New List Restricts Alleged Terrorists

WASHINGTON — The State Department put 39 accused foreign terrorist organizations 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.

State Department spokesman Philip T. Reeker said other organizations will be added.

Members of most well-known terrorist groups 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 once-prominent terrorist group now thought to be inactive.

The list includes:

Al Ittihad al Islami, or 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, or 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, or 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

Pentagon Gang

Jamiat ul-Mujahideen

Harkat ul Jihad i Islami

Allied Democratic Forces

Lord’s Resistance Army