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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Captain Jack who wrote (10430)	11/13/2001 8:20:43 PM
From: William B. Kohn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 27666

And we give these assholes how much money every year??? Minister: Egypt Not Obliged to Orders CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Egypt's foreign minister said his country is not obliged to follow U.S. directives to freeze assets of suspected terrorist groups. In an interview published on Tuesday with Asharq Al-Awsat, a London-based Arabic newspaper, Ahmed Maher said the United States alone is bound by lists it has produced to single out groups or individuals as being linked to terrorism. The lists are ``only binding on the United States. We in Egypt are committed to the U.N. Security Council resolution,'' Maher said in published comments. A Security Council resolution adopted Sept. 28 requires all 189 U.N. member states to deny money, support and sanctuary to terrorists. Maher said implementation of the resolution is still under discussion. The Egyptian official was interviewed during a recent visit to the Gulf emirate of Abu Dhabi. On Nov. 3, Washington issued a list of 22 suspected terrorist organizations and individuals and ordered their assets be frozen. Included was the Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah and the militant Palestinian Hamas. Arab governments, including Egypt's, view such groups as legitimate liberation movements in opposing Israeli-occupation of Arab lands. Arab leaders want a U.N.-held conference to define terrorism. Egypt has taken its own hard-line stance against terrorist movements. Since 1981, Egyptian authorities have used emergency laws to detain Muslim fundamentalists it says plot against it. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak (news - web sites), who supports Washington's campaign against terrorism, said its battle can succeed only once the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is solved. The U.S. lists of terrorist organizations and individuals include at least one militant Egyptian group, Al-Gamma Al-Islamiya or Islamic Group. Two Egyptians, Ayman al-Zawahri and Mohammed Atef, also appear on U.S. most-wanted lists. Both are top lieutenants of Sept. 11 terror suspect Osama bin Laden (news - web sites). The Lebanese government has also refused to label the militant Hezbollah - or Party of God - movement as a terrorist group and said it would not freeze its assets. Lebanon's view is shared by Iran - Hezbollah's regional mentor - and Syria, the main power broker in Lebanon.