Brussels, 19/06/2002 (Agence Europe) - The list of terrorists and terrorist organisations adopted on Monday by the General Affairs Council (see EUROPE of 17/18 June, p.5) was published in the Official Journal L 160. It now includes 8 people and 20 entities or groups whose assets will be frozen:
Persons: Al-Mughassil (Saudi Arabia), Al-Nasser (Saudi Arabia), Al Yacoub (Saudi Arabia), Atwa (Lebanon), El-Hoorie (Saudi Arabia), Izz-Al-Din (Lebanon), Mohammed (Kuwait), and Mughniyah (Hezbolla-Lebanon).
Groups and entities: 1) Abu Nidal Organisation (aka Fatah Revolutionary Council, Arab Revolutionary Brigades, Black September, and Revolutionary Organisation of Socialist Muslims); 2) Al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigade; 3) Aum Shinrikyo (aka AUM, aka Aum Supreme Truth, aka Aleph); 4) Babbar Khalsa; 5) Gama'a al-Islamiyya (Islamic Group) (aka Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, IG); 6) Hamas-Izz al-Din al-Qassem (terrorist wing of Hamas); 7) Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development; 8) International Sikh Youth Federation (ISYF); 9) Kahane Chai (Kach); 10) Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK); 11) Lashkar Tayyaba (LET)/Pashan-e-Ahle Hadis; 12) Mujahedin-e Khalq Organisation (MEK or MKO) [minus the 'National Council of Resistance of Iran' (NCRI)] (aka The National Liberation Army of Iran (NLA, the militant wing of the MEK), the People's Mujahidin of Iran (PMOI), Muslim Iranian Students' Society]; 13) Palestine Liberation Front (PLF); 14) Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ); Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP); Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (aka PFLP-General Command, aka PFLP-GC); 17) Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC); 18) Revolutionary People's Liberation Army/Front/Party (DHKP/C), (aka Devrimci Sol (Revolutionary Left), Dev Sol); 19) Shining Path (SL) (Sendero Luminoso); and 20) United Self-Defence Forces/Group of Colombia (AUC) (Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia).