30 April 2007
U.S. Designates Foreign Terrorist Organizations
List includes 42 groups, 43 others deemed “of concern”
Washington -- The U.S. Department of State designated the following 42 groups as “Foreign Terrorist Organizations” in its Country Reports on Terrorism 2006, released April 30. (See related article.)
1. Abu Nidal Organization (ANO)
2. Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG
3. Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade
4. Ansar al-Sunna (AS)
5. Armed Islamic Group (GIA)
6. Asbat al-Ansar
7. Aum Shinrikyo (Aum)
8. Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA)
9. Communist Party of Philippines/New People’s Army (CPP/NPA)
10. Continuity Irish Republican Army (CIRA)
11. Gama’a al-Islamiyya (IG)
12. HAMAS
13. Harakat ul-Mujahedin (HUM)
14. Hizballah
15. Islamic Jihad Union (IJU)
16. Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU)
17. Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM)
18. Jemaah Islamiya Organization (JI)
19. Al-Jihad (AJ)
20. Kahane Chai (Kach)
21. Kongra-Gel (KGK/PKK)
22. Lashkar e-Tayyiba (LT)
23. Lashkar i Jhangvi (LJ)
24. Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
25. Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG)
26. Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (GICM)
27. Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK)
28. National Liberation Army (ELN)
29. Palestine Liberation Front (PLF)
30. Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)
31. Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
32. Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC)
33. Al-Qaida (AQ)
34. Al-Qaida in Iraq (AQI)
35. Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM -- formerly known as the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC))
36. Real IRA (RIRA)
37. Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
38. Revolutionary Nuclei (RN)
39. Revolutionary Organization 17 November
40. Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C)
41. Shining Path (SL)
42. United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC)
The purpose of the list is to identify and isolate groups by encouraging U.S. friends and allies to deter its citizens from supporting them. Individuals representing these groups can be blocked from admission into the United States, are barred from doing business in the country, and U.S. residents are prohibited from providing them material support.
The report designates an additional 43 organizations as “Groups of Concern.”
1. Al-Badhr Mujahedin (al-Badr)
2. Al-Ittihad al-Islami (AIAI)
3. Alex Boncayao Brigade (ABB)
4. Anti-Imperialist Territorial Nuclei (NTA)
5. Cambodian Freedom Fighters (CFF)
6. Communist Party of India (Maoist)
7. Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)/United People’s Front
8. Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR)
9. East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM)
10. First of October Antifascist Resistance Group (GRAPO)
11. Harakat ul-Jihad-I-Islami (HUJI)
12. Harakat ul-Jihad-I-Islami/Bangladesh (HUJI-B)
13. Hizb-I Islami Gulbuddin (HIG)
14. Hizbul-Mujahedin (HM)
15. Irish National Liberation Army (INLA)
16. Irish Republican Army (IRA)
17. Islamic Army of Aden (IAA)
18. Islamic Great East Raiders–Front (IBDA-C)
19. Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade (IIPB)
20. Jamaatul-Mujahedin Bangladesh (JMB)
21. Jamiat ul-Mujahedin (JUM)
22. Japanese Red Army (JRA)
23. Kumpulan Mujahedin Malaysia (KMM)
24. Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA)
25. Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF)
26. New Red Brigades/Communist Combatant Party (BR/PCC)
27. People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD)
28. Rajah Solaiman Movement (RSM)
29. Red Hand Defenders (RHD)
30. Revolutionary Proletarian Initiative Nuclei (NIPR)
31. Revolutionary Struggle (RS)
32. Riyadus-Salikhin Reconnaissance and Sabotage
33. Battalion of Chechen Martyrs (RSRSBCM)
34. Sipah-I-Sahaba/Pakistan (SSP)
35. Special Purpose Islamic Regiment (SPIR)
36. Al-Tawhid w’al Jihad (TWJ)
37. Tenrik Mifaz-E-Shariah Mohammadi (TNSM)
38. Tunisian Combatant Group (TCG)
39. Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA)
40. Turkish Hizballah
41. Ulster Defense Association/Ulster Freedom Fighters (UDA/UFF)
42. Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF)
43. United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA)
The complete text of Country Reports on Terrorism 2006 is available from the State Department Web site.
(Distributed by the Bureau of International Information Programs, U.S. Department of State. Web site: http://usinfo.state.gov)
