WASHINGTON -- The State Department put 39 foreign organizations suspected of links to terrorism on a new "exclusion list" Thursday, barring members from entering the United States and authorizing the deportation of those already in the country. The list, created under the USA Patriot Act passed by Congress shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks, covers organizations that were not already on the State Department's compilation of terrorist groups. It deals only with immigration issues. The administration earlier banned financial transactions with other accused terrorist groups and froze their assets.
The list includes groups and companies from Afghanistan, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Northern Ireland, Pakistan, the Philippines, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, Uganda and Yemen.
Members of most well-known terrorist groups, such as Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, were already excluded from the United States under other statutes, a State Department official said.
The newly designated organizations include Sierra Leone's Revolutionary United Front, a brutal rebel organization best known for hacking off the arms and legs of civilian victims, and the Japanese Red Army, a prominent terrorist group a generation ago but now thought to be inactive.
The list also includes:
Al Ittihad al Islami (AIAI)
Al Wafa al Igatha al Islamia
Asbat al Ansar
Darkazanli Company
Salafist Group for Call and Combat
Islamic Army of Aden
Libyan Islamic Fighting Group
Makhtab al Khidmat
Al Hamati Sweets Bakeries
Al Nur Honey Center
Al Rashid Trust
Al Shifa Honey Press for Industry and Commerce
Jaysh-e-Mohammed
Jamiat al-Ta'awun al-Islamiyya
Alex Boncayao Brigade
Army for the Liberation of Rwanda, a.k.a. Interahamwe
First of October Antifascist Resistance Group (GRAPO)
Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, a.k.a. Army of the Righteous
Continuity Irish Republican Army, a.k.a. Continuity Army Council
Orange Volunteers
Red Hand Defenders
New People's Army
People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD)
Al Ma'unah
Jayshullah
Black Star
Anarchist Faction for Overthrow
Red Brigades-Combatant Communist Party
Revolutionary Proletarian Nucleus
Turkish Hizballah
Jerusalem Warriors
Islamic Renewal and Reform Organization
The Pentagon Gang
Jamiat ul-Mujahideen
Harakat ul Jihad I Islami
The Allied Democratic Forces
The Lord's Resistance Army
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