In retaliation, the Islamic Jihad Organization attacked the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires. After the attack, the Islamic Jihad Organization declared that it was carried out as revenge for the martyr infant Hussein, al Musawi's five-year-old son, who had been killed with his father. Later it was revealed by Dieter Bednarz and Ronen Bergman that the original plan of Israel had been just to abduct al Musawi to realize the release of Israeli prisoners. However, Ehud Barak, then Israeli chief of staff, convinced then Israeli Prime Minister Shamir to order his assassination.