The Armee Revolutionnaire Bretonne (ARB), or Breton Liberation Army, was created in 1971 as the armed wing of the Front de Liberation Breton (FLB), aka Breton Liberation Front.  FLB had been established in 1963 to try and achieve the liberation of Brittany from France.  The pro-independence, anticapitalist group Emgann ("Combat"), created in 1982, is considered the official front for the ARB.  The group began its terrorist activities with a bombing in Roc-Tredudon in 1974, and an attack on the Chateau of Versailles in June of 1978.  The group is believed to have been responsible for more than 200 attacks over the next 30 years.  Until 2000, however, the group had successfully avoided human casualties (with the exception of two of its own members who were killed trying to defuse bombs they were afraid might injure someone), although they inflicted a significant amount of damage to property.  In April of 2000, a McDonald's waitress died when a bomb blew up in her face as she opened a serving hatch at the restaurant in Quevert.  <P><br />The group's strategy seems to have changed in the late 1990s, when it developed links with the Basque separatist movement ETA and helped the group to steal eight tons of dynamite from a quarry in Brittany.  In July of 1998, the group gave an exclusive interview to a Basque paper "Gara," in which it claimed responsibility for a recent wave of attacks.  The ARB said it would no longer limit itself to just symbolic actions, that [the government in] Paris never budged unless it believed it was under attack, and that the group would therefore pursue that goal.   <P><br />The bombing of the McDonald's in Quevert coincided with the discovery of an unexploded bomb at a post office in Rennes. Both bombs contained explosives from the eight-ton cache that was stolen by Breton and Basque nationalists in 1999. The McDonald's attack was the last of almost 20 over an 18-month period between late 1998 and April of 2000.  Targets included administrative offices, police precincts and utility installations, as well as the home towns of then-Prime Minister Lionel Jospin and Interior Minister Jean-Pierre Chevenement. The attack on the McDonald's is significant in that it could mark a turn toward anti-American and antiglobalization goals.  Four men were arrested, including Gael Roblin, 31, the spokesman of the main Breton autonomy movement, Emgann ("Combat"), which the prosecutors claim provided "theoretical justification" for a campaign of bombings, and Christian Georgeault, 48, the suspected ARB ringleader and former Emgann general secretary. All of the suspects deny ARB membership and responsibility for the attack.