30 April 2003
State Department Names 36 Groups as Foreign Terrorist Organizations
(Annual report also identifies 38 other terrorist groups) (430) Following is the list of Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations, determined by the Secretary of State, plus a list of Other Terrorist Organizations from the "Patterns of Global Terrorism: 2002" report released April 30: (begin text) U.S. Department of State Washington, D.C. April 30, 2003 Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations Abu Nidal organization (ANO) Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade Armed Islamic Group (GIA) 'Asbat al-Ansar Aum Supreme Truth (Aum) Aum Shinrikyo, Aleph Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA) Communist Party of Philippines/New People's Army (CPP/NPA) Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya (Islamic Group, IG) HAMAS (Islamic Resistance Movement) Harakat ul-Mujahidin (HUM) Hizballah (Party of God) Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM) Jemaah Islamiya (JI) Al-Jihad (Egyptian Islamic Jihad) Kahane Chai (Kach) Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK, KADEK) Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LT) Lashkar I Jhangvi (LJ) Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK or MKO) National Liberation Army (ELN)-Colombia Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ) Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC) Al-Qaida Real IRA (RIRA) Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) Revolutionary Nuclei Revolutionary Organization 17 November (17 November) Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C) Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC) Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path or SL) United Self-Defense Forces/Group of Colombia (AUC) Other Terrorist Groups Al-Badhr Mujahedin Alex Boncayao Brigade (ABB) Al-Ittihad al-Islami (AIAI) Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) Ansar al-Islam (Iraq) Anti-Imperialist Territorial Nuclei (NTA) Army for the Liberation of Rwanda (ALIR) Cambodian Freedom Fighters (CFF) Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)/ United People's Front Continuity Irish Republican Army (CIRA) Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) First of October Antifacist Resistance Group (GRAPO) Harakat ul-Jihad-I-Islami (HUJI) Harakat ul-Jihad-I-Islami/Bangladesh (HUJI-B) Hizb-I Islami Gulbuddin Hizb ul-Mujahedin Irish Republican Army (IRA) Islamic Army of Aden (IAA) Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade Jamiat ul-Mujahedin Japanese Red Army (JRA) Kumpulan Mujahidin Malaysia (KMM) Libyan Islamic Fighting Group Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (GICM) New Red Brigades/Communist Combatant Party (BR/ PCC) People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD) Red Hand Defenders (RHD) Revolutionary Proletarian Initiative Nuclei (NIPR) Revolutionary United Front (RUF) Riyadus-Salikhin Reconnaissance and Sabotage Battalion of Chechen Martyrs Sipah-I-Sahaba Special Purpose Islamic Regiment The Tunisian Combatant Group (TCG) Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) Turkish Hizballah Ulster Defense Association/Ulster Freedom Fighters (UDA/UFF) (end text) (Distributed by the Office of International Information Programs, U.S. Department of State. Web site: http://usinfo.state.gov)
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