AMIA bombing: what Wikipedia removed

The AMIA bombing was a 1994 truck-bomb attack on the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people, still the deadliest terrorist attack in Argentine history. In 2005 the opening reported that the suicide bomber “has been honored with a plaque in southern Lebanon for” his martyrdom, according to Israeli diplomatic sources who read the Argentine intelligence report. Today the word survives once in the body but is gone from the opening. A reader today does not learn that the opening once described this attack as the largest single incident of terrorism against Jews since World War II, a description no longer present anywhere in the opening.

The word “martyr” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2005. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 1. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.

Where this comes from

We saved this article’s opening paragraph at 6 moments between 2005 and 2025. Everything below is Wikipedia’s own text, quoted from those saved copies. The interactive version, with every snapshot side by side and each removal marked in place, is at ilroot.com/case/amia-bombing.

The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot

word	2005	2010	2015	2020	6 October 2023	2025
martyr	1	0	0	0	0	0
terror	2	0	1	4	4	4
militant	0	0	0	0	1	1
islamist	0	0	0	0	1	1
jihad	0	0	0	1	1	1
disputed	0	1	1	1	1	1

Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.

What was taken out

• This dropped the description of the AMIA bombing as ‘the largest single incident of terrorism against Jews since World War II,’ a superlative absent from today’s opening.
• The wording describing the September 2004 acquittal of the ‘local connection’ suspects was reworked rather than removed outright.
• This dropped the note that investigating judge Juan Galeano was still handling the case as of February 2005, an outdated procedural detail superseded by later developments.

How it opened then, and now

2005 (revision 16283721):

The AMIA Bombing was an attack on the Argentine-Israeli Mutual Association building (Asociación Mutua Israelita Argentina, or (AMIA), in Spanish ). It was Argentina’s deadliest bombing and the largest single incident of terrorism against Jews since World War II . Argentina is home to the largest Jewish community in Latin America . Hezbollah is believed to be behind the attack, with backing from Iran . Israeli diplomatic sources who read the report by the Argentine State Intelligence Agency ( Secretaría de Inteligencia Del Estado ) on the attack told said in 2003 that the attack was a suicide bombing carried out by Ibrahim Hussein Berro, a 29-year-old Muslim who has been honored with a plaque…

2025 (revision 1298339650):

1994 attack on a Jewish Community Centre in Buenos Aires, Argentina The AMIA bombing occurred on 18 July 1994 in Buenos Aires , Argentina , and targeted the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA; transl. “Argentine Israelite Mutual Association” ), a Jewish Community Centre . Executed as a suicidal attack , a bomb-laden van was driven into the AMIA building and subsequently detonated, killing 85 people and injuring over 300. To date, the bombing remains the deadliest terrorist attack in Argentine history . In 1994, Argentina was home to a Jewish community of 200,000 , making it the largest in Latin America and the sixth-largest in the world outside of Israel . Over the years, the AMIA b…

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