鲍威尔说，该组织成立于1969年，目的是通过游击战推翻菲律宾政府。该组织强烈反对美国在菲律宾驻军，并杀害了菲律宾和美国公民。
声明说，该组织被确定为恐怖主义组织后，向该组织提供物质支持即属非法行为，美国各金融机构必须查封该组织的资产，该组织成员如不是美国公民则不得进入美国。被确定的外国恐怖主义组织现已达到34个。
美国国务院确定的外国恐怖主义组织名单：
Fact Sheet
Office of Counterterrorism
Washington, DC
August 9, 2002
Foreign Terrorist Organizations
Abu Nidal Organization (ANO)
Abu Sayyaf Group
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades
Armed Islamic Group
'Asbat al-Ansar
Aum Shinrikyo
Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA)
Gama抋 al-Islamiyya (Islamic Group)
Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement)
Harakat ul-Mujahidin (HUM)
Hizballah (Party of God)
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU)
Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM) (Army of Mohammed)
Al-Jihad (Egyptian Islamic Jihad)
Kahane Chai (Kach)
Kurdistan Workers?Party (PKK)
Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LT) (Army of the Righteous)
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK)
National Liberation Army (ELN)
Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)
Palestine Liberation Front (PLF)
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
PFLP-General Command (PFLP-GC)
Al-Qaida
Real IRA
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
Revolutionary Nuclei (formerly ELA)
Revolutionary Organization 17 November
Revolutionary People抯 Liberation Army/Front (DHKP/C)
Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC)
Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso, SL)
United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC)
Communist Party of the Philippines/New People's Army (CPP/NPA)
http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/fs/2002/12535.htm
《美国参考》David A. Denny 撰稿
