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------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> FREE COLLEGE MONEY CLICK HERE to search 600,000 scholarships! http://us.click.yahoo.com/47cccB/4m7CAA/ySSFAA/7gSolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ---------- PFLP, DFLP say they have nothing to do with attacks in US DAMASCUS, Sept 11 (AFP) - Two radical Palestinian groups based in Syria denied any connection with a series of apparent terrorist attacks in the United States Tuesday. Maher Taher, a spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), said his group "has nothing to do with these explosions." Ali Badwan, an official of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), also denied any connection with the attacks. "We are opposed to all acts of violence outside the occupied Palestinian territories," Badwan said. On August 27, following the assassination of PFLP chief Abu Ali Mustafa in an Israeli missile attack on the West Bank, Taher had called on Arabs to "strike American interests." However, following a meeting with Syrian Vice President Abdel Halim Khaddam two days later, Taher toned down his call, saying it applied only to "American economic interests." "By American interests, you must understand, this means economic interests," Maher Taher told AFP at the time. "We ask the Arab world to hit American interests because the United States participates (with Israel) in the extermination of the Palestinian people," Taher said, referring to the Palestinian uprising against Israel. The day before, the United States had called on Syrian authorities to rein in the PFLP after Taher's comments. Despite Taher's softened statement, a member of the PFLP excecutive committee, Abu Ali Talal, reiterated on August 30 threats against both US and Israeli interests throughout the world. "Our response will be hard and will hit American and Israeli interests wherever they are," Talal said. ---------- [The Jerusalem Post] (16:45) BBC: Palestinian group says responsible for WTC attack ------------------------------------------------------------------------ By Miriam Shaviv September, 11 2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine has claimed responsibility for the attacks on the World Trade Center, according to the BBC and Abu Dhabi television. However, DFLP sources have denied any involvement. To read more about the group, click here. It is unclear who is responsible for today's apparent terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York, but it is unlikely that Palestinian groups are involved, said an expert on international terrorism. "They have a lot to lose because America would react very harshly against the Palestinians, however it is not impossible that a radical group was involved," said Eli Carmon, of the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center's counter-terrorism department. Two jets, one of them apparently an American Airlines 767 hijacked from Boston, crashed into the Twin Towers shortly before 9 am. EST. Carmon noted that the World Trade Center has been targeted once before in 1993, when a bombing killed six people and injured more than 1,000. Carmon said that there have been threats by unidentified Islamic groups to target the World Trade Center again if Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman, the militant Egyptian cleric, who is serving a life sentence in the US after his conviction in a plot to bomb the United Nations and New York landmarks, was not released. He added that it is possible that terrorist mastermind Osama Bin-Laden is also involved. Carmon said that the alleged terrorist attack amounts to a "declaration of war" on the US, and that the US will have to "react in an extremely harsh manner." Israel, he noted, had already envisioned the possibility of an air attack, and shot down a small plane that took off from Lebanon in May after it flew menacingly into Israeli airspace. This article can also be read at http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/09/11/News/News.34586.html B [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
