Buenos Aires, Argentina - June 6, 2024
Days before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights condemned Argentina for the AMIA case, the federal judge Ariel Lijo decided to declare public access to the report prepared by the then Secretariat of Intelligence of the Presidency of the Nation (SIDE) entitled "Subject: A.M.I.A. the international connection. El esclarecimiento del atentado terrorista y la individualizacion de sus autores".
It is a paper prepared with CIA data that was internally called the "Toma report" because it was written by the former head of SIDE during the administration of Eduardo Duhalde, Miguel Angel Toma, and confirms that Iran was behind the organisation of the attack.

It also reveals details about the role of the people who perpetrated the attack and their contacts in Paraguay, Chile and Brazil. He also mentions the passage through Argentina of Samuel El Reda, one of the leaders of the Hezbollah cell accused of blowing up the AMIA.

Toma explained that Justice declassified the central "node", a sort of summary of some 200 pages that brings together the most important information of a larger plexus of nearly 10,000 pages. These are investigations that, in addition, gathered evidentiary material useful for judicial decisions.
"In this work, a complete vision of the cover companies that Iran had, the methodology of action of the mosques and the entire Iranian intelligence network that decided how and when to carry out the attack was detailed and offered to the justice system," the former official explained.

The declassified report "was the basis on which Alberto Nisman, when he was appointed head of the UFI AMIA, began his work", while part of what was discovered "was central to the fact that 20 years later, the Chamber of Cassation declared Iran a terrorist state", he said.

"The report was able to expose the matrix that acted and was responsible for killing 85 Argentines, plus those at the Embassy, because it was the same structure that acted," he added.

Toma was Secretary of Intelligence and in submitting this report to the justice system - he handed it over in 2003 to the then judge in the case, Juan Jose Galeano - he pointed the finger at the Iranians Moshen Rabbani and Moshen Rezai, who two years ago was received with honours in Nicaragua for the inauguration of Daniel Ortega in the presence of the Argentine ambassador to that country.

SHOTLIST:
1. various from the bombing site (sept 6, 2023).