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Article: United States Warns Terrorist Groups against Retaliatory Attacks.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- March 20, 2003
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Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Mar. 20--WASHINGTON--The Bush administration is warning terrorist groups and their state sponsors to stay on the sidelines as the U.S. launches a war with Iraq, American officials said Wednesday.
The effort is part of an intelligence, diplomatic and law-enforcement barrage designed to head off potential terrorist strikes against the U.S. and its interests overseas--an effort that is in many ways identical to the successful one undertaken at the start of the Persian Gulf war in 1991, officials said.
Of particular concern to U.S. counterterrorism officials is Hezbollah, which is supported ...