9 Foreign Terrorist Organizations that should NOT be there in the USA Terrorism Watch

Source: When is a terrorist no longer a terrorist? | FP Passport

• The Abu Nidal Organization — a PLO splinter group — was a major terrorist organization in the 1980s and 1990s, but has barely been heard from since Abu Nidal’s death in 2002.

 

• Aum Shinriyko, the Japanese cult that carried out the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995, hasn’t carried out any attacks since.

 

• ETA — the decades-old Basque nationalist group, is thought to have fewer than 100 active members since hundreds were arrested by French and Spanich police, and hasn’t carried out a major attack since 2009.

 

• The Continuity Irish Republican Army may have fewer than 50 members, and these days spends more time on political infighting than planning attacks.

 

• Gama’a al-Islamiyya  was once Egypt’s largest terrorist group and it’s former spiritual leader, “Blind Sheikh” Omar Abdul Rahman is in jail in the U.S. for his part in the 1993 World Trade Center attack, but the group has largely renounced violence since the early 2000s and now has its own political party with seats in the Egyptian parliament.

 

• The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were decimated by a Sri Lankan army offensive in 2009 and despite reports of regrouping abroad, the Tigers haven’t been able to mount any major operations since.

 

• The Morrocan Islamic Combatant Group was one of the organizations implicated in the 2004 Madrid train bombings but hasn’t been heard from since.

 

• Revolutionary Organization 17 November,  a leftist Greek militant group that targed U.S. and NATO targets in the 1980s and ’90s, hasn’t carried out any attacks since 2002.

 

• United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia — a right-wing paramilitary anti-FARC group — was mostly demobilized in 2010 and the elements of it that remain are more of a drug trafficking organization than a terrorist militia.

FBI’s National Security Threat List: Who’s on the NSL?

The FBI’s National Security List (NSL) has two parts, the Issues Threat List (activities that get you on the list) and the classified Country Threat List (states whose activities are “so hostile, or of such concern” that investigations are warranted).

1. Russia
2. China
3. Syria
4. North Korea
5. Iran
6. Belarus
7. Cuba
8. Sudan
9. Democratic Republic of the Congo
10. Republic of the Congo
11. Somalia
12. Myanmar (Burma)
13. Bosnia
14. Vietnam
15. Libya
16. Côte d’Ivoire/Ivory Coast

Classified Country Threat List

1. Japan
2. Israel
3. France
4. South Korea
5. Taiwan
6. India
7. UK
8. Germany
9. Netherlands
10. Belgium
11. Canada
12. Iraq
13. South Yemen

Top 10 Worst Hedlines from Newspapers

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Headlines that editors probably wish they could take back

 

1. Efforts Meant to Help Workers Batter South Africa’s Poor —The New York Times 9/26/10
2. Christine O’Donnell’s Masturbation Stance —ABCnews.com 9/16/10
3. Beating Death Becomes Rallying Cry in Egypt
   —The Wall Street Journal 6/26/10
4. Butts Arrested in Boob Murder Case
   —WTAJ-TV website 9/2/10
5. SCHOOLS: Abstinence still focus, parents can opt out
   —Asheville (NC) Citizen-Times 8/8/10
6. BASEBALL NOTES:
   Rangers’ Hamilton to get shot for sore knee
   —Austin American-Statesman 9/1/10
7. Computers for kids missing in Iraq
   —The Orange County Register 8/28/10
8. Mayor unveils Black homicide plan
   —Defender (Houston, TX) 1/18-24/09
9. Public Help Sought in Shooting of Neighborhood Cat
   —KGMI.com 8/19/10
10. Cyclists battling hunger
    —The Times (Trenton, N.J.) 9/11/10