Jihad lashes out at FBI for naming Shallah as a wanted person

PIC

[ 17/01/2010 - 09:52 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)-- The Islamic Jihad Movement has said that its secretary general Dr. Ramadan Shallah is a freedom fighter and a leader that struggles for the sake of his people's freedom.

Sheikh Nafedh Azzam, one of the Jihad leaders in the Gaza Strip, said in a press release on Saturday that putting the name of Shallah on the FBI's list of wanted persons means that "we are standing in the confrontation trench against the American administration's policy of hegemony and tyranny against our Nation".

He said that his Movement was not interested in winning the US satisfaction.

Azzam described the decision as a new addition to the American hostility to the Palestinian people, Arabs and Muslims.

The Jihad leader said that ever since the early establishment of the Movement its founders were convinced that the US could not be a friend to the Palestinian people or the Arab and Muslim Nation.

He charged that events proved that the US was an "accomplice in the aggression on our people".