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

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (10592)	11/15/2001 7:28:20 PM
From: Elmer Flugum	Respond to of 27754

Or just another pretext to go and re-arrange the furniture?

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (10592)	11/15/2001 10:44:36 PM
From: lorne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27754

Hello Nadine.....Interesting blacklist. :-) Arab states slam 'terrorist' blacklist CAIRO: One after the other, Arab countries condemn the "terrorism blacklist" drawn up by Washington, which includes terror suspect Osama bin Laden as well as groups not involved in the September 11 attacks but fighting against Israeli occupation. Several Arab governments, which have warned over the past two months against equating "terrorism" with "the legitimate right to resist foreign occupation," have slammed the inclusion of Palestinian and Lebanese groups on the US "terrorist" lists, while Israel hailed it. On November 2, the US State Department decided to extend to 22 groups -- including the Palestinian Islamists of Jihad and Hamas, as well as the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah -- the decisions it had already slapped on six movements, including bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network. Washington has requested strict measures be applied to these groups to freeze their assets and control their financial operations with third parties. Beirut has officially demanded Hezbollah be removed from the list and categorically rejected any comparison between the guerrilla fight which drove Israel out of southern Lebanon in May 2000 and Osama bin Laden, the chief suspect in the terror attacks which killed thousands in New York and Washington. "It is a mistake to make a comparison between the Al-Qaeda network ... which Lebanon has condemned, and Hezbollah, which Lebanon considers a resistance party fighting the Israeli occupation," Deputy Prime Minister Issam Fares told AFP on Friday. "Hezbollah did not carry out any resistance operation against American interests in Lebanon or abroad and did not target civilians in its resistance activities as happened on September 11 at the World Trade Center," he said. A day earlier, Washington had severely reprimanded Lebanon for refusing to freeze the assets of the fundamentalist group. Iran, Hezbollah's main ally, also asked the United States on Sunday to remove the group from its blacklist. This protest was echoed in Damascus, which also supports the Lebanese movement and harbours 10 Palestinian groups. "The United States president (George W. Bush) may have raised the issue of a Palestinian state, but Washington caused a great deal of surprise in the region by including organisations in Lebanon and Palestine fighting Israeli occupation on the terrorism list," Syria's official Tishrin daily said on Sunday. Jordan joined the chorus on Monday, arguing that "Palestinian and Arab groups which operate for the sake of Palestinian independence cannot be classified as terrorist organisations." "We call on and appeal to the US to verify the criteria by which it classifies terrorist organisations, especially in the cases that relate to the Middle East," government spokesman Saleh Kallab said. jang-group.com