A U.S. lawmaker called on the Bush administration to add Yasser Arafat’s Fatah Party to the State Department’s terrorism list. Rep. Eliot Engel (D.-N.Y.) said the organization, which claimed responsibility for Wednesday’s terror attack that killed 10 Israelis in the West Bank, should be included on the State Department’s Foreign Terrorist Organizations list
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