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Article: Palestinian groups vow to target Americans if put on terrorism list.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- November 30, 2001
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip _ As Arab radicals continue to bomb Israeli targets, leaders of militant Palestinian organizations say they are freedom fighters, not terrorists. But they warn they will target 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, in an interview with Knight Ridder Newspapers, was echoed by people throughout the region who argued their ...