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The United States redesignated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization Friday. The LTTE was among 25 groups including Osama bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda network. US law requires the State Department to notify Congress every two years of the designations to keep sanctions imposed. The initial designations of these groups done in 1997 and 1999 are due to expire on October 8. The Secretary of State, Colin Powell in a statement said that the Real IRA and the Colombian paramilitary United Self-Defence Forces (AUC) had been added as terrorist organisations while the Japanese Red Army and Peru’s Tupac Amaru guerrilla movements had been dropped from the list of banned organisations. The 28 groups now designated “foreign terrorist organisations” are barred from raising money in the United States and US financial institutions are required to freeze their assets. Meanwhile Lord Naseby, addressing the House of Lords on Thursday said that reports from India indicated that the LTTE was training some Al-Queda suicide units in Afghanistan. He urged the British authorities not to confine their investigations only to Arab front organisations in their efforts to overcome terrorism but also extend it to other organisations including the LTTE fronts. “The LTTE terrorists from Sri Lanka are the masters of suicide killings in the world,” he added.
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