U.S. State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations

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"Foreign Terrorist Organization" is a designation of non-United States-based organizations declared terrorist by the United States Secretary of State in accordance with section 219 of the U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). Most of the organizations as of 2007^[update] on the list are Islamist extremist groups, with the remainder being mainly communist groups, followed by nationalist/separatist groups.

Identification of candidates (non reliable)

The Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism (S/CT) in the U.S. State Department continually monitors the activities of groups active around the world considered potentially terrorist to identify potential targets for designation. When reviewing potential targets, S/CT looks not only at the actual terrorist attacks that a group has carried out, but also at whether the group has engaged in planning and preparations for possible future acts of terrorism or retains the capability and intent to carry out such acts.

Designation process

Once a target is identified, the Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism prepares a detailed "administrative record," which is a compilation of information, typically including both classified and open sources information, demonstrating that the statutory criteria for designation have been satisfied. If the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretary of the Treasury, decides to make the designation, United States Congress is notified of the Secretary's intent to designate the organization and given seven days to review the designation, as the INA requires. Upon the expiration of the seven-day waiting period, notice of the designation is published in the Federal Register, at which point the designation takes effect. An organization designated as an FTO may seek judicial review of the designation in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit not later than 30 days after the designation is published in the Federal Register.

Under the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 the FTO may file a petition for revocation two years after the designation date (or in the case of redesignated FTOs, its most recent redesignation date) or two years after the determination date on its most recent petition for revocation. In order to provide a basis for revocation, the petitioning FTO must provide evidence that the circumstances forming the basis for the designation are sufficiently different as to warrant revocation. If no such review has been conducted during a five year period with respect to a designation, then the Secretary of State is required to review the designation to determine whether revocation would be appropriate.

The procedural requirements for designating an organization as an FTO also apply to any redesignation of that organization. The Secretary of State may revoke a designation or redesignation at any time upon a finding that the circumstances that were the basis for the designation or redesignation have changed in such a manner as to warrant revocation, or that the national security of the United States warrants a revocation. The same procedural requirements apply to revocations made by the Secretary of State as apply to designations or redesignations. A designation may also be revoked by an Act of Congress, or set aside by a Court order.

Legal criteria for designation

(Reflecting Amendments to Section 219 of the INA in the 2001 USA PATRIOT Act)

• It must be a foreign organization.
• The organization must engage in terrorist activity, as defined in section 212 (a)(3)(B) of the INA (8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(3)(B)),* or terrorism, as defined in section 140(d)(2) of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 (22 U.S.C. § 2656f(d)(2)),** or retain the capability and intent to engage in terrorist activity or terrorism.
• The organization’s terrorist activity or terrorism must threaten the security of U.S. nationals or the national security (national defense, foreign relations, or the economic interests) of the United States.

Legal ramifications of designation

• It is unlawful for a person in the United States or subject to the jurisdiction of the United States to knowingly provide "material support or resources" to a designated FTO. (The term "material support or resources" is defined in 18 U.S.C. § 2339A(b) as "currency or monetary instruments or financial securities, financial services, lodging, training, expert advice or assistance, safehouses, false documentation or identification, communications equipment, facilities, weapons, lethal substances, explosives, personnel, transportation, and other physical assets, except medicine or religious materials.")
• Representatives and members of a designated FTO, if they are aliens, are inadmissible to and, in certain circumstances, removable from the United States (see 8 U.S.C. §§ 1182 (a)(3)(B)(i)(IV)-(V), 1227 (a)(1)(A)).
• Any U.S. financial institution that becomes aware that it has possession of or control over funds in which a designated FTO or its agent has an interest must retain possession of or control over the funds and report the funds to the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

Other effects of designation

The U.S. Department of State lists the following items as additional considered beneficial effects of designation:

• Supports efforts to curb terrorism financing and to encourage other nations to do the same.
• Stigmatizes and isolates designated terrorist organizations internationally.
• Deters donations or contributions to and economic transactions with named organizations.
• Heightens public awareness and knowledge of terrorist organizations.
• Signals to other governments U.S. concern about named organizations.

