America’s LTTE ban continues

[October 03, 2003 - 8.00 GMT]

The United States re-designated 25 militant groups as ‘foreign terrorist organizations’ on Thursday 2nd October. On the list are the LTTE and the al-Qaeda network.  

The State Department’s announced its new list after reviewing its 1999 blacklist, due to expire tomorrow, October 04. 

The US sanctions against these groups include a ban on US visas for their members, a freeze of their assets in the US and a prohibition on any US citizen or person under US jurisdiction providing assistance to them. 

These 25 foreign terrorist groups were blacklisted in 1997 and 1999. 

They include: 

  1. Abu Nidal Organization (ANO)
  2. Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG)
  3. Armed Islamic Group (GIA)
  4. Aum Shinriykyo
  5. Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA)
  6. Gama'a al-Islamiyya (Islamic Group, IG)
  7. HAMAS (Islamic Resistance Movement)
  8. Harakat ul-Mujahidin (HUM)
  9. Hizballah (Party of God)
  10. Japanese Red Army (JRA)
  11. al-Jihad
  12. Kahane Chai
  13. Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
  14. Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE)
  15. Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, NCR, and many others)
  16. National Liberation Army (ELN)
  17. Palestine Islamic Jihad-Shaqaqi Faction (PIJ)
  18. Palestine Liberation Front-Abu Abbas Faction (PLF)
  19. Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
  20. Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC)
  21. al-Qaida
  22. Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
  23. Revolutionary Organization 17 November (17 November)
  24. Revolutionary People's Liberation Army/Front (DHKP/C)
  25. Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso, SL)

     

 

 

 

 

 

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Last Updated Date: October 03, 2003  -8.00 GMT.
 


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