Fatah Al-Islam Declared A Terrorist Group

WASHINGTON — The Bush administration yesterday placed on its terrorism blacklist an Islamist group in Lebanon blamed for major fighting at a Palestinian Arab refugee camp there. The State Department announced that Secretary of State Rice has designated the Qaeda-inspired Fatah al-Islam, which is suspected of having links with Syria, as a "specially designated global terrorist" group under an executive order aimed at cutting off finances to extremist organizations.