Current List of Foreign
Terrorist Organizations and Other Terrorist Organizations
Author(s): Mark Burgess
The U.S. State Department’s list of Foreign Terrorist
Organizations (FTOs) began in 1997 as a method of
tracking down and striking back against specific terrorist groups around the
world. FTOs
are designated as such based on a demonstrated capability and/or willingness to
engage in terrorist methods that threaten the U.S.
national security interests. These
methods include attacks on U.S.
nationals, and American national defense, military, diplomatic, and economic
interests. The FTO list provides the U.S.
government with the legal authority to conduct prosecutions against U.S.
citizens, or foreign nationals within the country, for aiding — financially,
ideologically or logistically — any designated FTO. FTO designation can also mean certain members
or representatives of the designated terror group can be denied entry to the United
States through
visa rejection or other means. The United
States also
maintains the authority to compel U.S.
financial institutions to freeze any assets linked to an FTO and to report them
to the U.S. Department of the Treasury pursuant to Executive Order 13244.
Below is the current alphabetical listing of FTOs (as of May
5, 2004) with links to the CDI Spotlight articles for
each group. Following that is a list of
Other Terrorist Groups -again including links to CDI Terrorism Project
Spotlights on each group. The compilation
of these Spotlights is ongoing, and, when completed, will compliment the list
of such articles already completed for FTOs.
As of May
5, 2004
, the U.S. State Department has not provided an
official definition as to the specific reasoning behind the designation of
those terrorist groups as Other Terrorist Groups, but it is inferred that these
groups are of lesser consequence than designated FTOs
and thus considered ancillary. Such
groups are also potentially noteworthy as an upsurge in their activities could
lead to them being designated (and in some cases, re-designated) as FTOs.
Please refer to
the bottom of the page for links to other lists pertaining to terrorist
organizations.
All organization names marked with an * link to
an associated CDI article.
Foreign Terrorist
Organizations
* Abu Nidal Organization (ANO)
* Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG)
* Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade
* Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya (Islamic
Group)
* Al-Jihad
(Egyptian Islamic Jihad)
* Al-Qaida (The Base)
* Ansar al-Islam
* Armed Islamic
Group
* Asbat al-Ansar (Band
of Partisans)
* Basque Fatherland
and Liberty (ETA)
* Communist Party
of Philippines/New People’s Army (CPP/NPA)
Continuity Irish
Republican Army
* HAMAS (Islamic
Resistance Movement)
* Harakat ul-Mujahidin
(HUM)
* Hezbollah (Party
of God)
* Islamic Movement
of Uzbekistan (IMU)
* Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM)
Jama'at al-Tawid
wa'al Jihad
* Jemaah Islamiah
(JI)
* Kahane Chai (Kach)
* Kurdistan
Workers' Party (PKK) a.k.a. Kurdistan Freedom and Democracy Congress (KADEK)
* Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LT)
* Lashkar I Jhangvi
(LJ)
* Liberation Tamil
Tigers of Eelam (LTTE)
* Mujahedin-e Khalq
Organization (MEK or MKO)
* National
Liberation Army (ELN-Columbia)
* 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)
* Real IRA (RIRA)
* Revolutionary
Armed Forces of Columbia (FARC)
* Revolutionary
Nuclei
* Revolutionary
Organization 17 November (17 November)
* Revolutionary
People’s Liberation Party/Front (RPLP/F)
* Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC)
* Sendero Luminoso
(Shining Path or SL)
* United
Self-Defense Forces/Group of Columbia (AUC)
Other Terrorist Groups
* Al-Badr
* Alex Boncayao Brigade (ABB)
Al-Ittihad
al-Islami (AIAI)
Anti-Imperialist
Territorial Nuclei (NTA)
Army for the Liberation
of Rwanda (ALIR)
* Aum Shinrikyo
Cambodian Freedom
Fighters (CFF)
* Communist Party
of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-M)
Continuity Irish
Republican Army (CIRA)
* Eastern Turkestan Islamic Movement
* First of October
Antifascist Resistance Group (GRAPO)
* Great East Islamic
Raiders- Front (IBDA - C)
* Harakat ul-Jihad-I-Islami
(HuJI)
Harakat ul-Jihad-I-Islami/Bangladesh
(HUJI-B)
Hizb-I Islami
Gulbuddin
Hizb ul-Mujahedin
Irish National
Liberation Army (INLA)
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 (LIFG)
* Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA)
* Loyalist
Volunteer Force (LVF)
Maoist Communist Center of India
* Moroccan Islamic
Combatant Group (GICM)
New Red
Brigades/Communist Combatant Party (BR/PCC)
People Against Gangsterism and Drugs
(PAGAD)
Peoples War
* Red Hand
Defenders (RHD)
Revolutionary
Proletarian Initiative Nuclei (NIPR)
* Riyadus-Salikhin (Reconnaissance and
Sabotage Battalion of Chechen Martyrs)
* Sipah-I-Sahaba
* Special Purpose
Islamic Regiment
* The New Red
Brigades/Communist Combatant Party
The Tunisian Combatant
Group (TCG)
* Tupac Amaru
Revolutionary Movement (MRTA)
* Turkish Hizballah
Ulster Defense
Association/Ulster Freedom Fighters (UDA/UFF)
Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF)
For more information about terrorists and terrorist
organizations refer to the following:
Immigration and Nationality Act
Antiterrorism and
Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996
U.S. Treasury
list pursuant to Executive Order 13244
Specially Designated
Global Terrorists (SDGTs), which is in
incorporated in the list of Specifically Designated Nationals (SDN) and Blocked
Persons. (Adobe Acrobat format)
Terrorism
Exclusion List
FBI list of Most Wanted Terrorists
United Nations list pursuant to UN
Security Council Resolutions 1267, 1333, and 1390
U.S. State
Department FTO list
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