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To: Condor who wrote (189)	9/17/2001 8:19:45 PM
From: Frederick Langford	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Terror Groups Met Twice to Plot New Holy War Against U.S., Israel Sunday, September 16, 2001 By Carl Cameron WASHINGTON — The world’s most extreme terrorist groups met twice earlier this year in an effort to set aside their philosophical differences and unite in a new holy war against the United States and Israel, law enforcement officials tell Fox News. The two meetings, according to the officials, took place in Beirut, Lebanon in February and the Iranian capital of Tehran in late April. The gatherings are described as "unprecedented," and went largely unnoticed in the west. A handful of officials in the White House were briefed on the event. Dubbed the "Jerusalem Conference" by its 400 or so participants, the group drafted a document pledging to unite behind the Palestinians and win total Arab control over Jerusalem. "The only decisive option to achieve this strategy is the option of Jihad (holy war) in all its forms," the document says, according to law enforcement officials who have seen it. "America today is a second Israel." The group – made up of Usama Bin Laden’s al-Qaeda, the Palestinians’ Hamas and Islamic Jihad factions, the Lebanese Hezbollah and militants from Egypt, Pakistan, Jordan, Qatar, Yemen, Sudan and Algeria – has named its task ahead, "The Jerusalem Project." Sources tell Fox News that at least one participant went to the conference from the United States and returned here afterward. The sources say "The Jerusalem Project" is headquartered in Beirut and led by two men -- Musa Abu Marzouq, a Hamas leader who was in 1977 arrested in New York and later deported to Jordan; and Ramadham Abdullah Shallah of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, who has two sons that served in Bin Laden's Mujahedin unit against the Soviet's in Afghanistan. Iran reportedly sent several official diplomats to the meetings, including Hojatoleslam Ali Akbar Mohtashami, a well known Iranian intelligence official.

To: Condor who wrote (189)	9/17/2001 8:20:04 PM
From: Michael Watkins	Respond to of 281500

Hopefully it is the beginning of a new trend to fiercely supportive allies as opposed to.... let's say....France. I agree with you; the US and Canada are much more alike than not, and have the same basic freedoms and lifestyle at stake. Since the JC liberals have taken to adopting many conservative themes, perhaps they will find it easier to slip into this one and be more firm in their support. So far I've heard more encouraging words from John Manley and members of the opposition than I have from Chretien. And I was kidding about tax cuts. But there will be a price to be paid in real canuk bucks for funding for a variety of security and policing needs.