Terrorism: Threat Assessment, Countermeasures and Policy

20. PFLP-General Command (PFLP-GC)
21. al-Qa’ida
22. Real IRA (RIRA)
23. Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
24. Revolutionary Nuclei (formerly ELA)
25. Revolutionary Organization 17 November (17
November)
26. Revolutionary People’s Liberation Army/Front
(DHKP/C)
27. Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso, SL)
28. United Self-Defense Forces/Group of Colombia
(AUC-Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia)
Legal Criteria for Designation
1. The organization must be foreign.
2. The organization must engage in terrorist activity as
defined in Section 212(a)(3)(B) of the Immigration
and Nationality Act.
3. The organization’s activities must threaten the security
of U.S. nationals or the national security (national
defense, foreign relations, or the economic interests) of
the United States.
II. OTHER TERRORIST GROUPS
Alex Boncayao Brigade (ABB)
Army for the Liberation of Rwanda (ALIR)
Continuity Irish Republican Army (CIRA)
First of October Antifascist Resistance Group
(GRAPO)
Irish Republican Army (IRA)
Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM) (Army of Mohammed)
Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LT) (Army of the Righteous)
Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF)
New People’s Army (NPA)
Orange Volunteers (OV)
People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD)
Red Hand Defenders (RHD)
Revolutionary United Front (RUF)
Source: “Patterns of Global Terrorism 2000” annual report, “Foreign Terrorist
Organizations” (FTOs) 2001 biennial report, Office of the Coordinator for
Counterterrorism, U.S. Department of State.
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