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UK acts against 15 terror groups

CRACKING DOWN The UK home secretary banned 15 organizations with suspected links to al-Qaeda as part of sweeping anti-terror measures after the London bombings

THE GUARDIAN , LONDON

Other groups being banned are: the Uzbeck-based Islamic Jihad Union; Ansar al-Sunna in central Iraq; the Afghani Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin; Harakat-ul-Mujahideen/Alami and its splinter group, Jundallah, which operate in Pakistan Kashmir; Sipah-e Sahaba Pakistan and its splinter group, Lashkar-e Jhangvi; Khuddam ul-Islam and its splinter group, Jamaat ul-Furquan; Harakat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami. All these groups also operate in Pakistani Kashmir. The 15th group is Harakat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami-Bangladesh.

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