The Anti-Mainstream Self Determination Faction is currently inactive and may have ceased to exist altogether.  The member who called a Thessaloniki newspaper to claim responsibility for the bombing said that it was a warning strike, which implies that the group was planning a larger attack, but no such attack was ever made.  The extremely low-tech weapon used by the group (gas bottles and rags soaked in flammable liquid) suggests that they were small in size and probably not cooperating closely with any of the larger Greek terrorist organizations.  The Anti-Mainstream Self Determination Faction is somewhat unusual in that it attacks in Thessaloniki rather than Athens.  Relatively few groups have claimed responsibility for attacks in Thessaloniki.  These groups include the Movement Against State Arbitrariness, the Revolutionary People's Struggle (ELA), Rigas Ferreos, Revolutionary Struggle, and the Anti-Authority Erotic Cells.  Greek police consider it possible that these groups may share some of the same members since they have attacked the same city.

A group calling itself "Anti-Olympic Flame" claimed responsibility for two arson attacks in Thessaloniki, Greece in spring 2004.  Their first attack targeted a private security van, and in their claim of responsibility the group wrote, "We are asking young people to welcome the terrorism of the Olympic Games with a relay race of destruction and arsons against symbols of the state, against the commercial society and every authority."  Their second arson attack targeted the vehicle of Deputy Consul of Cyprus, Panagiotis Georgiades.  In this claim the group wrote, "In Greece and Cyprus and Turkey the enemies are to be found in banks and ministries. Let us crush the patriotic garbage on both sides of the Aegean." <P><br /><br />Although little to nothing is known about Anti-Olympic Flame, their own statements show a proclivity towards anarchism and anti-capitalism.  Their name alone expresses a disdain for Greece's hosting of the 2004 Olympics, which the group likely viewed as a celebration of wealth and commercialism.  <br />