Declaring a terrorist group from Hezbollah or not, public debate in government – 03/17/2019

In this election year, Congress activities are expected to be more exhausted than they were in 2018. Nevertheless, one sector of the government is still in internal talks about a plan that began to emerge last year. to declare Hezbollah a terrorist group. This requires Parliament to adopt a law this gives the executive power the power to designate a terrorist organization. It's a mechanism that some leaders already have, such as the United States and Israel, a mirror in which these ruling party sectors are looking at each other.

In fact, according to Clarin, it was the Washington officials who sent this request to the Argentineans in tune with Tel Aviv.

With its own legislation, Hezbollah is considered a terrorist group, particularly in Israel, the United States and the European Union.

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Sources consulted within counterterrorism organizations indicated that although they wanted a settlement declaring Hezbollah as a terrorist group on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the attack on the Hezbollah. AMIA (July 18), they recognized that it was difficult to generate a parliamentary debate. this year. They hope that a possible re-election of Macrismo will revitalize these already initiated conversations internally and externally.

They are aware of this debate but do not declare it publicly, namely the head of the Financial Information Unit, Mariano Federici, the Ministers Patricia Bullrich (Security), Germán Garavano (Justice) and Jorge Faurie (Foreign Affairs) . However, according to Clarín, the subject divides the waters.

At the same time, diplomats from the Foreign Ministry have warned against this initiative: they would argue that the executive should be given the mechanism to individually designate a group as the enemy of the state and therefore as a terrorist group would expose Argentina to orders from specific countries seeking to declare as such groups operating in their territories but not here. That is, Argentina is involved in the conflicts of other people. For example, China is asking Argentina to declare the Falung terrorist group when it has no such consideration on the international scene. And so on. Nowadays, in many countries, there are groups that commit terrorist acts, as in India, among others. These are formations that are not qualified as such within the United Nations sphere and therefore do not appear here as terrorists.

Diplomats and security officials consulted stressed that the Argentine Penal Code makes it possible to investigate terrorist activities in the country and criminalize them without declaring terrorist Hezbollah. On the other hand, those who are dedicated to the persecution of terrorism claim that this would speed up investigations.

Argentina regards as terrorist group only those who are enlisted under the auspices of the United Nations Security Council, an organization in which there is a committee for which The Taliban and al Qaeda and their badociates are terrorists.

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Although Hezbollah appears in Lebanon as a powerful political party, one of its armed diversions is linked to major terrorist attacks. In Argentina, justice is directed against this group because of the terrorist attacks against the Israeli Embbady (29 dead), whose 27th birthday this Sunday is June 17, and that of the AMIA (85 dead). Particularly with regard to the Jewish Mutual, Justice addresses directly to the current and former Iranian officials, who constitute a source of funding for the Shia militia.

Meanwhile, under Mauricio Macri's government, the government has increased its operations in the Triple Frontier, where Washington and Tel Aviv continue to observe that Hezbollah is heavily influenced. In 2018, the government made a financial blow to a group accused of financing terrorism by the Triple Frontier: the Barakat clan.

At the same time, as planned by this newspaper, the UIF ordered resolution 231/18 of the "administrative freeze of badets and money of alleged Hezbollah financiers who would operate in the Triple Border Zone" . And on the order of the federal judge of the missionary city of El Dorado, Miguel Guerrero, the gendarmerie raided a series of casinos and hotels connected by the Triple Frontier. Subsequently, the Brazilian police arrested the leader of the Assad Ahmad clan. For the G20 summit held at the end of the year in Buenos Aires, there were also arrests of militants with slogans for Hezbollah, carried out by the Ministry of Security.