The State Department condemned today’s terrorist raid on Kibbutz Misgav Am in northern Israel as a “brutal act” and “senseless act of terrorism perpetrated by Palestinian terrorists.” The State Department’s chief spokesman, Hodding Carter, said “There can be no justification of any sort for such an outrage in which innocent people, including one infant, were killed.” He said “very little is known” about the Arab Liberation Front, the group which claimed responsibility for the outrage
Questioned by reporters about the terrorist group’s Iraqi connection, the spokesman said “That’s all I have on it,” but added, these are. Palestinian terrorists.” Asked if he was exempting the Palestine Liberation Organization, he replied, “The PLO is a wide enough umbrella” to include this terrorist group.
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