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White House: Abbas Must Face Terrorism


(AP/Washington Post) The Bush administration, responding to Palestinian bomb attacks on Israelis, called on Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas Tuesday to confront and dismantle terror structures on the West Bank and in Gaza. White House spokeswoman Claire Buchan said, "Dismantling terror networks is a very high priority, the highest priority." State Department deputy spokesman Philip Reeker said the Palestinian Authority "must act now to dismantle terrorist capabilities, to dismantle the capacity of these terrorist organizations." "There can be no excuse for the violence and terrorist attacks that the Israeli people have been forced to endure," Reeker said.
2003-08-13 00:00:00
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