In the 1997, Gazteriak membership was estimated at 1,000 people.  However, all of these members were not actively involved in terrorism.  In 2000, the organization essentially ceased to exist.  In this year, Gazteriak and its Spanish counterpart, Jarrai, merged to create the organization Haika.  Shortly thereafter, Spanish authorities declared the newly formed Haika illegal.

In 1989, the Generation of Arab Fury took credit for a pair of bombings during the Hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, calling the attacks a warning to the Saudi royal family for its "policy of treason."  Saudi Arabia executed 16 Kuwaiti pilgrims and claimed that the attacks were orchestrated by Iran.  According to a video-taped confession of one of the participants, the bombers had collected the explosives from the Iranian Embassy in Kuwait.<br /><p>The attack occurred against the backdrop of tension between Saudi Arabia and Iran.  In particular, Iranian pilgrims on the Hajj had been staging demonstrations against the United States and the Saudi royal family throughout the 1980s.  In 1987 the demonstration escalated into a large-scale clash in which 402 people, mostly Iranian pilgrims, were killed.  In April 1988, Saudi Arabia broke diplomatic relations with Iran and Iran boycotted the Hajj rather than accept Saudi limits on the number of Iranian pilgrims permitted to participate.</p>

On September 21, 1989, the Saudi government executed 16 Kuwaitis and imprisoned four other Kuwaitis for their involvement in the bombings.  Iranian officials and groups believed to be linked to Hezbollah promised revenge attacks.  In late 1989 there were several attacks linked to Hezbollah against Saudi diplomatic targets that were claimed in revenge for the September executions.

Global Intifada is a Swedish group that "through direct action fight[s] against capitalism, imperialism, and the current world order."  Through their choice of targets, which include both Polish and Danish installations in Sweden, it is clear that Global Intifada opposes the war in Iraq.  Both Poland and Denmark were members of the US-led coalition that defeated Saddam Hussein and troops from both nations continue to serve there. <br /><p><br />Despite the connotation of their name, it is believed that the group operates strictly on political and economic, not religious themes.  Group members have, however, claimed to be inspired by the Palestinian intifada that began in 2000.  <br />