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FACT SHEET
Office of the Spokesman
Washington, DC
October 5, 2001

Fact Sheet: Secretary of State designates Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO's)

The Secretary of State designates Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO's), in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretary of the Treasury. These designations are undertaken pursuant to the Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended by the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996. FTO designations are valid for two years, after which they must be redesignated or they automatically expire. Redesignation after two years is a positive act and represents a determination by the Secretary of State that the organization has continued to engage in terrorist activity and still meets the criteria specified in law.

Current List of Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations

(as of October 5, 2001)

Legal Criteria for Designation

Effects of Designation


** The Immigration and Nationality Act defines terrorist activity to mean: any activity which is unlawful under the laws of the place where it is committed (or which, if committed in the United States, would be unlawful under the laws of the United States or any State) and which involves any of the following:

Released on October 5, 2001



Federal Register: October 5, 2001 (Volume 66, Number 194)
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism

[Public Notice 3795]

 
Redesignation of Foreign Terrorist Organization

AGENCY: Department of State.

ACTION: Redesignation of foreign terrorist organizations.

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    Pursuant to Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act 
("INA"), as added by the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty 
Act of 1996, Pub. L. No. 104-132, Sec. 302, 110 Stat. 1214, 1248 
(1996), and amended by the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant 
Responsibility Act of 1996, Pub. L. No. 104-208, 110 Stat. 3009 (1996), 
the Secretary of State hereby redesignates, effective October 5, 2001, 
the following organizations as foreign terrorist organizations:

Abu Nidal Organization

Also known as ANO
Also known as Black September
Also known as the 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 Al-Jama'ah al-Islamiyah al-Musallah

Aum Shinrikyo

Also known as Aleph
Also known as Aum Supreme Truth
Also known as A.I.C. Sogo Kenkyusho
Also known as A.I.C. Comprehensive Research Institute

Basque Fatherland and Liberty

Also known as Euzkadi Ta Askatasuna
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
Also known as GI

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-Mujahideen

Also known as HUM
Also known as Harakat ul-Ansar
Also known as HUA

Hizballah

Also known as the 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 Muhammed

al-Jihad

Also known as Egyptian al-Jihad
Also known as New Jihad
Also known as Egyptian Islamic Jihad
Also known as Jihad Group

Kahane Chai

Also known as Kach
Also known as Kahane Lives
Also known as the Kfar Tapuah Fund
Also known as The Judean Voice
Also known as The Judean Legion
Also known as The Way of the Torah
Also known as The Yeshiva of the Jewish Idea
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
Also known as Forefront of the Idea
Also known as The Qomemiyut Movement
and
Also known as KOACH

Kurdistan Workers' Party

Also known as the PKK
Also known as Partiya Karkeran Kurdistan
Also known as the People's Defense Force
Also known as Halu Mesru Savunma Kuvveti (HSK)

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

Also known as LTTE
Also known as Tamil Tigers
Also known as Ellalan Force

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
Also known as National Council of Resistance
Also known as NCR
Also known as National Council of Resistance of Iran
Also known as NCRI
Also known as the National Liberation Army of Iran
Also known as NLA

National Liberation Army

Also known as the ELN,
Also known as Ejercito de Liberacion Nacional

Palestine Islamic Jihad-Shaqaqi Faction

Also known as PIJ-Shaqaqi Faction
Also known as PIJ-Shallah Faction
Also known as Palestinian Islamic Jihad
Also known as PIJ
Also known as Islamic Jihad of Palestine
Also known as Islamic Jihad in Palestine
Also known as Abu Ghunaym Squad of the Hizballah Bayt Al-Maqdis
Also known as the Al-Quds Squads
Also known as the Al-Quds Brigades
Also known as Saraya Al-Quds
Also known as Al-Awdah Brigades

Palestine Liberation Front-Abu Abbas Faction

Also known as the Palestine Liberation Front
Also known as the PLF
Also known as 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
Also known as Palestinian Popular Resistance Forces
Also known as PPRF

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command

Also known as PFLP-GC

al Qa'ida

Also known as al Qaeda
Also known as "the Base"
Also known as the Islamic Army
Also known as the World Islamic Front for Jihad Against Jews and 
Crusaders
Also known as the Islamic Army for the Liberation of the Holy Places
Also known as the Usama Bin Laden Network
Also known as the Usama Bin Laden Organization
Also known as Islamic Salvation Foundation
Also known as The Group for the Preservation of the Holy Sites

Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia

Also known as FARC
Also known as Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia

Revolutionary Nuclei

Also known as the 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
Also known as June 78
Also known as Organization of Revolutionary Internationalist Solidarity
Also known as Revolutionary Cells
Also known as Liberation Struggle

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 as Dev Sol Armed Revolutionary Units

Shining Path

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

    Dated: September 28, 2001.

Francis X. Taylor,
Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Department of State.

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