U.K. Will Ban 21 Terrorist Groups

Under Section 123(4)(a) of the Terrorism Act, Jack Straw, Home Secretary recommended to Parliament that the following organizations be added to the list of proscribed organizations in Schedule 3 to the Act: Al-Qa’ida, which is led by Osama bin Laden; Egyptian Islamic Jihad; Al-Gama’at al-Islamiya; Armed Islamic Group (Groupe Islamique Armée) (GIA); Salafist Group for Call and Combat (Group Salafiste pour la Prédication et la Combat) (GSPC); Babbar Khalsa; International Sikh Youth Federation; Harakat Mujahideen; Jaish e Mohammed; Lashkar e Tayyaba; Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE); Hizballah Externa Security Organization; Hamas-Izz al Din-Al-Qassem Brigades; Palestinian Islamic Jihad - Shaqaqi; Abu Nidal Organization; Islamic Army of Aden; Mujaheddin e Khalq; Kurdistan Workers’ Party (Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan) (PKK); Revolutionary Peoples’ Liberation Party - Front (Devrimci Halk Kurtulus Partisi - Cephesi) (DHKP-C); Basque Homeland and Liberty (Euskadi ta Askatasuna) (ETA); and 17 November Revolutionary Organization (N17)…[more]