At least since 2000, Italian security officials have noted that International Solidarity was attempting to build alliances with other domestic and international terrorist groups.  While these alliances predictably include the other anarchist terrorists within Italy, it also includes Marxist-Leninist groups, such as the New Red Brigades.  These affiliations suggest a lack of rigid principles within both sets of groups.  Furthermore, this lack of clear ideological commitment demonstrates that the primary goal of both the Italian anarchists and Marxists is nothing more than murder and destruction.<br /><p><br />Recent analysis suggests that International Solidarity is now acting as a faction of the Informal Anarchist Federation, a conglomeration of Italian anarchist terrorist groups.

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) -- Founding Group

Internet Black Tigers is most likely funded by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

The Internet Black Tigers (IBT) can be characterized as a specialized faction of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a violent nationalist-separatist group in Sri Lanka dedicated to the creation of an independent ethnic Tamil state.  <P><br /><br />While the LTTE has been responsible for dozens of terrorist attacks and hundreds of casualties in over 25 years of violence, the Internet Black Tigers have claimed responsibility for only one attack, which caused no injuries.  Despite this relative lack of activity, the IBT are infamous for being the first known organization to carry out an act of cyber-terror against a nation.    <P><br /><br />In August 1997, IBT attacked the email systems of several Sri Lankan embassies throughout the world. By flooding these accounts with over 800 emails a day, the IBT was able to disable embassy networks for nearly two weeks.  The emails sent by IBT identified the group as an "elite department" of the LTTE, specializing in "suicide e-mail bombings."  The group said the attack was an effort to counter Sri Lankan government propaganda.  <P><br /><br />Although this incident was more of an annoyance then anything else, for many terrorism experts the attack represents a highly significant development in the future of cyber-terrorism and terrorist methods.  <br />