Return-Path: <sentto-279987-2533-1001890640-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.1.0) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Sun, 30 Sep 2001 15:58:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 32595 invoked by uid 510); 30 Sep 2001 22:57:31 -0000 Received: from n15.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.65) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 30 Sep 2001 22:57:31 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-2533-1001890640-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.53] by ml.egroups.com with NNFMP; 30 Sep 2001 22:57:20 -0000 X-Sender: fc@big.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_4_1); 30 Sep 2001 22:57:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 10860 invoked from network); 30 Sep 2001 22:57:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 30 Sep 2001 22:57:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO big.all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta3 with SMTP; 30 Sep 2001 22:57:20 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by big.all.net (8.9.3/8.7.3) id PAA16214 for iwar@onelist.com; Sun, 30 Sep 2001 15:57:19 -0700 Message-Id: <200109302257.PAA16214@big.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 15:57:18 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] [fc:Hamas.leader:.US.is.hated.because.it.supports.Israel] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hamas leader: US is hated because it supports Israel Friday, September 28, 2001 Hamas leader gives U.S. advice By DONNA ABU-NASR -- The Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- Instead of spreading its military might around the world to exact revenge for the Sept. 11 attacks, the United States should ask itself a simple question: "Why this tremendous animosity toward America?" So says Moussa Abu Marzouk, a prominent leader of the militant Islamic Hamas group -- which the U.S. State Department has classified a terrorist organization -- who served two years in a New York jail after his name appeared on a list of people suspected of terrorist activity. Hamas and its smaller sister, Islamic Jihad, were not on the list of terrorist groups whose assets the United States is freezing in the wake of the attacks. But the U.S. Treasury Department has frozen two bank accounts of an Internet company based in Dallas because it received an investment in 1993 from Nadia Elashi Marzouk, the Hamas leader's wife. Abu Marzouk was placed on a Treasury Department list of terrorists in 1995, allowing the government to seize his U.S. assets. And, a congressional report on terrorism released a day before the Sept. 11 attacks lists the terror activities of both Hamas and Islamic Jihad as "very high." Both groups have sent suicide bombers to blow up Israeli markets, restaurants, discos and train stations during the one-year Palestinian intefadeh. Washington has condemned the attacks, in which more than 50 Israelis and several foreigners, including an American, have been killed. Abu Marzouk said no parallels should be drawn between the conflict in the Middle East and the suicide attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania that killed thousands of people. The latter, he said, were a direct outcome of resentment toward America; the former, he called the struggle of a people against occupation. "A distinction should be made," Abu Marzouk said in an interview Sunday with The Associated at Hamas' office in the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp. Like other Palestinian and Arab groups, Hamas has directed its anger not only against Israel, but also against the United States, seen in the Arab world as biased in Israel's favor. But its anti-U.S. outrage has been limited to rhetoric not attacks, a policy, Abu Marzouk said Hamas is not deviating from. "Hamas is not concerned with a confrontation with any other party, even one that aids Israel," Abu Marzouk said, adding that his group condemns the U.S. attacks. "The targeting of civilians irrespective of their nationalities is unacceptable, and it's a practice that should be abolished from this world," he said. Asked how he could reconcile those words with Hamas' suicide attacks that killed and injured Israeli civilians, Abu Marzouk said his group's actions were justified because they came in response to Israeli bombings that killed Palestinian noncombatants. "They were reciprocal acts and a natural reaction to what's being done to the Palestinians," he said. In that case, how would Hamas respond to President Bush's call to join the anti-terror campaign or else be considered a terrorist? "We are with neither side," Abu Marzouk said. "It's the arrogance of power when the United States determines whether you should be with it or with terrorism." "We are against terrorism," he added. "We are the victims of American-backed terrorism." Abu Marzouk, who lived intermittently in the United States until his deportation in 1997, has refused to talk about the U.S. Treasury Department's action. At least four of his six children are American citizens. His wife won a green card in an immigration lottery in Louisiana in 1990 and through it obtained one for her husband. It's not clear whether he has given back his green card. Abu Marzouk was detained in July 1995 at John F. Kennedy International Airport. His name was on an Immigration and Nationalization Service watch list of people suspected of involvement in terrorist activity. Israel sought to extradite him to try him for organizing suicide attacks, a charge he has denied. When Israel withdrew its extradition request, a deal was worked out for Abu Marzouk to be expelled to Jordan for violating immigration laws. Abu Marzouk said this should be a period of introspection for Americans and not a time for deploying troops and high-tech weapons. "America should think about the hatred that people feel for it," he said. Why is America resented? Abu Marzouk points to it's support for Israel. "When people watch the killings of Palestinians with American weapons, American support and American cover, what can you expect?" He also decries U.S. sanctions against Iraq and Libya. "This is a weapon that punished the masses not the governments," Abu Marzouk said. ------------------------ Yahoo! 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