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(8 Oct 1999) English/Nat The United States has put Osama Bin Laden and the Muslim extremist Taliban government of Afghanistan on to its list of Foreign Terrorist Organisations. The Irish Republican Army and its dissident splinter groups, including the "Real IRA" have been taken off the list. The State Department also dropped Palestinian, Chilean and Cambodian groups because they haven't committed any terrorist acts in the past two years. U-S Ambassador Michael Sheehan explained a recent Clinton Administration efforts to isolate Afghanistan's radical Islamic Taliban government through the United Nations. SOUNDBITE: (English) "First this week in the United Nations Security Council, we introduced a resolution that would impose sanctions on the Taliban. The last time I was on this podium was to talk about the President's executive order on the Taliban. And many people asked me around here what was the impact it would be? Well one of the things we've done is work hard to multilateralize those sanctions, and we are moving forward on that right now. " SUPER CAPTION: State Department Coordinator on Counter Terrorism, U.S. Ambassador Michael Sheehan Ambassador Sheehan explained that this kind of diplomatic effort will de-politicise and criminalise the actions and financial dealings of designated Foreign Terrorist Organisations on its list. This, he said would hamper a group's ability to operate internationally or to receive foreign funding. SOUNDBITE: (English) "This UN Action, similar to our executive order,would shut down the airlines, Ariana airlines of the Taliban, and freeze their assets worldwide. And as I said effectively multilateralizing our sanctions. In solidarity with..Since our executive order by the way, in solidarity with the U.S. position, several countries have already taken action and limited financial transactions of the Taliban and air traffic with Afghanistan." SUPER CAPTION: State Department Coordinator on Counter Terrorism, US. Ambassador Michael Sheehan However, Ambassador Sheehan explained that not all organisations that might widely regarded as terrorist would be designated as such on the State Department's list. SOUNDBITE: (English) "In 1997, when we initiated this process, both the Irish and the British governments affirmed to us that the IRA was continuing to adhere to the ceasefire it declared in August of 1997, and that this ceasefire is genuine in both word and deed. We therefore decided not to designate the IRA as a foreign terrorist organization at that time. However we continue to keep the IRA under review, and we have since then as well. We continue to review the activities also of some of the dissident Republican, some of the dissident elements, some of whom may be former IRA members to determine if there is sufficient evidence to designate one of these splinter groups as a foreign terrorist organization under U.S. law." SUPER CAPTION: State Department Coordinator on Counter Terrorism, Ambassador Michael Sheehan Al-Qaida, which the State Department says is responsible for the 1998 bombings of U-S embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people has been put on the list. By law, all the 28 organisations now on the State Department list suffer sanctions that prevent any person in the United States from contributing to them. It also blocks their members from entering the United States and requires all U-S financial institutions to freeze their funds. To make the list, the organisations must engage in terrorist activity that threatens national security or the security of any American, at home or abroad. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...