Redesignation of Foreign Terrorist Organizations

Document Headings Document headings vary by document type but may contain the following: the agency or agencies that issued and signed a document the number of the CFR title and the number of each part the document amends, proposes to amend, or is directly related to the agency docket number / agency internal file number the RIN which identifies each regulatory action listed in the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions See the Document Drafting Handbook for more details. Department of State [Public Notice 4501] Pursuant to section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended, 8 U.S.C. 1189 , the Secretary of State or the Deputy Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury and the Attorney General, hereby redesignates, effective October 2, 2003, the following organizations as foreign terrorist organizations: Abu Nidal Organization Abu Sayyaf Group Armed Islamic Group Aum Shinrikyo Basque Fatherland and Liberty Gama'a al-Islamiyya HAMAS Harakat ul-Mujahideen Hizballah al-Jihad Kahane Chai Kurdistan Workers' Party Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam 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 al-Qa'ida Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia Revolutionary Nuclei Revolutionary Organization 17 November Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front Shining Path 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 Also known as Al Harakat Al Islamiyya Also known as GIA Also known as Groupement Islamique Arme Also known as Al-Jama'ah al-Islamiyah al-Musallah Also known as Aleph Also known as Aum Supreme Tr…