The U.S. State Department announced last month that it would remove five organizations from its list of international terrorist organizations. "A review determined that the five are no longer engaged in terrorism or terrorist activity and do not retain
'The Immigration and Nationality Law requires that the secretary of state must revoke a designation' if the secretary finds this to be the case, a U.S. official says
The United States has removed five extremist groups, all believed to be defunct, from its list of foreign terrorist organizations. In notices published in the Federal Register on Friday, the State Department said it had removed the groups after a mandatory five-year review of their designations. Al-Qaida, which was also…