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Senior Hamas leader Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi: U.S. will `pay a very high price for the mistake` of capturing Saddam (Reuters)

Translation from Hebrew to English by me "You the Jews are invited to live in safety in Palestine, the whole" "But until then the terror attacks will continue. The Jihad will agree to 1967 border, and will continue to resistance from there to liberate all 1948 lands." Head of the Islamic Jihad in an exculsive interview to the Israeli press. He went underground after the failure of the talks in Cairo. Nafez Azzam in Gaza Strip. The Shaik Nafez Azzam, one of the leaders of the Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip, does not answer phone calls. Since the failure...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 — Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Shiite group, has established a significant presence in Iraq, but is not taking part in attacks on American forces inside the country, according to current and former United States officials and Arabs familiar with the organization. Iran is believed to be restraining Hezbollah from attacking American troops, and that is prompting a debate within the Bush administration about Iran's objectives, administration officials said. Hezbollah's presence has become a source of concern as it is recognized by counterterrorist experts to have some of the most dangerous operatives in the world. Both American and Israeli...

IDF Spokesman: IAF was not active in western Galilee when Hezbollah fired anti-aircraft shells in area

Israeli naval commandos seized a fishing boat from Lebanon loaded with rocket fuses, electronic bombmaking components and Hizbullah compact discs containing instructions on how to put together explosives belts used by suicide bombers, military officials said Thursday. Eight people were also captured on board the Egyptian fishing boat off the northern Israeli coast, including two Hizbullah operatives, sources said. The most significant suspect was identified as Hamed Amsalem Abu Amra, a Hizbullah man suspected of planning to help instruct Palestinian terrorists about bombmaking techniques. The boat, called the Abu Hassan, was intercepted on a regular shipping route off the Israeli...

Holy Land charity takes seizure fight to court Richardson group wants U.S. to return assets, denies terror link 07/18/2002 By MICHELLE MITTELSTADT / The Dallas Morning News WASHINGTON - Attorneys for a Texas-based Muslim charity accused of bankrolling international terrorism head to court Thursday to demand the return of millions of dollars seized by the U.S. government. Lawyers for the now-dormant Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, which was based in Richardson, contend that the government's freeze was predicated on the false claim that the organization funneled money to the Palestinian terror group Hamas. "The government has branded...