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US brands HUJI 'terrorist'
The United States said it had designated a Bangladeshi group, Harkat-ul-Jihad al Islami, as a terrorist organisation, subjecting it to US financial sanctions. Bangladesh accuses the group of involvement in a grenade attack on a political rally in 2004 in which 23 people were killed. A statement posted on the US State Department website said the groups leader had signed a 1998 fatwa sponsored by Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden that declared American civilians to be legitimate targets for attack.Since then, HUJI-B has been implicated in a number of terrorist attacks in Bangladesh and abroad, it said. The statement said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday named Harkat as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation and a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. Posted by: Fred 2008-03-08 |
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