Friday, July 9, 2010

(NEWS) US Investigating IHH

"The State Department is considering designating the Turkish NGO IHH as a terrorist organization, according to acting department spokesman Mark C. Toner.

'I believe we're looking at the IHH, but it's a long process to designate something – an organization a Foreign Terrorist Organization and there's nothing to announce on that,' Toner said at a daily press briefing on Wednesday. Toner was asked whether such an investigation would occur after a bipartisan group of 87 senators wrote President Obama last month requesting that IHH be added to the list of foreign terrorist organizations.

The June 21 letter, initiated by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, supported Israel's right to self-defense following the violent confrontation that occurred between Israeli commandos and IHH operatives on the Mavi Marmara ship on May 31st."










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