October 8, 1997, Seattle Times / Los Angeles Times, 3 Are Named To U.S. List Of Terror Groups,

October 8, 1997, Seattle Times / Los Angeles Times, 3 Are Named To U.S. List Of Terror Groups,

WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Madeleine Albright designated 30 foreign organizations as terrorist groups yesterday, triggering a law that freezes their financial assets in the United States, denies U.S. visas to their members and subjects Americans who give them money or weapons to 10 years in prison.

Included in the list of organizations is the Mujahedin Khalq, an anti-Iranian guerrilla group based in Iraq that maintains an office in Washington and has parlayed its anti-Tehran activities into substantial support on Capitol Hill. An administration official said inclusion of the group was intended as a goodwill gesture to Tehran.

Organizations listed for the first time include the Basque group ETA in Spain, Cambodia's Khmer Rouge, Peru's Shining Path and Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, Japan's Aum Shinrikyo and Red Army Faction, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the anti-Turk Kurdistan Workers' Party, Sri Lanka's Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and Egypt's Islamic Group.

A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently blocked the deportation of Palestinians accused of raising money for terrorist organizations, ruling that such activities are protected by First Amendment guarantees of free speech. The administration has appealed that decision.

Left off the list were the Irish Republican Army and the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia.

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. Terrorist groups .

Foreign groups designated as terrorist organizations: . 1. Abu Nidal Organization (Palestinian) . 2. Abu Sayyaf Group (Filipino) . 3. Armed Islamic Group (Algerian) . 4. Aum Shinrikyo (Japanese) . 5. Euzkadi Ta Askatasuna (Spanish) . 6. Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine-Hawatmeh Faction. 7. Hamas (Palestinian) . 8. Harakat ul-Ansar (Pakistani) . 9. Hezbollah (Lebanese) . 10. Gama'a al-Islamiyya (Egyptian) . 11. Japanese Red Army . 12. Al-Jihad (Egyptian) . 13. Kach (Israeli) . 14. Kahane Chai (Israeli) . 15. Khmer Rouge (Cambodian) . 16. Kurdistan Workers Party . 17. Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (Sri Lankan) . 18. Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front Dissidents (Chilean) . 19. Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (Iranian) . 20. National Liberation Army (Colombian) . 21. Palestine Islamic Jihad-Shaqaqi Faction . 22. Palestine Liberation Front-Abu Abbas Faction . 23. Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine . 24. Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command . 25. Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia . 26. Revolutionary Organization 17 November (Greek) . 27. Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front (Turkish) . 28. Revolutionary People's Struggle (Greek) . 29. Shining Path (Peruvian) . 30. Tupac Amaru (Peruvian) .