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Transcript: SUSPECT ABU MEZER CLAIMS HAMAS MEMBERSHIP
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- World News Tonight with Peter Jennings
- Article date:
- August 1, 1997
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AARON BROWN: Among the things authorities have discovered about one
of the suspects, Gazi Abu Mezer, is that he once filled out an application
for asylum in this country and in it he wrote that he'd been arrested
in Israel and he admitted he'd been a member of the militant group
Hamas. Today, officials were trying to explain why that didn't set
off alarm bells. Here's ABC's John McWethy.
JOHN MCWETHY, ABC News: (voice-over) New York City officials were
obviously angry today at the idea that Gazi Ibrahim Abu Mezer had
told federal authorities he might have ties to a terrorist organization
and was still allowed to slip into their city.
Mayor RUDOLPH GIULIANI, New ...