Whether or not the LNRF was an independent group or simply a front for the Palestinian Liberation Organization, the group is decidedly inactive.  <br />

The Lebanese Revolutionary Socialist Organization, also know as the Shibbu Gang, operated briefly in the 1970s in Lebanon.  Like many groups in Lebanon at the time, the Shibbu Gang had a leftist orientation, opposing Israel, the United States and other Western nations.

The majority of the Shibbu Gang's members were arrested and sentenced on March 9th, 1974 for the murder of U.S. citizen John Crawford Maxwell, who was executed in the group's raid on a Beirut branch of the Bank of America.  Although the group did claim one attack after this arrest, they are presumed to be inactive at this point.

Almost nothing is known about Leftist Nucleus, and the scant details available about their only attack provide no basis for speculation.  Leftist Nucleus's first and last attack was against a Greek television station.  They did not give an explanation for their attack when they claimed responsibility.  It is not known why Leftist Nucleus chose a television station as their target.  Attacks against television stations by Greek terrorist groups are rare but not unheard of.  (The Movement Against State Arbitrariness and the Anti-Power Struggle have both claimed responsibility for attacks against television stations.)

Leftist Nucleus has not claimed responsibility for another attack since 1998 and is presumed inactive.

The Liberation Army Fifth Battalion was the name of a group that claimed responsibility for the 1993 bombing attack on the World Trade Center in New York City.  A van loaded with over 500 pounds of explosives was parked in the underground parking structure of one of the towers.  Upon detonation, the blast ruptured a hole in floors up to the third story and caused significant structural damage.  The goal of the attack was to weaken the foundation of the tower, causing it to collapse on the second tower.  Even though this did not occur, six people were killed and over one thousand were injured.  <P>The attack was the first and only mention of the Liberation Army Fifth Battalion.  A letter released to the New York Times newspaper days after the attack stated that the reasons for the bombing were to force the U.S. to stop support for Israel and end "interference" in Middle East affairs.    <P><br /><br />Investigations into the attack led to the arrests of ten suspected Islamist militants, including key planners of the attack: Mohammed Salameh, Mahmud Abouhalima, and Ramzi Ahmed Yousef.  All three men were convicted between 1994 and 1998 and received the maximum sentence of 240 years in prison.   <br /><P>Information that emerged following the attack indicates that the Liberation Army Fifth Battalion was merely a name chosen by Ramzi Yousef and did not represent an authentic organization.  While it is uncertain whether the terrorists were actually members of larger organizations, it is clear that they had linkages to other groups.  Yousef's uncle, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, a high-ranking al-Qaeda member who planned many attacks, including the September 11th, 2001 hijackings, reportedly help finance Yousef in the 1993 bombing.  Al-Gama'a al Islamiyya (GAI) leader Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman was a convicted co-conspirator in the attack as well as a long-time associate of Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) and al-Qaeda.  <br />