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President Joe Biden’s administration is set to remove five extremist groups from its foreign terrorist blacklist.
Each of the groups is now considered defunct, and Secretary of State Tony Blinken wrote to Congress on Friday advocating for their removal, the Associated Press reported Sunday.
The groups include the Basque separatist group ETA, the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo, the radical Jewish group Kahane Kach and two Islamic groups that have been active in Israel, the Palestinian territories and Egypt, according to the AP.
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“Based on a review of the Administrative Record assembled in this matter and in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretary of the Treasury, I determine that the circumstances that were the basis for the designation … have changed in such a manner to warrant revocation of the designation,” Blinken wrote of the…
