Posted on 03/26/2002 2:51:32 PM PST by knighthawk
US diplomats reportedly have toured a facility of a Syrian-based organization listed by the US State Department as a terrorist group.
The London-based al-Hayat newspaper has reported that staff members from the US embassy in Damascus visited the radio station operated by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command.
The group is led by Ahmed Jibril, a former Syrian intelligence officer, and obtains funding from the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The newspaper added that the US diplomats from the American Cultural Center arrived at al-Quds radio in southern Syria in early March in what was described as the first official US contact with the Palestinian group.
A US embassy spokesman confirmed the visit and said it took place in the context of the embassy's program to cooperate with the Syrian media.
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