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http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Kurdish-group-added-to-banned-list/2= 005/12/15/1134500956983.html Kurdish group added to banned list December 15, 2005 - 7:34PM The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has been outlawed as a terrorist organisation under the federal government's counter-terrorism laws. Attorney-General Philip Ruddock said the PKK had been listed as a terrorist organisation on the advice of competent authorities. "The PKK has now been included on the list of terrorist organisations proscribed under counter-terrorism provisions of the Criminal Code Act 1995," Mr Ruddock said in a statement. "These provisions make a criminal offence of involvement in recruitment, training, funding and other forms of association or support for proscribed terrorist organisations." Mr Ruddock said members of listed terrorist organisations faced prosecution and penalties of up to 25 years' imprisonment. The PKK is already listed as a proscribed terrorist organisation by the governments of the United Kingdom, Canada, United States and the European Union. It is already subject to federal government counter-terrorism financing regulations, which makes it an offence to have financial dealings with terrorists and allows Australia to freeze a terrorist organisation's assets. The PKK is a Kurdish separatist organisation founded in Turkey in 1974, and is suspected of having been responsible for numerous attacks on civilians and security forces in Turkey in recent times. Mr Ruddock said Australian intelligence agencies had assessed the PKK as continuing to prepare, plan and foster the commission of acts involving threats to human life and serious damage to property. =A9 2005 AAP ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~-->=20 AIDS in India: A "lurking bomb." Click and help stop AIDS now. http://us.click.yahoo.com/X6CDDD/lzNLAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~->=20 -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-o= [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use h= as not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a par= t of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSI= NT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the= included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of inte= lligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, tech= niques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligenc= e related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We= believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as = provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use t= his copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,= ' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml=20 Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ =20
