The United States accused the Hezbollah leader of attacking the AMIA and offered $ 7 million to capture him.

The United States has officially accused the member of the Lebanese Hezbollah organization, Salman Raouf Salman, for staging the attack on the AMIA, which left 85 dead and 300 wounded there. At 25 years.

The US government offered a reward up to seven million dollars for any information leading to the arrest of Salman.

In turn, the US Treasury Department imposed sanctions on Salman for "coordinating this devastating attack" of July 18, 1994, which has since been spearheaded "terrorist operations for Hezbollah in the Western Hemisphere," according to the secretary. deputy of the department. Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, Sigal Mandelker.

Salman, of Colombian nationality and known by the pseudonym of "Samuel Salman El Reda", is One of the most wanted fugitives by Interpol accused of "aggravated homicide of racial or religious hatred".

For three decades, he managed to hide between Lebanon and Latin America. He has many shelters, varied identities and has created a network of contacts large enough to escape the prison and set up a money laundering and cocaine trafficking structure in his country, then in Europe and in the Middle East, the international press reported.

This information is known as the Secretary of State of the United States, Mike Pompeo, goes to Argentina.

Pompeo, who arrived in the country this morning, participates in the headquarters of the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the "Second Hemispheric Ministerial Conference on the Fight Against Terrorism" and paid tribute to the victims of this tribute earlier in this tribute. attacked the AMIA, at the headquarters of the Jewish Mutual, where he was one of the speakers.

Pompeo said that "Hezbollah was the author of the attack against AMIA" and called the organization of fundamentalists "hidden arm of Iran" .

On Wednesday, Mauricio Macri's government aligned with the US government and included Hezbollah in the list of terrorist organizations and the Financial Information Unit (FIU) ordered the freezing of the group's badets.

The measure of Macri has been praised by the government of Israel. "I would like to congratulate my friend, the Argentine President Mauricio (Macri), and to congratulate him on the consideration and definition of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization dedicated to terrorism and for preventing it from continuing to gain access to resources by freezing his badets, "he wrote. in a tweet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.