Foreign Terrorist Organizations: Palestine Liberation Front (PLF)
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Foreign Terrorist Organizations: Palestine Liberation Front (PLF)
FTOs (Foreign Terrorist Organizations) are foreign groups that the Secretary of State designates “in accordance with section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA)” (“Chapter 6…,” 2012). The designation of FTOs is crucial to fighting terrorism and helps to curtail support for terror activities. Accordingly, section 219 provides criteria for the legal designation of FTOs. First, an organization must be foreign-based in order to be labeled as an FTO. Secondly, the group must be involved in terrorist operations or maintain “the capability and intent to engage in terrorist …show more content…
After holding passengers and the crew for nearly two days, PLF terrorists killed a “disabled American passenger Leon Klinghoffer and threw him overboard” (ADL, 2013). A short standoff followed the incident, but Egypt soon resolved to grant the hijackers free passage on condition that the terrorists released the remaining hostages and the ship. Later, US Navy jets intercepted the plane that was moving the terrorists to safety in Tunisia and diverted it to Italy (“Palestine Liberation…,” 2004). Although the coconspirators involved in the hijacking were quickly convicted and imprisoned, Italian authorities freed Abbas arguing that they lacked adequate evidence to confine him. Nonetheless, Abbas was eventually “convicted in absentia of masterminding the hijacking” (“Palestine Liberation…,” 2004). During Operation Iraqi Freedom, US marines captured Abbas in Baghdad and detained him. The marines also found a weapons cache that included gas masks, explosives, and bomb-making materials at a PLF training camp in the east of Baghdad. Subsequently, President George W. Bush cited Abbas as one of the major terrorists sheltered by the regime of Saddam Hussein (“Palestine Liberation…,”
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Foreign Terrorist Organizations: Palestine Liberation Front (PLF)
FTOs (Foreign Terrorist Organizations) are foreign groups that the Secretary of State designates “in accordance with section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA)” (“Chapter 6…,” 2012). The designation of FTOs is crucial to fighting terrorism and helps to curtail support for terror activities. Accordingly, section 219 provides criteria for the legal designation of FTOs. First, an organization must be foreign-based in order to be labeled as an FTO. Secondly, the group must be involved in terrorist operations or maintain “the capability and intent to engage in terrorist …show more content…
After holding passengers and the crew for nearly two days, PLF terrorists killed a “disabled American passenger Leon Klinghoffer and threw him overboard” (ADL, 2013). A short standoff followed the incident, but Egypt soon resolved to grant the hijackers free passage on condition that the terrorists released the remaining hostages and the ship. Later, US Navy jets intercepted the plane that was moving the terrorists to safety in Tunisia and diverted it to Italy (“Palestine Liberation…,” 2004). Although the coconspirators involved in the hijacking were quickly convicted and imprisoned, Italian authorities freed Abbas arguing that they lacked adequate evidence to confine him. Nonetheless, Abbas was eventually “convicted in absentia of masterminding the hijacking” (“Palestine Liberation…,” 2004). During Operation Iraqi Freedom, US marines captured Abbas in Baghdad and detained him. The marines also found a weapons cache that included gas masks, explosives, and bomb-making materials at a PLF training camp in the east of Baghdad. Subsequently, President George W. Bush cited Abbas as one of the major terrorists sheltered by the regime of Saddam Hussein (“Palestine Liberation…,”