Look carefully at the list below for the one terrorist organization that is NOT listed. And why is it not listed? Simple, our State Department (the one run by Hilary Clinton) has not listed it as a terrorist organization. Give you a clue, just look at the last terrorist organization on this list (just added by the way this last August 12th, but it did not become official until last wednesday, September 1st). And below the list, the reasons given why this terrorist organization is not a terrorist organization by our State Department (and remember, our president controls that department).
Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) are foreign organizations that are designated by the Secretary of State in accordance with section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), as amended. FTO designations play a critical role in our fight against terrorism and are an effective means of curtailing support for terrorist activities and pressuring groups to get out of the terrorism business.
Current List of Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations
- Abu Nidal Organization (ANO)
- Abu Sayyaf Group
- Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade
- Al-Shabaab
- Ansar al-Islam
- 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)
- Continuity Irish Republican Army
- Gama’a al-Islamiyya (Islamic Group)
- HAMAS (Islamic Resistance Movement)
- Harakat ul-Jihad-i-Islami/Bangladesh (HUJI-B)
- Harakat ul-Mujahidin (HUM)
- Hizballah (Party of God)
- Islamic Jihad Group
- Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU)
- Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM) (Army of Mohammed)
- Jemaah Islamiya organization (JI)
- Kahane Chai (Kach)
- Kata’ib Hizballah
- Kongra-Gel (KGK, formerly Kurdistan Workers’ Party, PKK, KADEK)
- Lashkar-e Tayyiba (LT) (Army of the Righteous)
- Lashkar i Jhangvi
- Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
- Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG)
- Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (GICM)
- Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK)
- National Liberation Army (ELN)
- Palestine Liberation Front (PLF)
- Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)
- Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLF)
- PFLP-General Command (PFLP-GC)
- Tanzim Qa’idat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn (QJBR) (al-Qaida in Iraq) (formerly Jama’at al-Tawhid wa’al-Jihad, JTJ, al-Zarqawi Network)
- al-Qa’ida
- al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)
- al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (formerly GSPC)
- Real IRA
- Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
- Revolutionary Organization 17 November
- Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C)
- Revolutionary Struggle
- Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso, SL)
- United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC)
- Harakat-ul Jihad Islami (HUJI)
- Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan
See it above? Now why is the TALIBAN, the original group in Afghanistan not on the above list?
The State Department, however, left the Afghan Taliban off the terror list. The Daily Caller reported last month that key players in the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan were advocating negotiating with certain elements within the Taliban as the U.S. begins to withdraw troops.
At the time, some suggested State’s reasons for failing to include the radical group centered around hope for future rapprochement with the Taliban. That theory was all but confirmed when Gen. David Petraeus and Sen. John Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat, both spoke out saying a political agreement with the Taliban in Afghanistan was necessary.
I don’t know about you, but I think something stinks to high heaven! Like, we are not really in Afghanistan for a military solution anymore, but rather some sort of political shenanigans to let us leave.









