[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 195 (Wednesday, October 8, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52650-52651]
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[FR Doc No: 97-27030]



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Department of State





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Designation of Foreign Terrorist Organizations; Notice

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

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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.

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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), 
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 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

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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.
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