52650 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 195 / Wednesday, October 8, 1997 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

Office of the Coordinator for

Counterterroism

[Public Notice 2612]

Designation of Foreign Terrorist

Organizations

AGENCY: Department of State.

ACTION: Designation of Foreign Terrorist

Organizations.

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, § 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), I hereby designate, effective

October 8, 1997, the following

organizations as foreign terrorist

organizations:

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 AlJama’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 alGama’at, also known as Islamic

Gama’at, also known as Egyptian alGama’at al-Islamiyya

HAMAS

also known as the Islamic Resistance

Movement, also known as Harakat alMuqawama 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 AlQassim 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 alHadid, 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 alFatah, 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
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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 as Dev 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.

[FR Doc. 97–27030 Filed 10–7–97; 5:00 pm]

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