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Article: Ranteesi denies having bank accounts in Britain
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- March 25, 2004
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Ranteesi denies having bank accounts in Britain
GAZA, March 25 (Xinhua) -- Abdel-Aziz Ranteesi, the newly named
Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) leader, mocked Thursday on the
British Finance Minister Gordon Brown's decision to freeze his bank
accounts in Britain.
"I don't have any bank accounts whether in Palestine or elsewhere,
I even owe people some money at this very moment," he said,
describing the British decision to freeze the bank accounts of five
Hamas members as "a new step that supports the Zionist terrorism."
The British Finance Ministry stated in ...