'Terrorists'

Wednesday, September 19, 2001 - 10:00

The United States regards seven states and 29 organisations as being officially "terrorist".

Here's a selection: Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Cuba, North Korea and Sudan; Armed Islamic Group (GIA), Algeria; Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP); Palestine Islamic Jihad; Palestine Liberation Front; Hamas, Palestine; Euzkadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA), Basque country, Spain; Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, Egypt; Hezbollah, Lebanon; Japanese Red Army; Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Turkey; Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Sri Lanka; Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C), Turkey; Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA), Peru; Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC); Al Qaida, (Osama bin Laden' s group), Afghanistan.

From GLW issue 465