By Michael Freund (Jerusalem Post)
A Web site run by the US State Department that is "designed to bring international terrorists to justice" fails to identify the perpetrators of suicide bombings and other attacks in Israel as Palestinians...
While the site includes names, photographs and background information about terrorists wanted for attacks in places such as the Philippines, Yemen and Italy, it does not provide a single name, biographical detail or even organizational affiliation for Palestinian terrorists involved in the murder of Americans.
Instead, the site obliquely refers to them as "individuals and groups opposed to Middle East peace negotiations" or as "terrorist individuals and groups opposed to a negotiated peace."
... State Department spokeswoman Andrea Rogers-Harper said, "The United States government will pursue the perpetrators of terror attacks against Americans carried out by any group opposed to the peace process regardless of their ethnicity."
"Furthermore," she told the Post via e-mail, "the reward offer applies to information leading to the arrest or conviction of any terrorist responsible for the attacks listed."
Thus far, she said, no such rewards have been offered for information leading to the capture of specific Palestinian terrorists wanted in connection with the murder of Americans.
Nevertheless, Rogers-Harper said, "All cases in which Americans are victims of terrorism are a high priority for the Rewards for Justice program and the US government as a whole."
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