'Terrorists'

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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.

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