[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 195 (Friday, October 8, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55112-55113]
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[FR Doc No: 99-26565]



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Department of State





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Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism; Designation of Foreign 
Terrorist Organizations; Notice

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 3130]


Office of the Coordinator For Counterterrorism; 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, 1999, the following 
organization as a foreign terrorist organization:

al Qa'ida
    also known as al Qaeda, also known as ``the Base,'' also known as 
the Islamic Army, also known as the World Islamic Front for Jihad 
Against Jews and Crusaders, also known as the Islamic Army for the 
Liberation of the Holy Places, also known as the Usama Bin Laden 
Network, also known as the Usama Bin Laden Organization, also known as 
Islamic Salvation Foundation, also known as The Group for the 
Preservation of the Holy Sites

    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 redesignate, effective October 8, 1999, the following 
organizations as foreign terrorist organizations:

Abu Nidal Organization
    also known as ANO, also known as Black September, also known as the 
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
Basque Fatherland and Liberty
    also known as Euzkadi Ta Askatasuna, 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, also known as GI
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-Mujahideen
    also known as HUM, also known as 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 the 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 Muhammed
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 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, also known as Forefront of the 
Idea, also known as The Qomemiyut Movement, also known as The Yeshiva 
of the Jewish Idea
Kahane Chai
    also known as Kahane Lives, also known as the Kfar Tapuah Fund, 
also known as The Judean Voice, also known as The Judean Legion, also 
known as The Way of the Torah, also known as The Yeshiva of the Jewish 
Idea, also known as KOACH
Kurdistan Workers' Party
    also known as the PKK, also known as Partiya Karkeran Kurdistan
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
    also known as LTTE, also known as Tamil Tigers, also known as 
Ellalan Force
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, also known 
as National Council of Resistance, also known as NCR, also known as the 
National Liberation Army of Iran, also known as NLA
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-Shallah 
Faction, also known as Palestinian Islamic Jihad, also known as PIJ, 
also known as Islamic Jihad of Palestine, also known as Islamic Jihad 
in 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
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command
    also known as PFLP-GC
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia

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    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, also known as June 78, also known as 
Organization of Revolutionary Internationalist Solidarity, also known 
as Revolutionary Nuclei, also known as Revolutionary Cells, also known 
as Liberation 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 MRTA, also known as the Movimiento Revolucionario 
Tupac Amaru

    I further direct that these designations be published in the 
Federal Register on October 8, 1999, as required by section 
219(a)(2)(A)(ii) of the INA.

    Dated: October 6, 1999.
Madeleine K. Albright,
Secretary of State.
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