john gulick wrote:
While I'm on the subject of guerillas, did anyone out there notice that
the U.S. gov't (State Dep't I assume) has compiled a list of 30 "most-wanted"
terrorist organizations world-wide, and has vowed to seize assets of these
groups held in the U.S., and harass and deport members and backers of these
groups who reside in the U.S. The NYT piece noted that the IRA/Sinn Fein is
not on the list but the Tamil Tigers are. Has anyone seen the complete
list ? It would be interesting to see if it includes any of the neo-fascist
paramilitary factions of E. Europe (like the Chetniks). Undoubtedly it
includes
the Muslim Brotherhood and Tupac Amaru.
From the U.S. State Department's web site
[http://www.state.gov/www/global/terrorism/terrorist_orgs_list.html]:
Abu Nidal Organization (ANO)
Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG)
Armed Islamic Group (GIA)
Aum Shinrikyo (Aum)
Euzkadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA)
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine-Hawatmeh Faction
(DFLP)
HAMAS (Islamic Resistance Movement)
Harakat ul-Ansar (HUA)
Hizballah (Party of God)
Gama'a al-Islamiyya (Islamic Group, IG)
Japanese Red Army (JRA)
al-Jihad
Kach
Kahane Chai
Khmer Rouge
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front Dissidents (FPMR/D)
Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO)
National Liberation Army (ELN)
Palestine Islamic Jihad-Shaqaqi Faction (PIJ)
Palestine Liberation Front-Abu Abbas Faction (PLF)
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC)
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
Revolutionary Organization 17 November (17 November)
Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C)
Revolutionary People's Struggle (ELA)
Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso, SL)
Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA)
From the nearby FAQ:
-- Foreign organizations that engage in terrorist activity are so tainted
by their criminal conduct that any contribution to such an organization
facilitates that conduct." (Section 301(a)(7)).
-- Therefore, any contribution to a foreign terrorist organization,
regardless of the intended purpose, is prohibited by the statute, unless
the contribution is limited to medicine or religious materials.
