against terrorism must remain a top pri-
ority. Nowhere is this more true than in America’s back 
yard; 
Whereas according to Mr. Miguel Toma, who directs the Ar-
gentine equivalent to the Central Intelligence Agency 
(CIA), ‘‘there is a direct correlation between terrorism 
here [in South America] and the United States’’; 
Whereas Mr. Toma has met with United States intelligence 
officials to discuss the possibility of a new terrorist offen-
sive launched from Latin America; 
Whereas al-Qaida’s desire to bring the battle to the United 
States would make the proximity of Latin America all the 
more appealing; 
Whereas cooperation is indispensable for success in the war 
on terrorism; 
Whereas it is in the best interest of the region to live up to 
the Declaration by the Organization of American States 
on September 21, 2001, ‘‘Individually and collectively, we 
will deny terrorist groups the capacity to operate in this 
Hemisphere. This American family stands United;’’; and 
Whereas it is the long standing policy of the United States 
to stand firm against terrorist attacks wherever and 
whenever they occur and to work with its allies to ensure 
that justice is done: Now, therefore, be it
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Resolved, That the House of Representatives—
(1) reiterates its condemnation of the attack on 
the AMIA Jewish Community Center in Buenos 
Aires, Argentina on July 18, 1994, and honors the 
victims of this heinous act; 
(2) strongly urges the Government of Argentina 
to further fulfill its international obligations and its 
promise to the Argentine people by pursuing the 
local and international connections to this act of ter-
rorism, wherever it may lead, and to properly punish 
all those who are involved; 
(3) 
welcomes 
Argentine 
President 
Nestor 
Kirchner’s political will to pursue the investigation 
of the bombing of the AMIA Jewish Community 
Center to its ultimate conclusions; 
(4) calls on the President of the United States 
to raise this issue in bilateral discussions with Ar-
gentine officials and to underscore the United States 
concern regarding the past delay in the resolution of 
this case; 
(5) recommends that the President of the 
United States create more mechanisms for intra-re-
gional information sharing and, where needed, joint 
counter-terrorism operations;