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>JN Aug. 21, 1998. Vol. 6, No. 149
Islamic Group Threatens the United States
By IsraelWire
The London-based Arabic-language newspaper al-Hayat reports a group
calling itself the Islamic International Front for Fighting Jews
and Crusaders has issued new threats against the United States. It
said the group had sent a statement to its Cairo office saying that
the "holy struggle operations" carried out recently against the
United States would continue "until American forces withdraw from
the land of Islam."
Al-Hayat said it had received the statement, Wednesday, together
with three from the so-called Islamic Army for the Liberation of
the Holy Places, which claimed responsibility for the bombings of
the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The Islamic International
Front statement referred to the Islamic Army for the Liberation of
the Holy Places without specifying that the two groups were linked.
The newspaper said the Islamic International Front for Fighting
Jews and Crusaders issued its first statement in February in the
form of a fatwa, or religious edict, from several radical Islamist
leaders, including Saudi-dissident Osama bin Laden, whose
Afghanistan terror camp was attacked Thursday by the U.S.
The Front statement said: "When the formation of the Army for the
Liberation of the Holy Places was announced through these
operations it was then clear to all, including the American people,
that we were not lying when we gave warnings." It said the US
embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam had "supervised the killings
of 13,000 Somali civilians when the United States led an aggression
against this Muslim country in 1993" -- a reference to the US-led
force that intervened in Somalia under UN auspices to protect
relief efforts.
Al-Hayat said that one of the three accompanying statements from
the Islamic Army for the Liberation of the Holy Places took the
form of an open letter to the Kenyan people. The statement said the
Nairobi bombing was carried out by the Platoon of Martyr Khaled
al-Said and had been targeted only against the American presence in
the Kenyan capital.
The statement said: "It was not the intention of the Islamic Army
to hurt any Kenyan citizens and the responsibility for the whole
operation lies squarely with America. America should compensate the
Kenyan people for bringing war to their land. Your government is at
fault for bringing death to your country by letting America use
your land to kill Muslims in neighboring countries and besiege
their economies."
The statement accused Kenya and Tanzania of cooperating with Israel
as well as the United States. It said: "Cooperating with the
Israelis while they are occupying (Jerusalem's) Aqsa Mosque is
considered a declaration of war against Islam across the world.
Kenya and Tanzania have become the biggest American bases against
Muslims."
Generali Offers $100 Million
By Arutz-7 News Service
The Italian insurance company, Generali, has offered a final
settlement of $100 million to resolve a class action suit brought by
Jews whose insurance policy claims were denied by the insurer
after the war. This settlement comes after it was reported that the
giant insurance concern had offered a $65 million settlement.
Reuters says that the settlement releases Generali from further
liability, according to attorneys who presented the suit to a
federal district judge for final approval. The agreement is subject
to court approval and that of the National Association of Insurance
Commissioners. Generali's board will have the chance to officially
approve the settlement offer when it meets Aug. 28.
Clinton and the King
By Arutz-7 News Service
In response to President Clinton's pastor, who was quoted as
saying that King David committed similar transgressions to those of
the president, Rabbi Yossi Sarid of Mevaseret Zion drew certain key
distinctions between the two situations.
Sarid noted that whereas Clinton was reproved publicly, and still
did not admit his sins until forced to, King David was reproved
privately by the prophet Natan, and still chose to confess his sin
publicly, and even wrote about it in his Psalms. Clinton lied and
resisted pressure over a period of months until he was brought
before a grand jury, noted Sarid, and only then did he finally
admit his misdeeds; King David wholeheartedly repented in direct
response to Natan's first reproof.
"The true test of a person's greatness," said Sarid, "is the extent
to which he grows from the crisis that has befallen him."
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