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Saudi Cleric: Don't Confuse Jihad With Terrorism

Saturday, September 29 2001 @ 03:17 AM GMT

A senior Saudi cleric is calling on Muslims not to confuse a jihad with
terrorism. 

In his Friday sermon Sheikh Abdul Rahman al-Sudais, imam of the Grand
Mosque in Mecca, said a jihad is a legitimate holy war with clear rules
and ethics. 

He condemned terrorism as anti-Islamic and said it would be a calamity
for Muslims to confuse the two.  Islam, he says, stands apart from those
who believe in violence and bloodshed. 

Sheikh al-Sudais also called for the formation of an international
Islamic body to examine the causes of terrorism and how to eliminate it. 

-VOA News

Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad Accuse US

The Associated Press, Fri 28 Sep 2001

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — The leaders of Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad,
militant Islamic groups labeled terrorist organizations by the United
States, accused Washington on Friday of launching a war on Muslim
nations in retaliation for terror attacks at home. 

At a rally marking the first anniversary of the latest Palestinian
uprising against neighboring Israel, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, leader of
Lebanon's Hezbollah, said his group would ``consider any attack on
Afghanistan to be a blatant aggression against innocent Muslim people,
and it would be condemned and rejected by all the people in the Arab and
Muslim world.''

The United States is believed preparing military action in Afghanistan
in an attempt to capture suspected terror mastermind Osama bin Laden and
to wipe out his training camps.  His al-Qaeda group is blamed for the
terror attacks Sept.  11 on New York and the Pentagon. 

However, the Iranian-backed Shiite Muslim group did not threaten to take
military action if the United States launches attacks on Afghanistan and
has voiced regret over the loss of life in the United States. 

More than 50,000 people, many waving Palestinian and Hezbollah flags,
attended the rally in south Beirut late Friday.  The meeting began with
video clips of Israeli-Palestinian fighting and a band playing military
songs, including one with the refrain ``Death to Israel.'' America's war
on terrorism ``is a pretext to dominate the world and is also a pretext
for the presence of its fleets and military bases in Afghanistan,
Central Asia, the Caspian Sea, the Gulf and the Mediterranean for the
sake of Israel,'' the bearded Nasrallah said.  Nasrallah was joined by
Ramadan Abdullah Shalah, head of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a group
that has claimed responsibility for suicide bombings in Israel. 

Shalah warned that Israel would take advantage of the terror attacks to
encourage the United States to launch a war on all Muslim nations.  He
also rejected Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's call to support the
U.S.  war on global terrorism. 

While both Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad are listed as terrorist
organizations by the United States, they were not included on a short
list of groups President Bush linked to bin Laden. 

U.N.  lifts sanctions imposed against Sudan in 1996

The Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS -- A green light from the United States on Friday ended
5-year-old U.N.  sanctions against Sudan, although Washington is still
keeping the country on its terrorist watch list. 

Signaling its continued concern, the United States abstained on the
Security Council vote to end diplomatic and aviation sanctions imposed
after a 1995 assassination attempt against Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak.  The 14 other members voted to immediately lift the embargoes,
which were never actively enforced. 

The council had postponed a Sept.  13 discussion on Sudan, which was to
be followed by a vote, because of the terrorist attacks two days earlier
on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. 

Earlier this week, the United States disclosed that Sudan has quietly
rounded up as many as 30 foreign extremists since the attacks.  On
Friday, the U.S.  Embassy in Sudan released a message from Secretary of
State Colin Powell which said the United States will enlist Sudan's
assistance in its campaign to eliminate "all forms of international
terrorism."

Sudan is on the State Department's list of countries that support
terrorism, but President Omar el-Bashir's government has been working
with U.S.  anti-terrorism experts since March 2000 and was quick to
condemn the Sept.  11 attacks. 

After Friday's Security Council vote, Sudan's U.N.  Ambassador Elfatih
Mohamed Erwa assured members that the resolution "represents a strong
impetus for my country to proceed forward and to cooperate in order to
eliminate terrorism, and to engage with the mainstream international
community's work and its organs."

The United States hasn't asked to use Sudanese military bases, "but we
offer ...  genuine cooperation in combating terrorism," Erwa said. 

U.S.  deputy ambassador James Cunningham told the council, "Sudan has
recently apprehended extremists ...  whose activities may have
contributed to international terrorism" and was seriously discussing
ways to combat terrorism with U.S.  officials. 

The sanctions imposed in 1996 were intended to compel Sudan to hand over
the gunmen who fired on Mubarak's car on June 26, 1995, while he was
visiting Ethiopia.  The suspects were believed to have fled to Sudan. 

The council initially ordered U.N.  members to reduce Sudan's diplomatic
presence in their countries and to restrict the movement of its
officials and then banned Sudanese planes from U.N.  member states. 

Cunningham said that although the United States believes Sudan has taken
"substantial steps" to meet the sanction demands, the suspects were not
turned over.  They are no longer believed to be in Sudan. 

In addition, Cunningham said, the United States has continuing concerns
about Sudan's 18-year civil war, which has created enormous suffering,
displacement and human rights abuses including slavery. 

Sudan believes the lifting of sanctions will "open the door widely" and
allow it to work with Washington to remove itself from the U.S.  list of
nations sponsoring terrorism, the Sudanese ambassador said. 


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