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| Terrorists call US "sponsor of terrorism." Go figure. |
| 2001-10-03 |
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Activists and clerics at an Arab-Muslim conference, including the leaders of Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah, denounced the United States on Wednesday as a "sponsor of terrorism" for its support of Israel. The hastily organized conference was called to "discuss how to cope with the aftermath" of the Sept. 11 terror attacks on the United States, said Nawaf Musawi, an official with the Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah. Among the 200 delegates at the two-day gathering were two of Israel's leading enemies, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Hezbollah, and Ramadan Abdullah Shalah, head of the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad. The United States has characterized both as terrorist groups, although they were not on the U.S. list of groups and individuals whose accounts President Bush ordered frozen in the wake of last month's attacks. Delegates claimed Washington's campaign against terrorism was aimed at "regaining complete American hegemony on the entire world." "The United States exploited the humanitarian tragedy to which thousands of innocent Americans had been subjected to present itself as a victim and conceal the real picture of the U.S. policy, which is based on oppression, domination and aggression," delegates said in a statement at the end of the meeting, read out by Musawi. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |