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List blocks U.S. entry for 39 groups©Los Angeles TimesDecember 7, 2001 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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