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| Terror Networks |
| Canada Adds Hamas to Banned Groups List |
| 2002-11-29 |
| Canada added six more groups to its list of banned terrorist organizations Wednesday, including the Palestinian militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad. The list, created under legislation passed after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, now has 13 groups that are banned from the country. Anyone belonging to them or helping them faces a possible 10-year prison sentences. About time, don't you think? "The decision to list an entity is a very serious one and listing carries severe consequences - not only for terrorists, but also for their supporters," said Solicitor General Wayne Easter, adding that more groups would be listed. I'm sure they will be properly impressed, Wayne. Besides Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the four other groups added to the list Wednesday are the Yemen-based Islamic Army of Aden, Lebanon-based Asbat Al-Ansar (The League of Partisans), and two Pakistani groups, Harakat ul-Mujahedeen and Jaish-e-Mohammed. They join seven groups put on the list in July: Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network; the Armed Islamic Group and the Salafist Group for Call and Combat, both from Algeria; the Somalia-based Al-Ittihad Al-Islam; and the Egyptian Islamic Jihad and the Egypt-based Vanguards of Conquest and al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya (Islamic Group). Now awaiting the cries of protest and condemnation that are sure to appear from the usual suspects. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #3 You think Canada, or Soviet Canukistan, would be on top of this. They are whiter than we are, no? ;-) |
| Posted by: Brian 2002-11-29 22:29:10 |
| #2 No Hezbollah in Canada, according to our PM (Pathetic Moron) Jean Chretien: "Da proof is da proof, and when you has da proofs, you has da proof." (just been dying to slip that in) |
| Posted by: john 2002-11-29 20:30:16 |
| #1 Notice Hizbullah is missing? That is Canada giving you the finger. |
| Posted by: Brian 2002-11-29 16:14:00 |