IV 
108TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 469 
Condemning the attack on the AMIA Jewish Community Center in Buenos 
Aires, Argentina, in July 1994 and expressing the concern of the United 
States regarding the continuing, decade-long delay in the resolution of 
this case. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 6, 2004 
Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN (for herself, Mr. LANTOS, Mr. PENCE, Mr. SHERMAN, 
Mr. CROWLEY, Mr. ACKERMAN, Ms. HARRIS, Mr. MCCOTTER, Mr. 
ENGEL, 
Mr. 
DELAHUNT, 
Mr. 
SMITH
of 
New 
Jersey, 
Mr. 
FALEOMAVAEGA, Mr. WELLER, Mr. BURTON of Indiana, Mr. CHABOT, 
Mr. SCHIFF, Mr. BERMAN, Mr. HOEFFEL, Mr. HASTINGS of Florida, Mr. 
ROHRABACHER, Mr. MENENDEZ, and Mr. BALLENGER) submitted the 
following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on 
International Relations 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Condemning the attack on the AMIA Jewish Community 
Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in July 1994 and 
expressing the concern of the United States regarding 
the continuing, decade-long delay in the resolution of 
this case. 
Whereas on July 18, 1994, 85 innocent people were killed 
and 300 were wounded when the Argentine Jewish Mu-
tual Association (AMIA) was bombed in Buenos Aires, 
Argentina;
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Whereas that attack showed the same cowardice and utter 
disregard for human life as the attacks on the United 
States on September 11, 2001; 
Whereas the United States welcomes Argentine President 
Nestor Kirchner’s political will to pursue the investiga-
tion of the AMIA bombing, as demonstrated by his execu-
tive order opening the archives of Argentina’s Secretariat 
for State Intelligence (SIDE), for raising the AMIA 
cause to national status, and for emphasizing that there 
is no statute of limitations on those responsible for this 
attack; 
Whereas it is reported that considerable evidence links the at-
tacks to the terrorist group Hizballah, which is based in 
Lebanon, supported by Syria, and sponsored by Iran; 
Whereas the decade since the bombing has been marked by 
efforts to minimize the international connection to this 
terrorist attack; 
Whereas in March 2003 an Argentine judge issued arrest 
warrants for four Iranian government officials who are 
believed to have been involved in planning or carrying out 
the attack against AMIA and requested that the Inter-
national Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) ap-
prehend them; 
Whereas the four indicted Iranians are Ali Fallahian, a 
former minister of security and intelligence; Mohsen 
Rabbani, a former cultural attache at the Iranian Em-
bassy in Buenos Aires; Ali Balesh-Abadi, an Iranian dip-
lomat; and Ali Akbar Parvaresh, a former minister of 
education; 
Whereas Hadi Soleimanpour, Iran’s ambassador to Argentina 
in the 1990’s, also has an international arrest warrant
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pending against him by Argentine authorities for his sus-
pected primary role in the AMIA bombing; 
Whereas it is reported that suicide bomber Ibrahim Hussein 
Berro, a Lebanese citizen, carried out the attack on 
AMIA; 
Whereas it has been reported that contact was made by the 
Iranian embassy in Buenos Aires to Ibrahim Hussein 
Berro, who lived in a mosque in Canuelas, Argentina, in 
the days before the AMIA bombing; 
Whereas Argentine officials have acknowledged that there 
was negligence in the initial phases of the investigation 
into the 1994 bombing, including the destruction or dis-
appearance of material evidence; 
Whereas the first major criminal trial regarding the bombing 
did not begin until September 2001, and those who are 
currently on trial are former policemen and civilians who 
are accused of playing roles only in the procurement and 
delivery of the vehicle which was used in the bombing at-
tack; 
Whereas the judge who had presided since 2001 over the in-
vestigation and trial related to the AMIA bombing was 
removed in December 2003 due to charges that he bribed 
a key witness in the AMIA case; 
Whereas the new trial judge, Rodolfo Canicoba Corral, deals 
with many other important cases and has few supporting 
staff; 
Whereas on March 17, 1992, terrorists bombed the Embassy 
of Israel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, killing 29 people 
and injuring over 200, and the perpetrators of the attack 
also remain at large;
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Whereas the inability to extradite suspected Islamic militants 
and Iranian officials has debilitated the efforts of the Ar-
gentine government to prosecute masterminds and plan-
