Enemies of the United States

ENEMIES OF THE UNITED STATES

The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 authorizes the Secretary of State to designate organizations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations. In the absence of action by the Secretary, the organization would be removed from the list. These designations are updated every two years. The Secretary of State may add organizations to the list at any time.

Effects of Designation

It is unlawful for a person in the United States or subject to the jurisdiction of the United States to provide funds or other material support to a designated FTO.

Representatives and certain members of a designated FTO, if they are aliens, can be denied visas or excluded from the United States.

U.S. financial institutions must block funds of designated FTOs and their agents and report the blockage to the Office of Foreign Assets Control, U.S. Department of the Treasury.

Three Criteria for Designation

The organization must be foreign.

The organization must engage in terrorist activity as defined in Section 212 (a)(3)(B) of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

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.

Foreign Terrorist Organizations as of October 8, 1999: <pre> Abu Nidal Organization (ANO) Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) Armed Islamic Group (GIA) Aum Shinriykyo Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA) HAMAS (Islamic Resistance Movement) Harakat ul-Mujahidin (HUM) Hizballah (Party of God) Gama'a al-Islamiyya (Islamic Group, IG) Japanese Red Army (JRA) al-Jihad Kach Kahane Chai Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE) Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, NCR, and many others) National Liberation Army (ELN) Palestine Islamic Jihad-Shaqaqi Faction (PIJ) Palestine Liberation Front-Abu Abbas Faction (PLF) Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC) al-Qa'ida Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) Revolutionary Organization 17 November Revolutionary People's Liberation Army/Front Revolutionary People's Struggle (ELA) Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso, SL) Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) </pre> For Background Information on various terrorist groups, see the Annual Reports by the State Dept.

DISSIDENTS:

A dissident is an exile from their own country who plots and plans the overthrow of the regime in power. There are several exiled dissident groups in the United States, and there are several internecine conflicts that take place on U.S. soil, whether involving the dissidents making a statement about U.S. support of a current regime, or agents of the current regime attacking the exiled dissidents in the U.S. Here's a list of the countries that supply dissidents or factions to United States: <pre> Armenian nationalists Bulgaria Chile Chinese political factions Columbian political factions Cuba and Cuban political factions Eritrean nationalists Ethiopia Greek nationalists Iran Iraq Israel Irish nationalists Islamic extremists KGB Kurdish nationalists Libya Mexican political factions Nicaragua and Nicaraguan political factions North Korea South Korea Pakistani political factions Philippines and Filipino political factons PLO Salvadorean political factions Sikh extremists South Moluccan nationalists South Africa Turkish political factions Taiwan Vietnamese political factions Yemen Arab Republic </pre>

INSURRECTIONISTS:

An insurrectionist is a person in armed opposition to the laws of the United States. There are a number of groups in the United States who regularly resort to violence in the furtherance of their political goals, or who reject with armed force the authority of the U.S. government. Such groups attack families, clinics, and offices, frequently using arson or bombing. They range in political ideology from "rightists" to "leftists" to "extremists" who are not necessarily political but extreme factions of an otherwise legitimate movement. Leftist groups tend to operate under several different names. Rightist groups tend to have the most members. Someone can belong to several different groups. Here's a list of the various groups engaged in insurrection: <pre> American Republican Army Animal-rights extremists Anti-Arab extremists Antinuclear power extremists Antipornography extremists Anti-Semitic extremists Arizona Patriots Armed Resistance Movement Aryan Nations Black Liberation Army Committee of the States Ecology/antitechnology extremists Irish Republican Army Islamic extremists Japanese Red Army Faction Jewish Defense League KKK Los Machateros Puerto Rican Nationalist Group May 19th Communist Movement Mormon polygamist extremists Native American extremists Neo-Nazi organizations Organization of Volunteers for the Puerto Rico Revolution Posse Comitatus Puerto Rican National Liberation Front Red Guerrilla Resistance Religious extremists Revolutionary Fighting Group Right-to-Life extremists White Patriots Party United Freedom Front/Sam Melville-Jonathan Jackson Unit </pre>