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continuing terrorist training of al Qaeda cadres at camps in Hizballah-controlled Lebanonand Iran.)1. 1992: Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In March 1992, aHizballah terrorist team operating under Mughniyah‘s command truck-bombed the Israeliembassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, killing twenty-nine (29) people and wounding twohundred forty-two (242) others. Baer, The Devil We Know, p. 228; Ex. 7, BergmanAffid. 42; Ex. 2, Timmerman 2nd Affid. 38-39. NSA intercepts of communicationsfrom the Iranian embassies in Buenos Aires and Brasilia, Brazil, to the Foreign Ministryin Iran were decoded to prove Iranian involvement in the attack; the NSA provided Israelwith ―unequivocal proof – ‗not a smoking gun, but a blazing cannon‘‖ – that ImadMughniyah and another senior Hizballah member, Talal Hamiaa, executed the terroristoperation. Ex. 7, Bergman Affid. 42.2. 1993: New York City. On February 26, 1993, the first World TradeCenter bombing occurred, killing six persons and injuring more than one thousand(1,000). A few months later, an al Qaeda conspiracy to bomb several New York Citylandmarks, including the Lincoln Tunnel and the Holland Tunnel, was disrupted.Egyptian cleric Omar Abdul Rahman, a/k/a the ―Blind Sheikh,‖ whose Egyptian radicalgroup is linked to al Zawahiri and al Qaeda, was convicted of masterminding the plot toengage in urban warfare against the United States. 53 Ex. 6, Lopez-Tefft Affid. 150; Ex.53 Ramzi Yousef, an al Qaeda operative who stayed at a bin Laden guest house in Pakistan (and is thenephew of 9/11 plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammad), was the coordinator of the first WTC attack. Ex.6, Lopez-Tefft Affid. 149. Ali Mohamed, who arranged the 1993 meeting in Khartoum, Ex. 2,Timmerman 2nd Affid. 51, provided guidance and training to extremists at the Farouq Mosque inBrooklyn, including some of those who were subsequently convicted of the 1993 WTC bombing. Ex.6, Lopez-Tefft Affid. 138. Havlish expert Dietrich Snell investigated and prosecuted Yousef andothers for the ―Bojinka‖ plot to bomb a dozen U.S. civil aircraft over the Pacific Ocean, obtainingconvictions of Yousef and his co-defendants on all counts. Snell also assisted in appellate argumentssustaining the convictions of the ―Blind Sheikh‖ and others for their conspiracy to wage urban warfare60