Al-Hayat: Palestinian organizations ruled out to be expelled from Damascus
Syria-USA, Politics, 6/27/2002

Leaders of four Palestinian organizations which take Damascus as a headquarter have ruled out that the Syrian leadership will respond to the call made by the US President George Bush to expel leaders of these organizations.

The secretary general of the People's Front For the Liberation of Palestine - general command - Ahmad Jibril told the London- based al-Hayat daily in its Wednesday's issue that Bush's statement is an attempt to blackmail and pressure the Syrian leadership.

For his part, the former chairman of the political bureau of the Islamic resistance movement Mousa Abu Marzouk ruled out in similar statements to al-Hayat the Syrian leadership to expel leaders of these organizations.

He said that Syria's identification of terrorism is different from that of Washington. He explained that these organizations for Damascus are resistance and militant movements..

Member of the Islamic Jihad leadership Zeyad Nakhallah said that "our existence in Syria is a media one, while the military and resistance presence is inside Palestine and if Israel and the US can not break the resistance in our land ( Palestinian territories), they want to transfer the battle to other Arab countries." The external leadership official at the People's Front For the Liberation of Palestine Maher al-Taher stressed the right of the Palestinians in Syria to express themselves and to call for restoring back their rights from the Israeli side.

All said Palestinian leaders held a unanimous view that Bush's speech was a cloning to Sharon's stances and regretted that the chairman of the Palestinian territories was in a hurry to welcome Bush's speech before making consultations with the Palestinian leaderships.

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