This complicity was made clearer when Chavez appealed to the international community to remove the FARC from the international list of terrorist organizations.

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The Abu Sayyaf is on the U.S. list of terrorist organizations.

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In November, about 150 Republicans and Democrats in the House of Representatives issued a statement saying that the MEK should be taken off the State Department's list of terrorist organizations, calling it a legitimate democratic opposition group.

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The Palestinian Authority is dependent on outside foreign assistance, and since Hamas is on the State Department's list of terrorist organizations the Bush Administration has made clear it has no plans to fund or deal with a Hamas-led Palestinian Authority.

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The group was put on the list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations, which includes more than 50 groups like al Qaeda and Hezbollah, in 1997 because of the killing of six Americans in Iran in the 1970s and an attempted attack against the Iranian mission to the United Nations in 1992.

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This includes its recent petition for removing the Colombian FARC and ELN from the list of "terrorist organizations, " despite that they have kidnapped over 700 people, are involved in arms and drug trafficking, have employed car and gas cylinder bombs, landmines, extortion, hijacking, and enrolled by force poor children in their army to reach their goals.

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The State Department dropped the Japanese Red Army and the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement from its list of designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations.

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MPAC, the pro-Muslim advocacy group that al-Marayati helped found, has urged that the militant groups Hezbollah and Hamas be removed from the list of U.S.-designated terrorist organizations, according to the Investigative Project's report.

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Central to the implementation of that decision was the removal of Iraq from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, despite Baghdad's continued, vigorous support to international terrorist organizations.

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