ners of the 1994 AMIA bombing; 
Whereas evidence indicates that the Tri-Border area where 
the borders of Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil meet is 
suspected of harboring organizations which support ter-
rorism, engage in drug and arms smuggling and an as-
sorted array of other illicit, revenue-raising activities; 
Whereas the Government of Argentina supports— 
(1) the 1996 Declaration of Lima to Prevent, Com-
bat and Eliminate Terrorism, which refers to terrorism 
as a ‘‘serious form of organized and systematic violence 
that is intended to generate chaos and fear among the 
population, results in death and destruction, and is a rep-
rehensible criminal activity’’; and 
(2) the 1998 Commitment of Mar del Plata which 
calls terrorist acts ‘‘serious common crimes that erode 
peaceful and civilized coexistence, affect the rule of law 
and the exercise of democracy, and endanger the stability 
of democratically elected constitutional governments and 
their socioeconomic development of our countries’’; 
Whereas the Government of Argentina actively supports the 
development 
of 
the 
‘‘Three 
Plus 
One’’ 
(3+1) 
Counterterrorism Dialogue with Brazil, Paraguay, and 
the United States; 
Whereas the Government of Argentina was successful in en-
acting a law on cooperation from defendants in terrorist 
matters, a law that will be helpful in pursuing full pros-
ecution in this and other terrorist cases; and
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Whereas the Second Specialized Conference on Terrorism 
held in Mar del Plata, Argentina on November 23 and 
24, 1998, concluded with the adoption of the Commit-
ment of Mar del Plata, calling for the establishment with-
in the Organization of American States (OAS) of an 
Inter-American Committee Against Terrorism (CICTE): 
Now, therefore, be it— 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That Congress— 
(1) reiterates its strongest condemnation of the 
1994 attack on the AMIA Jewish Community Cen-
ter in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and honors the vic-
tims of this heinous act; 
(2) expresses its sympathy to the relatives of 
the victims, who have waited ten years without jus-
tice for the loss of their loved ones, and may have 
to wait even longer for justice to be served; 
(3) underscores the concern of the United 
States regarding the continuing, decade-long delay 
in the proper resolution of this case; 
(4) strongly urges the Government of Argentina 
to continue to dedicate and provide the resources 
necessary for its judicial system and intelligence 
agencies to investigate all areas of the AMIA case, 
including by implementing Argentine President Nes-
tor Kirchner’s executive order mandating the open-
ing of the archives of Argentina’s Secretariat for
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State Intelligence (SIDE), and to prosecute with due 
haste those who are responsible for the bombing; 
(5) calls upon the international community to 
cooperate fully with the investigation, including by 
making information, witnesses, and suspects avail-
able for review and questioning by the appropriate 
Argentine authorities; 
(6) encourages the President to direct United 
States law enforcement agencies to provide support 
and cooperation to the Government of Argentina, if 
requested, for the purposes of deepening and ex-
panding the investigation into this bombing and sus-
pected activities in support of terrorism in the Tri- 
Border area where the borders of Argentina, Para-
guay, and Brazil meet; 
(7) encourages the President to direct the 
United States Representative to the Organization of 
American States (OAS) to— 
(A) seek support from OAS member coun-
tries for the creation of a special task force of 
the Inter-American Committee Against Ter-
rorism to assist, as requested by the Govern-
ment of Argentina, in the investigation of all 
aspects of the 1994 AMIA terrorist attack; and
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(B) urge OAS member countries to des-
ignate Hizballah as a terrorist organization if 
they have not already done so; 
(8) stresses the need for international pressure 
on Iran and Syria to extradite for trial individuals 
and government officials who are accused of plan-
ning or perpetrating the AMIA attack, and to imme-
diately, unconditionally, and permanently cease any 
and all assistance to terrorists; and 
(9) desires a lasting, warm relationship between 
the United States and Argentina which is built, in 
part, on mutual abhorrence of terrorism and com-
mitments to peace, stability, and democracy in the 
Western Hemisphere. 
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