Groups designated as Foreign Terrorist Organizations

List is current as of January 19, 2010,^[1] organized by region and country of origin:

Middle East

• Gaza and the West Bank

1. Abu Nidal Organization (ANO) (International, Palestinian)
2. Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades (Palestinian)
3. HAMAS (Islamic Resistance Movement) (Palestinian)
4. Islamic Jihad Group (Palestinian)
5. Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) (Palestinian)
6. Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) (Palestinian)
7. PFLP-General Command (PFLP-GC) (Palestinian)

• Iraq

1. Ansar al-Islam (Iraqi Kurdistan)
2. Kata'ib Hezbollah (Iraq)
3. Kongra-Gel (formerly Kurdistan Workers' Party) (KGK, formerly PKK, KADEK, Kongra-Gel) (Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria)
4. Tanzim Qa'idat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn (QJBR) (al-Qaida in Iraq) (formerly Jama'at al-Tawhid wa'al-Jihad, JTJ, al-Zarqawi Network) (Iraq)

• Lebanon

1. Asbat an-Ansar (Lebanon)
2. Hezbollah (Party of God) (Lebanon)

• Israel

1. Kahane Chai (Kach) (Israel)

• Iran

1. Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK) (Iran)
2. Jundallah (People's Resistance Movement of Iran, or PRMI) (Iran) ^[2]

• Saudi Arabia

1. al-Qa’ida (Global)
2. al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)
3. al-Qa’ida in the Islamic Maghreb (formerly GSPC) (The Maghreb)

Asia

• Japan

1. Aum Shinrikyo (China)

• South East Asia

1. Jemaah Islamiya organization (JI)

• Bangladesh

1. Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (HUJI-B) (Bangladesh)

• Sri Lanka

1. Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) (Sri Lanka)

• Philippines

1. Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) (Philippines)
2. Communist Party of the Philippines/New People's Army (CPP/NPA) (Philippines)

• India

1. Indian Mujahideen (IM) (India)^[3]

• Pakistan

1. Harakat ul-Mujahidin (HUM) (Pakistan)
2. Jaish-e-Mohammed (Army of Mohammed) (JEM) (Pakistan)
3. Lashkar-e Tayyiba (Army of the Righteous) (LET) (Muridke, Pakistan)
4. Lashkar i Jhangvi (Pakistan)
5. Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) (Pakistan)

• Uzbekistan

1. Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) (Uzbekistan)

Africa

1. Al-Shabaab (Somalia)

• Algeria

1. Armed Islamic Group (GIA) (Algeria)

• Egypt

1. Gama’a al-Islamiyya (Egypt)
2. Egyptian Islamic Jihad (Egypt)

• Libya

1. Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) (Libya)

• Morocco

1. Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (MICG) (Morocco)

Europe

• United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland

1. Continuity Irish Republican Army (CIRA) (United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland)
2. Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA) (United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland)
3. Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) (United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland)
4. Ulster Defence Association (UDA) (United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland)

• Greece

1. Revolutionary Organization 17 November (Greece)
2. Revolutionary Struggle (Greece)

• Turkey

1. Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C) (Turkey)

• Spain

1. Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (Basque Fatherland and Liberty) (ETA) (Spain, France)

South America

• Colombia

1. National Liberation Army (ELN) (Colombia)
2. Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) (Colombia)
3. United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) (Colombia)

• Peru

1. Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso, SL) (Peru)

See also

• U.K. List of Proscribed Groups
• List of terrorist organizations

References

1. ^ Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism (January 19, 2010). "Foreign Terrorist Organizations". www.state.gov. U.S. State Department. http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/other/des/123085.htm. Retrieved 17 June 2010. 
2. ^ "US Designates Iran's Jundallah as Terrorist Organization - CNN.com." CNN.com. 3 Nov. 2010. Web. 03 Nov. 2010. <http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/11/03/jundallah.terrorist.designation/index.html
3. ^ "US places Indian Mujahideen on terror list". Express Tribune. September 15 2011. http://tribune.com.pk/story/253036/us-places-indian-mujahideen-on-terror-list/. Retrieved September 17 2011. 

External links

• US Department of State's Foreign Terrorist Organizations, released April 8, 2008 Fact Sheet, upon which this article is based, which also contains the legal references.
• US Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control, 'What you need to know about U.S. Sanctions'
• European Union list of terrorist groups and individuals, 2007
• European Union list of terrorist groups and individuals, january 2009
• Kurth Cronin, Audrey; Huda Aden, Adam Frost, and Benjamin Jones (2004-02-06) (PDF). Foreign Terrorist Organizations. Congressional Research Service. http://www.fas.org/irp/crs/RL32223.pdf. Retrieved on 2009-03-04.
• [1], United States Department of State.
• [2] Indictment of John Walker Lindh.