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TEXT: STATE DEPARTMENT LIST OF TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS

(Notice in the Federal Register) (1270)

Terrorist organizations are subject to economic sanctions under U.S. law.

Besides a number of Islamic groups in the Middle East, the list also contains some Jewish groups and groups in Asia, Europe and Latin America.

The text of the State Department's notice in the October 8 Federal Register follows:

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Abu Nidal Organization: also known as the ANO, also known as Black September, also known as Fatah Revolutionary Council, also known as the Arab Revolutionary Council, also known as the Arab Revolutionary Brigades, also known as the Revolutionary Organization of Socialist Muslims

Abu Sayyaf Group: also known as Al Harakat Al Islamiyya

Armed Islamic Group: also known as GIA, also known as Groupement Islamique Arme, also known as AIG, also known as Al-Jama'ah al-Islamiyah al- Musallah

Aum Shinrikyo: also known as Aum Supreme Truth, also known as A.I.C. Sogo Kenkyusho, also known as A.I.C. Comprehensive Research Institute

Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine-Hawatmeh Faction: also known as the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, also known as the DFLP, also known as the Red Star Forces, also known as the Red Star Battalions

Euzkadi Ta Askatasuna: also known as Basque Fatherland and Liberty, also known as ETA

Gama'a al-Islamiyya: also known as the Islamic Group, also known as IG, also known as al-Gama'at, also known as Islamic Gama'at, also known as Egyptian al-Gama'at al-Islamiyya

HAMAS: also known as the Islamic Resistance Movement, also known as Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya, also known as Students of Ayyash, also known as Students of the Engineer, also known as Yahya Ayyash Units, also known as Izz Al-Din Al-Qassim Brigades, also known as Izz Al-Din Al-Qassim Forces, also known as Izz Al-Din Al-Qassim Battalions, also known as Izz al-Din Al Qassam Brigades, also known as Izz al-Din Al Qassam Forces, also known as Izz al-Din Al Qassam Battalions

Harakat ul-Ansar: also known as HUA, also known as al-Hadid, also known as al-Hadith, also known as al-Faran Hizballah also known as Party of God, also known as Islamic Jihad, also known as Islamic Jihad Organization, also known as Revolutionary Justice Organization, also known as Organization of the Oppressed on Earth, also known as Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine, also known as Organization of Right Against Wrong, also known as Ansar Allah, also known as Followers of the Prophet Muhammad

Japanese Red Army: also known as Nippon Sekigun, also known as Nihon Sekigun, also known as the Anti-Imperialist International Brigade, also known as the Holy War Brigade, also known as the Anti-War Democratic Front, also known as the JRA, also known as the AIIB al-Jihad also known as Egyptian al-Jihad, also known as Vanguards of Conquest, also known as Vanguards of Victory, also known as Talai'i al-Fath, also known as Tala'ah al-Fatah, also known as Tala'al al-Fateh, also known as Tala' al-Fateh, also known as Talaah al-Fatah, also known as Tala'al-Fateh, also known as New Jihad, also known as Egyptian Islamic Jihad, also known as Jihad Group

Kach: also known as the Repression of Traitors, also known as Dikuy Bogdim, also known as DOV, also known as the State of Judea, also known as the Committee for the Safety of the Roads, also known as the Sword of David, also known as Judea Police

Kahane Chai: also known as Kahane Lives, also known as the Kfar Tapuah Fund, also known as The Judean Voice

Khmer Rouge: also known as the Party of Democratic Kampuchea, also known as the National Army of Democratic Kampuchea

Kurdistan Workers' Party: also known as the PKK, also known as the Partiya Karkeran Kurdistan

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam: also known as LTTE, also known as Tamil Tigers, also known as Ellalan Force

Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front Dissidents: also known as the FPMR/D, also known as the Frente Patriotico Manuel Rodriguez-Autonomos, also known as the FPMR/A, also known as the Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front, also known as the Frente Patriotico Manuel Rodriguez, also known as the FPMR

Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization: also known as MEK, also known as MKO, also known as Mujahedin-e Khalq, also known as People's Mujahedin Organization of Iran, also known as PMOI, also known as Organization of the People's Holy Warriors of Iran, also known as Sazeman-e Mujahedin-e Khalq-e Iran

National Liberation Army: also known as the ELN, also known as the Ejercito de Liberacion Nacional

Palestine Islamic Jihad-Shaqaqi Faction: also known as PIJ-Shaqaqi Faction, also known as PIJ, also known as Islamic Jihad in Palestine, also known as Islamic Jihad of Palestine, also known as Abu Ghunaym Squad of the Hizballah Bayt Al-Maqdis Palestine Liberation Front-Abu Abbas Faction also known as the Palestine Liberation Front, also known as the PLF, also known as the PLF-Abu Abbas

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine: also known as the PFLP, also known as the Red Eagles, also known as the Red Eagle Group, also known as the Red Eagle Gang, also known as the Halhul Gang, also known as the Halhul Squad

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command: also known as PFLP-GC

Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia: also known as FARC, also known as Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia

Revolutionary Organization 17 November: also known as 17 November, also known as Epanastatiki Organosi 17 Noemvri

Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front: also known as Devrimci Halk Kurtulus Partisi-Cephesi, also known as the DHKP/C, also known as Devrimci Sol, also known as Revolutionary Left, also known as Dev Sol, also known as Dev Sol Silahli Devrimci Birlikleri, also known as Dev Sol SDB, also known asDev Sol Armed Revolutionary Units

Revolutionary People's Struggle: also known as Epanastatikos Laikos Agonas, also known as ELA, also known as Revolutionary Popular Struggle, also known as Popular Revolutionary Struggle

Shining Path: also known in Spanish as Sendero Luminoso, also known as SL, also known as the Partido Comunista del Peru en el Sendero Luminoso de Jose Carlos Mariategui (Communist Party of Peru on the Shining Path of Jose Carlos Mariategui), also known as Partido Comunista del Peru (Communist Party of Peru), also known as PCP, also known as Socorro Popular del Peru (People's Aid of Peru), also known as SPP, also known as Ejercito Guerrillero Popular (People's Guerrilla Army), also known as EGP, also known as Ejercito Popular de Liberacion (People's Liberation Army), also known as the EPL

Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement: also known as the Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Amaru, also known as the MRTA

I further direct that these designations be published in the Federal Register on October 8, 1997, as required by section 219(a)(2)(A)(ii) of the INA.

Dated: October 2, 1997. Madeleine K. Albright,
Secretary of State.

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