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To: Brumar89 who wrote (125091)	2/26/2004 12:56:24 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

I double-checked the list and found I was wrong on one point. State does not list the whole PLO as terrorist, since State is still pretending that Arafat & co are the "moderates" who have given up terrorism as they promised (as if). So only the Al Aqsa Brigades, which Arafat formed at the beginning this so-called intifada to be Fatah's answer for Hamas, is on the list. The other Palestinian terrorist organizations are on the list as I said: Abu Nidal Organization (ANO) Abu Sayyaf Group Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade Armed Islamic Group (GIA) Asbat al-Ansar Aum Shinrikyo Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA) Communist Party of the Philippines/New People's Army (CPP/NPA) Gama’a al-Islamiyya (Islamic Group) HAMAS (Islamic Resistance Movement) Harakat ul-Mujahidin (HUM) Hizballah (Party of God) Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM) (Army of Mohammed) Jemaah Islamiya organization (JI) al-Jihad (Egyptian Islamic Jihad) Kahane Chai (Kach) Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) a.k.a. Kurdistan Freedom and Democracy Congress (KADEK) Lashkar-e Tayyiba (LT) (Army of the Righteous) Lashkar i Jhangvi Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK) National Liberation Army (ELN) Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) PFLP-General Command (PFLP-GC) al-Qa’ida Real IRA Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) Revolutionary Nuclei (formerly ELA) Revolutionary Organization 17 November Revolutionary People’s Liberation Army/Front (DHKP/C) Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC) Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso, SL) United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) state.gov

To: Brumar89 who wrote (125091)	2/26/2004 8:14:07 AM
From: GST	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

My interest is in the truth. It is true that we are not at war in any conventional sense with anybody in the world. It is also true that we have adopted policies of retribution towards terrorist organizations that have attacked the United States. It is also true that we have adopted policies criminalizing the provision of support to terrorists whether or not they have attacked us. By this logic we are not, for example, at war with HAMAS unless they attack us first, but it is illegal for Americans to provide support for HAMAS (Americans can only define law so far as it applies to Americans and activities in America). So, while it might be illegal to write a check to HAMAS, we are not currently "at war" with HAMAS.