The United States lashed out at Hezbollah after the fundamentalist group threatened to destroy the U.S. embassy in Israel and kill its diplomats if the mission was moved to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv. “We find these types of threats to be outrageous. Certainly it demonstrates Hezbollah’s continuing support for terrorism,” said State Department spokesman Philip Reeker.
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