From: "Stasi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Peoples War] EU/Ire: Six Irish groups placed on EU terror list - Ananova Ananova : Six Irish groups placed on EU terror list =========================== The European Union has introduced a package of anti-terrorism measures, branding six Irish groups as terrorists. For the first time, EU governments have drawn up a list of domestic organisations accused of terrorism by all 15 members. It includes the Continuity IRA and Real IRA along with protestant groups, the Loyalist Volunteer Force, the Orange Volunteers, the Red Hand Defenders and the Ulster Defence Association/Ulster Freedom Fighters. Also on the list are the Basque separatist group Eta, and the Greek far-left group November 17, responsible for the murder of British military attache Brigadier Stephen Saunders in Athens in June 2000. The EU has also frozen the assets of Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas Izzedine al-Qassam, which it describes as the terrorist wing of Hamas. Individuals targeted included Imad Mughniyeh, who the EU named as a senior intelligence officer of Lebanon's Hezbollah group, along with two other Lebanese citizens, four Saudis and a Kuwaiti. The package also included a common definition of terrorist crimes accepted by all 15 EU nations: agreement to deny safe haven to terrorists, their supporters or financial backers; enhanced cooperation and information exchange and tighter monitoring of asylum seekers to ensure terrorists do not become refugees. Officials said national governments would act individually against those domestic groups. They also said naming the groups as terrorists would further isolate them and make it easier for police around the EU to cooperate. Story filed: 12:52 Friday 28th December 2001 _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
