(10 Nov 2005)
November 9 2005
1. Prosecutor�s office in Buenos Aires
2. Exterior building
3. Media conference given by Alberto Nisma, the prosecutor assigned to the AMIA (Argentine-Israeli mutual Aid association) investigation
4. Cutaway still photo of suspect and book on top on table at media conference
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Albert Nisman: Prosecutor,
"It is precisely with Doctor Martinez Burgos and the prosecutor�s office under our command that we were able to identify the material author against the Jewish- Argentine Mutual Association, the suicide driver which is the Lebanese Hezbollah militia member Ibrahim Hussein Berro and I would also add it�s practically demonstrated that it was Hezbollah the operative group that carried out the attack "
6. Various still picture of Ibrahim Hussein Berro ( suspected suicide bomber )
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Albert Nisman: Prosecutor,
" Since year 89 as told by his brothers, Ibrahim Hussein Berro, the one who killed himself at the AMIA, experienced a radical change, he quit school and started changing friends, they ( his brother) began to suspect he had began to become part of Hezbollah because of the friends he was hanging out with, which were all Hezbollah militants, he started being away for short periods of time but then those absences extended. "
9. Media conference
10. Cut away of documents on table at media conference
11. Head of Jewish Argentine Mutual Association, Luis Grynwald at media conference
12 SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Luis Grynwald: Head of the Jewish-Argentine Mutual Association
" I think that today at least for us, for the AMIA, a small spot of light has opened up for those like us who have been waiting for the last eleven years"
APTN file - July 1994
12. Various of Aftermath attack against AMIA in Buenos Aires
STORYLINE:
A Hezbollah militant has been identified as the suicide bomber who detonated a van packed with explosives more than a decade ago in Argentina's worst terrorist attack.
The blast levelled a Jewish community centre and killed 85 people in Buenos Aires.
Prosecutor Alberto Nisman said Ibrahim Hussein Berro, a Lebanese citizen, allegedly carried out the 1994 attack in Buenos Aires, which shook the country's 200,000-member Jewish population and launched an 11-year investigation which has strained relations with Iran.
Nisman, who is in charge of the investigation, said Hussein Berro "belonged to Hezbollah," an Iranian-backed Islamic militant group.
He said friends and relatives of the man identified him through a photograph a major breakthrough in the inquiry.
Leaders of Argentina's Jewish community had accused Iran of organising the attack.
Tehran has repeatedly denied that.
Nisman said there are several lines of investigation, "including the hypothesis of help from Iran."
For years, the Jewish community pressured Argentine authorities to speed up progress in finding those responsible for the attack, which also wounded more than 200 people.
Nisman said Wednesday that investigators believe the 21-year-old attacker entered Argentina in the tri-border region of Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil, known for smuggling and alleged terrorist fundraising.
In a statement released by the prosecutor's office, Nisman said investigators checking Hussein Berro's background discovered he had gone to Hezbollah training camps in southern Lebanon.
The statement said prosecutors and Argentine intelligence officers worked with the FBI as well as anti-terrorism authorities in Detroit, where Nisman said two brothers of Hussein Berro were living.
That bombing also remains unsolved.
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