Three more Middle Eastern groups are on the list of terrorist organizations designated by the U.S. State Department. Secretary of State Colin Powell designated the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a Palestinian militia linked to the Fatah faction of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. The Salafist Group for Call and Combat, an Algerian group dedicated to the overthrow of the Algerian government, and Asbat al-Ansar, a Sunni Muslim group based in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, were also named as terror groups. The Salafist group may have ties to Al Qaeda.
Al-Aqsa should have been there the first time it popped up above the background noise. Likewise the Salafists - as close as the world has to pure, unadulterated evil. |