Mughniyah has been formally charged by Argentina with participating in the March 17, 1992 bombings of the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, which killed 29 people and the AMIA cultural building in July 1994, which left 86 people dead. He has also been accused of orchestrating the 2000 abductions of three Israeli soldiers in the northern part of Israel and the kidnapping of Israeli businessman Elchanan Tenenbaum and in the 2006 Lebanon conflict, killing eight soldiers and abducting two. Mughniyah has been allegedly linked to Palestinian operations such as the Karine A incident in 2002, where the Palestinian Authority was accused of importing fifty tons of weapons. Various law enforcement agencies attempted to capture Mughniyah over the years. The United States tried to secure his capture in France in 1986, but were thwarted by French refusal to detain him. The United States tried to capture Mughniyah several times afterwards as well, the first being a 1995 attempt to detain him on a Saudi Arabian bound flight. Saudi officials, however, refused to allow the plane to land.
