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His disciple: Abdul Paz, the Argentine convert

AEI OUTLOOK SERIES The Mounting Hezbollah Threat in Latin America By Roger F. Noriega, José R. Cárdenas | Latin American Outlook
(October 2011)
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The Rabbani Network

Hojjat al-Eslam Mohsen Rabbani, who was the cultural attaché at the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Buenos Aires, Argentina, oversees a parallel Hezbollah recruitment network. Rabbani is currently the international affairs advisor to the Al-Mostafa Al-Alam Cultural Institute in Qom, which is tasked with propagation of Shia Islam outside Iran. Rabbani, referred to by the important Brazilian magazine Veja as "the Terrorist Professor," is a die-hard defender of the Iranian revolution and the mastermind behind the two notorious terrorist attacks against Jewish targets in Buenos Aires in 1992 and 1994 that killed 144 people.

At the time, Rabbani was credentialed as a cultural attaché at the Iranian embassy in the Argentine capital, which he used a staging ground for extremist propaganda, recruitment, and training that culminated in the attacks in the 1990s. In fact, he continues to exploit that network of Argentine converts today to expand Iran's and Hezbollah's reach by leveraging them in identifying and recruiting operatives throughout the region for radicalization and terrorist training in Venezuela and Iran (specifically, the city of Qom).

At least two mosques in Buenos Aires—Al Imam and At-Tauhid—are run by Rabbani disciples. Sheik Abdallah Madani runs the Al Imam mosque, which also serves as the headquarters for the Islamic-Argentine Association, one of the most prominent Islamic cultural centers in Latin America.

Some of Rabbani's disciples have taken what they have learned from their mentor in Argentina and replicated it elsewhere in the region. Sheik Karim Abdul Paz, an Argentine convert to Shiite Islam, studied under Rabbani in Qom for five years and succeeded him at the At-Tauhid mosque in Buenos Aires in 1993. Abdul Paz is now the imam of a cultural center in Santiago, Chile, the Centro Chileno Islamico de Cultura de Puerto Montt. His wife, Masoumeh As'ad Paz, is the head of the Argentine Muslim Women's League, the editor of Moazzen, and director of the activities of the Argentine Islamic Aid and Relief Committee and the Argentine Islamic Cultural Institute.

Another Argentine convert to radical Islam and Rabbani disciple now in Chile is Sheik Suhail Assad, currently a professor at the University of Santiago who lectures at universities throughout the region and appears frequently on television. Most recently, he was in El Salvador establishing relationships with the Muslim community.

But the real prize for the Rabbani network—and Hezbollah in general—is Brazil, home to some 1 million Muslims. Rabbani has a brother living there, Mohammad Baquer Rabbani Razavi, the founding father of the Iranian Association in Brazil, whom he visits and coordinates with systematically. Another of his principal collaborators is Sheik Khaled Taki Eldyn, a Sunni radical from the Sao Paulo Guarulhos mosque. Taki Eldyn, who is active in ecumenical activities with the Shia mosques, also serves as the secretary general of the Council of the Leaders of the Societies and Islamic Affairs of Brazil. A sensitive source linked that mosque to a TBA network designated by the US Treasury Department as one that provides major financial and logistical support to Hezbollah. As far back as 1995, Taki Eldyn hosted al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and 9/11 master-mind Khalid Sheik Mohammed in the TBA region. According to sources in Brazilian intelligence cited by the Brazilian magazine Veja, at least twenty operatives from Hezbollah, al Qaeda, and the Islamic Jihad are using Brazil as a hub for terrorist activity.

Despite being the subject of an Interpol Red Notice, Rabbani reportedly still operates in the region, traveling under false papers and connecting with his former disciples. Rabbani was in Venezuela as recently as March and in Brazil as recently as September 2010, where he and his brother continue their recruitment efforts.
http://www.aei.org/outlook/101082

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Bolivia -- Key Muslim Converts Assert Local Peril, Ally With Zealots
May 12, 2009 – The online version of the independent La Paz daily La Razon cited a claim by Sheikh ..... 2004, succeeding Mohsen Rabbani, the former Iranian cultural ... 3 For further information on the AMIA bombing and Abdul Karim Paz,
http://www.fas.org/irp/dni/osc/bolivia.pdf

Israel and Chile cooperated to spy on Iran, WikiLeaks reveals Chile and Israel both expressed concern over growing ties between Venezuela and Iran, and well as the potential Iranian presence on border between Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, cable says.
By Barak Ravid
Feb 21, 2011 – Santiago Paz Bullrich, "Sheikh Karim Abdul Paz", who was disciple of Mohsen Rabbani, at large from Interpol for his role in the massacre on the AMIA, the Argentinean Jewish Relief Center. He shuttled between Buenos Aires and Santiago and established a shiite Islamic "study center" and went so far as to have an audience with then president Ricardo Lagos, a web-page, and participating in whatever forum opened to him. His views were fanatical, extremely anti-Semitic and anti-Israel, whil mantaining an elegant, quiet appearance. Close to him were Iranian-passport holding agents. When his close connection with terrorist Mohsen Rabbani became a focal point at the AMIA investigation, and he couldn't travel to the USA, the Chilean Policia de Investigaciones (PDI) and ANI started tracing his activities. The Iranian Embassy in Santiago has no external banners, flag, shield or address. It is located at Avda. El Bosque, in Santiago's Providencia district, in a residential building, not an office building. That made its activities even more suspicious. Iran currently has intense activities in Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil Nicaragua, Mexico and Chile.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israel-and-chile-cooperated-to-spy-on-iran-wikileaks-reveals-1.344685