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In an unprecedented move, 22 countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada, and Australia, issued a joint statement condemning the Islamic Republic of Iran for what they called “hostile actions and extraterritorial operations against individuals on the soil of other countries,” and demanded the immediate cessation of such actions. In the statement, published on Thursday, June 11, the Islamic Republic’s security services were accused of using local and international criminal networks to carry out assassination plots, kidnappings, intimidation, and harassment against dissidents, journalists, and citizens in Europe, North America, and Oceania. The signatories emphasized that attempts...

The HUM is a member of Osama bin Ladin's "Islamic World Front for the struggle against the Jews and the Crusaders"...Fazlur Rehman Khalil, one of the HUM's leaders signed bin Ladin's fatwa in February 1998 calling for attacks on US and Western interests.

Christians singled out for death September 27 2002 Black flags flew over churches and Christian schools were closed in Karachi yesterday as mourners buried seven Pakistani Christian workers murdered by unidentified gunmen who bound and gagged the men before shooting them in the head at point-blank range. "We are very sad. Everyone is in mourning," said the Rev Baz Philip, of the multi-denominational Christian Church in the port city. Police said no arrests had been made since Wednesday's massacre, in the third-floor office of the Organisation for Peace and Justice, a Pakistani Catholic- and Protestant-supported group that gives free legal...

UPDATE 3 - U.S. applies new rules to 22 more 'terrorist' groups   (Adds comments by Rep. Tom Lantos, paragraphs 8-9) By Jonathan Wright WASHINGTON, Nov 2 (Reuters) - The United States on Friday added 22 groups including Hamas and Hizbollah to the list of "terrorist" groups under tight financial controls introduced after the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington. The main pro-Israeli lobbying organization in the United States applauded the decision, saying it showed the Bush administration intended to combat all forms of terrorism. Six groups -- al Qaeda and five allegedly associated groups -- came under the new rules in September. Al Qaeda, led by Saudi-born ...