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Country Reports on Terrorism 2005

Released by the Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism
April 28, 2006

U.S. law requires the Secretary of State to provide Congress, by April 30 of each year, a full and complete report on terrorism with regard to those countries and groups meeting criteria set forth in the legislation. This annual report is entitled Country Reports on Terrorism. Beginning with the report for 2004, it replaced the previously published Patterns of Global Terrorism.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Legislative Requirements and Key Terms

Chapter 2. Strategic Assessment

Chapter 3. Terrorist Safe Havens

Chapter 4. Building International Will and Capacity to Counter Terrorism

  • The Antiterrorism Assistance Program The Middle East Partnership Initiative Multilateral and Regional Cooperation
    • The UN Role in Fighting Terrorism
    • G8 Counterterrorism Actions
      • Secure and Facilitated International Travel Security Initiative
      • Counterterrorism Action Group
  • Public Diplomacy
  • Countering Terrorism on the Economic Front
    • Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF)
    • Terrorist Finance Working Group (TFWG)
    • Addressing New Threats and International Requirements
      • Cash Courier Training
      • Advanced Financial Crimes Training
      • OSCE Conference on Terrorist Financing
      • Three Plus One Security Initiative
  • Countering Terrorism on the Consular Front
  • The Rewards for Justice Program
  • The Container Security Initiative
  • International Conventions and Protocols

Chapter 5. Country Reports: Africa Overview
The Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Initiative
African Union
Comoros
Djibouti
Ethiopia
Kenya
Madagascar
Mali
Mauritania
Nigeria
Rwanda
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Africa
Tanzania
Uganda
Zimbabwe

Chapter 5. Country Reports: East Asia and Pacific Overview
Australia
Burma
Cambodia
China
Hong Kong
Macau
Indonesia
Japan
Korea, Republic of
Laos
Malaysia
Mongolia
New Zealand
Philippines
Singapore
Taiwan
Thailand

Chapter 5. Country Reports: Europe and Eurasia Overview
Albania
Armenia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Georgia
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Italy
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Latvia
Lithuania
Macedonia (FYROM)
Malta
Moldova
Netherlands, The
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
Serbia and Montenegro (Kosovo)
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Tajikistan
Turkey
Turkmenistan
United Kingdom
Uzbekistan

Chapter 5. Country Reports: Middle East and North Africa Overview
Algeria
Bahrain
Egypt
Iraq
Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza
Jordan
Kuwait
Lebanon
Morocco
Oman
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Tunisia
United Arab Emirates
Yemen

Chapter 5. Country Reports: South Asia Overview
Afghanistan
Bangladesh
India
Nepal
Pakistan
Sri Lanka

Chapter 5. Country Reports: Western Hemisphere Overview
CICTE
Triborder Area
Argentina
Brazil
Paraguay
Bolivia
Canada
Chile
Colombia
Ecuador
El Salvador
Guatemala
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Peru
Uruguay
Venezuela

Chapter 6. State Sponsors of Terrorism Overview
Cuba
Iran
Libya
North Korea
Sudan
Syria

Chapter 7. The Global Challenge of WMD Terrorism

Chapter 8. Foreign Terrorist Organizations
Abu Nidal Organization (ANO)
Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG)
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade
Ansar al-Sunna (AS)
Armed Islamic Group (GIA)
Asbat al-Ansar
Aum Shinrikyo (Aum)
Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA)
Communist Party of Philippines/New People’s Army (CPP/NPA)
Continuity Irish Republican Army (CIRA)
Gama’a al-Islamiyya (IG)
HAMAS
Harakat ul-Mujahidin (HUM)
Hizballah
Islamic Jihad Group (IJU)
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU)
Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM)
Jemaah Islamiya Organization (JI)
Al-Jihad (AJ)
Kahane Chai (Kach)
Kongra-Gel (PKK)
Lashkar e-Tayyiba (LT)
Lashkar i Jhangvi (LJ)
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 (PFLP)
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC)
Al-Qaida (AQ)
Al-Qaida in Iraq (AQI)
Real IRA (RIRA)
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
Revolutionary Nuclei (RN)
Revolutionary Organization 17 November
Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C)
Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC)
Shining Path (SL)
United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC)

Other Groups of Concern
Al-Badr Mujahedin (al-Badr)
Al-Ittihad al-Islami (AIAI)
Alex Boncayao Brigade (ABB)
Anti-Imperialist Territorial Nuclei (NTA)
Army for the Liberation of Rwanda (ALIR)
Cambodian Freedom Fighters (CFF)
Communist Party of India (Maoist)
Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)/United People’s Front
Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR)
East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM)
First of October Antifascist Resistance Group (GRAPO)
Harakat ul-Jihad-i-Islami (HUJI)
Harakat ul-Jihad-i-Islami/Bangladesh (HUJI-B)
Hizb-i Islami Gulbuddin (HIG)
Hizbul-Mujahedin (HM)
Irish National Liberation Army (INLA)
Irish Republican Army (IRA)
Islamic Army of Aden (IAA)
Islamic Great East Raiders–Front (IBDA-C)
Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade (IIPB)
Jamaatul-Mujahedin Bangladesh (JBM)
Jamiat ul-Mujahedin (JUM)
Japanese Red Army (JRA)
Kumpulan Mujahidin Malaysia (KMM)
Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA)
Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF)
New Red Brigades/Communist Combatant Party (BR/PCC)
People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD)
Rajah Solaiman Movement (RSM)
Red Hand Defenders (RHD)
Revolutionary Proletarian Initiative Nuclei (NIPR)
Revolutionary Struggle (RS)
Riyadus-Salikhin Reconnaissance and Sabotage Battalion of Chechen Martyrs (RSRSBCM)
Sipah-I-Sahaba/Pakistan (SSP)
Special Purpose Islamic Regiment (SPIR)
Tunisian Combatant Group (TCG)
Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA)
Turkish Hizballah
Ulster Defense Association/Ulster Freedom Fighters (UDA/UFF)
Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF)
United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA)

NCTC Statistical Annex

Supplement on Terrorism Deaths, Injuries, Kidnappings of Private U.S. Citizens

International Conventions and Protocols on Terrorism

Supplement: Report to Congress Required under Section 7120(b) of the 9/11 Commission Implementation Act of 2004



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