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To: Ilaine who wrote (2671)	1/23/2003 11:07:13 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (1) of 15987

Why shouldn't US officials meet with PKK? Well, perhaps because the US officially declared PKK a terrorist organization. Sorry, I don't have the time to entertain you today, so consider the rest of your post snickered at, and check out the list below: usembassy.state.gov Current List of Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations (as of October 5, 2001) 1. Abu Nidal Organization (ANO) 2. Abu Sayyaf Group 3. Armed Islamic Group (GIA) 4. Aum Shinrikyo 5. Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA) 6. Gama'a al-Islamiyya (Islamic Group) 7. HAMAS (Islamic Resistance Movement) 8. Harakat ul-Mujahidin (HUM) 9. Hizballah (Party of God) 10. Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) 11. al-Jihad (Egyptian Islamic Jihad) 12. Kahane Chai (Kach) 13. Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) 14. Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) 15. Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK) 16. National Liberation Army (ELN) 17. Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) 18. Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) 19. Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) 20. PFLP-General Command (PFLP-GC) 21. al-Qa'ida 22. Real IRA 23. Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) 24. Revolutionary Nuclei (formerly ELA) 25. Revolutionary Organization 17 November 26. Revolutionary People's Liberation Army/Front (DHKP/C) 27. Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso, SL) 28. United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) Effects of Designation Legal 1. It is unlawful for a person in the United States or subject to the jurisdiction of the United States to provide funds or other material support to a designated FTO. 2. Representatives and certain members of a designated FTO, if they are aliens, can be denied visas or excluded from the United States. 3. U.S. financial institutions must block funds of designated FTO's and their agents and report the blockage to the Office of Foreign Assets Control, U.S. Department of the Treasury. PKK is also in the March 2002 list of terrorist organizations: state.gov

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