WASHINGTON: The U.S. State Department has designated the
Abdallah Azzam Brigades, a group based in Lebanon and the Arabian Peninsula and
accused of indiscriminate rocket attacks on Israeli civilians, as a Foreign
Terrorist Organization, it said on Thursday.
"AAB has repeatedly articulated its intent to carry out
attacks against Western interests in the Middle East. In 2010, for instance,
the group expressed an interest in kidnapping U.S. and British tourists in the
Arabian Peninsula," the department said in a statement.
Thursday's
designation prohibits "knowingly providing material support or resources
to, or engaging in transactions with, the Abdallah Azzam Brigades, and the
freezing of all property and interest in property of the organization that are
in the United States," the statement said.
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