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Article: Arab Radicals Say They'll Target Americans if U.S. Extends War to Them.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- November 30, 2001
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By Joyce M. Davis, Knight Ridder Washington Bureau Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Nov. 30--GAZA CITY -- As Arab radicals continue to bomb Israeli targets, leaders of militant Palestinian organizations say they are freedom fighters, not terrorists. But they warn that they will start targeting Americans as well as Israelis if the United States extends its war on terrorism to them.
"Our war is with Israel," said Abdel Hakim Masalma, a spokesman in the West Bank for Islamic Jihad, generally considered the most militant Palestinian group. "But if the United States gets in our way, then all of America will become a target."
Masalma's warning, ...