This may in part be a belated face-saving measure for the Obama administration wonks who allowed Gama’a al-Islamiyya member Hani Nour Eldin into the White House and State Department for “high-level meetings” in 2012. Remove Gama’a al-Islamiyya from the terror list, and the embarrassment goes away.
“US set to remove 5 groups from foreign terrorism blacklist,” Associated Press, May 15, 2022:
BERLIN (AP) — The United States is poised to remove five extremist groups, all believed to be defunct, from its list of foreign terrorist organizations, including several that once posed significant threats, killing hundreds if not thousands of people across Asia, Europe and the Middle East.
Although the groups are inactive, the decision is politically sensitive for the Biden administration and the countries in which the organizations operated, and could draw criticism from victims and their families still dealing with the losses of loved ones….
The U.S. State Department notified Congress on Friday of the moves, which come at the same time as an increasingly divisive but unrelated debate in Washington and elsewhere about whether Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard should or can be legally removed from the U.S. list as part of efforts to salvage the languishing Iran nuclear deal.
That designation, which was imposed by the Trump administration, was not mentioned in Friday’s notifications….
The groups to be removed are:
— Aum Shinrikyo (AUM), the Japanese “Supreme Truth” cult that carried out the deadly sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995 that killed 13 people and sickened hundreds more. The group has been considered largely defunct since the executions of its top echelons, including leader Shoko Asahara, in 2018. It was designated a foreign terrorist organization in 1997.
— Basque Fatherland and Liberty, or ETA, which ran a separatist campaign of bombings and assassinations in northern Spain and elsewhere for decades that killed more than 800 people and wounded thousands more, until declaring a cease-fire in 2010 and disbanding after the arrests and trials of its last leaders in 2018. It was designated a foreign terrorist organization in 1997.
— Kahane Chai, or Kach. The radical Orthodox Jewish group was founded by ultranationalist Israeli Rabbi Meir Kahane in 1971. He led the group until his assassination in 1990. Members of the group have killed, attacked or otherwise threatened or harassed Arabs, Palestinians and Israeli government officials, but the organization has been dormant since 2005. The group was first designated in 1997.
— The Mujahidin Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem, an umbrella group of several jihadist organizations based in Gaza that has claimed responsibility for numerous rocket and other attacks on Israel since its founding in 2012. The council was first designated in 2014.
— Gama’a al-Islamiyya, or Islamic Group–IG, an Egyptian Sunni Islamist movement that fought to topple Egypt’s government during the 1990s. It conducted hundreds of deadly attacks against the police and security forces as well as tourists. The group was first designated in 1997.
The State Department said on Sunday that Blinken was required by law to revoke the designations if the groups no longer met the legal criteria.
Speaking of the Kahane Chai group, the department said it had not been linked to a terrorist attack since 2005. It also said the Mujahidin Shura Council has not claimed an attack since 2013….
Walter Sieruk says
First and foremost ,to keyboard the obvious . Joe Biden , and likewise his crew, are not only awful but dangerous treacherous traitorous and treasonous against America and her people.
It decades past such villainous people would have had been arrested and imprisoned or even executed for treason, That they have not been shows that the insidious subversives have infiltrated the US government.
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Second ,Joe Biden may be defined as either a chronic liar or a pathological liar. By either definition he’s a outright liar.
Biden had lied many times over , again and again, he has no honor at all.
Biden is of such a low an despicable dishonest falsehood speaker that no informed person who has knowledge of Biden real character will never believe anything he says without first checking out the facts.
It may be truly said of lying old Joe that if if would tell a someone “That if Biden ‘It’s raining outside’ that person would be wise to look out of the window before believing him.”
In addition , it’s not exactly a true statement to say that “There are some things wrong with Joe Biden.” The reason why this is so is because the word “some” would put a limit on the number of things that are wrong with and about that awful horrible old man Biden.
Infidel says
I welcome the removal of Kahane Chai from the above list. Like a broken clock, the Biden Administration….
gravenimage says
Of course. this group has been dormant for almost twenty years…
Walter Sieruk says
Since Joe Biden was mentioned is this article , even as a side note, about Biden and his crew letting Iran ruthless band of Muslim thugs ,”Islamic state police” called “Iran’s Revolutionary Guards” off the US State Department blacklist.
Therefore it should be made clear that one of the despicable treasonous acts was that Joe Biden had Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) removed from the blacklist as part of nuclear deal negotiations is because Biden in order to have the November 2020 national election rigged in order for him to enter the Office of the US Presidency was that he allowed those in low and high national and international power ,who are all just as sinister but much more intelligent than him set up a massive election fraud.
One on the international players in that insidious scheme to have their puppet “president ” installed in the Oval Office of the White was that hostile anti- American tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran . Which has as it’s official title “The Islamic Republic of Iran.”
Therefore Biden complies to the demands of those in power in that Islamic tyranny of Iran because he “owes” that “mullah regime” for adding him in obtaining the Office of the President of the United States.
One of the sources for this essay is the video documentary TRUMP CARD by Dinesh D’ Souza
James Lincoln says
Walter Sieruk says
“One on the international players in that insidious scheme to have their puppet “president ” installed in the Oval Office of the White was that hostile anti- American tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran.”
True enough, but the major international player in the election fraud scheme was China.
gravenimage says
Biden’s handlers remove five groups from foreign terrorism blacklist, including two jihad groups
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Have these groups stopped waging violent Jihad? Of course not…
Pray Hard says
Bitin’, like Osambo, will continue his moslem a**-kissing cruise until he’s dead, loses the next election or is removed from office by force. For every moslem group he removes from the list, he’ll add a “white supremacist” group. Just watch.
Pray Hard says
It doesn’t matter. All of these groups, whether “active” or “inactive” are nothing but tentacles of islam and can be instantly raised from the dead, maybe a different name, but exactly the same.