8 October 1997 Source: http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aces140.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- [Federal Register: October 8, 1997 (Volume 62, Number 195)] [Notices] [Page 52649-52651] From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr08oc97-121] [[Page 52649]] _______________________________________________________________________ Part IV Department of State _______________________________________________________________________ Designation of Foreign Terrorist Organizations; Notice [[Page 52650]] 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, 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 [[Page 52651]] 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] BILLING CODE 4710-25-P ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 17:13:03 CDT Sender: "Speeches/Testimonies by the U.S. Secretary of State Distribution List" From: DOSFAN Subject: 971008 Designation Of Terrorist Organizations U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Office of the Spokesman For Immediate Release Remarks By Secretary Of State Madeleine K. Albright On Designation Of Terrorist Organizations Washington, DC, October 8, 1997 SECRETARY ALBRIGHT: Good afternoon. Today the United States is demonstrating once again its leadership and determination in the struggle against international terror. Under a provision of the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1996, I'm designating 30 groups as foreign terrorist organizations. These designations have three main consequences. First, as of today, it is a crime to provide funds, weapons or other types of tangible support to any of the designated organizations. Second, members and representatives of these organizations are hereby ineligible for visas to enter the United States, and are subject to exclusion from the United States. And third, any funds that these organizations have in our country will be blocked. The Anti-Terrorism Act was designed to put a stop to fundraising in the United States by and on behalf of organizations that engage in or sponsor terrorist acts. President Clinton has rightly identified terrorism as one of the most important security challenges we face in the wake of the Cold War. As the designations made today suggest, terrorism is a worldwide phenomenon. No nation is immune; certainly not the United States - where terrorists have struck from lower Manhattan to Oklahoma City. The United States is responding to that threat with every available tool. We are seeking the help and cooperation of all our citizens, and we seek the help and cooperation of peoples from around the world. This requires a recognition that terrorism is not a self-sustaining enterprise. It needs money and supplies to succeed. Our goal is to make the United States fully a no-support-for-terrorism zone. Our message to anyone who comes into our country intending to raise money for a terrorist organization is, you risk going to jail. And our message to anyone who is part of a terrorist organization and who wants to enter the United States is, you are not welcome here. We are aware that some of the designations made today may be challenged in court. Due process under the law affords this opportunity. But we're also confident that the designations are fully justified, and I would note that they have the concurrence of both the Attorney General and the Secretary of Treasury. I want to emphasize, as well, that our review of organizations under the anti-terrorism law is ongoing. Other groups may be designated at any time. The steps we are taking today of cracking down on fundraising for terror and of banning terrorists from our shores are steps we urge other countries to take within their jurisdiction. By steadily reducing the habitat in which terrorism thrives, we can hope to make terrorists first an endangered species, and ultimately, an extinct one. Thank you very much. (###)