APPENDIX BPROFILES OF SIGNIFICANT ISLAMIST EXTREMISTS AND INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST GROUPS AND STATE SPONSORS
The following profiles are taken from U.S. Department of State reports on terrorist organizations and state sponsors, augmented by other sources. The Department of State officially designates groups as foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs) in a process that involves various federal agencies and the U.S. Congress (and even provides for input by the groups themselves). In addition, the department designates a country a “state sponsor” of terrorism if its government has provided support for repeated acts of international terrorism. As of 2011, Cuba, Iran, Sudan, and Syria were so designated. While these designations and supporting information ...
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