The US State Department has released a list designating foreign terrorist organizations whose members are subject to being barred from entering the US. The list includes the following groups –
- Abu Nidal Organization
- Abu Sayyaf Group
- Armed Islamic Group
- Aum Shinrikyo
- Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine-Hawatmeh Faction
- Euzkadi Ta Askatasuna
- Gama’a al-Islamiyya
- HAMAS
- Harakat ul-Ansar
- Hizballah
- Japanese Red Army
- al-Jihad
- Kach
- Kahane Chai
- Khmer Rouge
- Kurdistan Workers’ Party
- Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
- Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front Dissidents
- Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization
- National Liberation Army
- Palestine Islamic Jihad-Shaqaqi Faction
- Palestine Liberation Front – Abu Abbas Faction
- Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
- Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command
- Revolutionary Organization 17 November
- Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front
- Revolutionary People’s Struggle
- Shining Path
- Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement
Many of these organizations are known by other names and a complete list of all the organizations, with their alias names, can be found at page 52649 of the October 8, 1997 Federal Register.
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