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UK expands terror funds list

UK expands terror funds list

BBC, Nov. 2, 2001
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1635000/1635382.stm Off-site Link
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Another 25 groups have been added to a UK government list of organisations whose assets it wants to freeze as part of the fight against terrorism.

The groups include the republican dissidents the Real IRA, Basque separatist organisation ETA, Peru's Shining Path and the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo.
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It is the third time the UK Treasury - this time in co-ordination with the US authorities - has given such a list to financial institutions.
But it is a much broader list than the previous two - one of groups believed connected to terrorist suspect Osama bin Laden, and one of individuals in Britain thought to have ties to his al-Qaeda network.
[...]

The full list from the UK Treasury reads:
  • Abu Nidal Organisation
  • Aum Shinrikyo
  • Babbar Khalsa
  • Basque Fatherland and Liberation (ETA)
  • Gama'a al-Islamiyya (Islamic Group)
  • Hamas-Izz al-Din al-Qassem
  • Hezbollah External Security Organisation
  • International Sikh Youth Federation
  • Kahane Chai (Kach)
  • Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
  • Lashkar-e-Tayyaba
  • Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
  • Mujahedeen Khalq Organisation (MEK), not including the National Council of Resistance of Iran
  • National Liberation Army
  • Palestinian Islamic Jihad
  • Palestine Liberation Front
  • Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
  • PFLP-General Command
  • Real IRA
  • Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
  • Revolutionary Nuclei (formerly ELA)
  • Revolutionary Organisation 17 November
  • Revolutionary People's Liberation Army/Front
  • Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso)
  • United Self Defence Forces of Colombia (AUC)
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Commentary:
Note: after the 1995 gas attacks committed by Aum Shinrikyo, some American cult defenders - on a trip to Japan paid for by the cult - declared that the group could not have produced the Sarin poison gas. Mercifully, these blind guides have thus far refrained from meddling in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist acts.

One of the Americans, James Lewis, told a hostile and evidently incredulous roomful of Japanese reporters gathered at an Aum office Monday that the cult could not have produced the rare poison gas, sarin, used in both murder cases. He said the Americans had determined this from photos and documents provided by Aum.
Source: Tokyo Cult Finds an Unlikely SupporterOff-site Link, Washington Post

He was accompanied by two Santa Barbarans - J. Gordon Melton, director of the Institute for the Study of American Religions, and James R. Lewis, director of the Association of World Academics for Religious Education--and Thomas Banigan of Anver Bioscience Design Inc. in Sierra Madre.
Source: Alleged Persecution of Cult InvestigatedOff-site Link, Los Angeles Times

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