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Australia lists six Hamas leaders as terrorists
Canberra, Nov 21: Australia listed six senior leaders of the militant Palestinian Hamas group as terrorists today and froze the assets of five charities that it said help fund the organisation`s activities.
Downer said today he had acted because the men and organisations "are involved in terrorism."
The six individuals are sheik Ahmed Yassin, the
leader of Hamas in Gaza; Imad Khalil al-Alami, a member of
the Hamas political bureau in Damascus, Syria; Usama Hamdan,
a senior Hamas leader in Lebanon; Khalid Mishaal, head of the
Hamas political bureau and executive committee in Damascus;
Musa Abu Marzouk, deputy chief of the political bureau in
Syria, and Abdel Aziz Rantisi, a Hamas leader described as
reporting to Yassin.
The charities whose assets were frozen included a
support group based in France called the committee for
charity and aid for the Palestinians; the association for
Palestinian aid in Switzerland; the Palestinian relief and
development fund, or Interpal, headquartered in Britain; the
Palestinian association in Austria, and the Sanbil
association for relief and development, which is based in
Lebanon.
Bureau Report