In November 2005, al-Bara bin Malek Brigades, operating under Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's terrorist network, were responsible for triple hotel bombings in Amman, Jordan.  In a claim of responsibility a spokesman for al-Qaeda Organization in the Land of the Two Rivers said of the attacks: "At this time of alienation, a group of heroes from al-Bara Bin Malek Brigade who love martyrdom and yearn for heaven... (selected the targets) and the time of execution was set as accurately as God willed." <br /><br />The Jordan bombing was unique in that it marked the movement of the Iraqi terrorist insurgency beyond the borders of Iraq.  It remains to be seen whether groups such as al-Bara bin Malek Brigades will continue this trend, and perpetrate further attacks abroad.  In any case, the group can be considered extremely active in Iraq, with the strong possibility that they will carry out suicide missions in other countries as well.  <br />

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Al-Barq (the Lightning) is a militant Kashmiri separatist group that conducts operations in Pakistan-administered Kashmir. The group, while not one of the primary militant groups in the region, has played a consistent role in separatist activity in Kashmir for more than 25 years. For much of its history, al-Barq was considered the armed wing of the prominent separatist Jammu and Kashmir People's Conference party. By 2000, however, al-Barq had disassociated itself with the People's Conference, choosing instead to align itself with the Muttahida Jihad Council, an alliance of Kashmiri jihadi organizations. <p><br />  Relative to a number of other Kashmiri separatist groups, al-Barq was originally considered moderate. This moderation stemmed from the group's affiliation with the People's Conference. An al-Barq representative actually participated in talks between Kashmiri militants and the Indian government in 1996, but the talks yielded no results. <p><br />  The group has engaged in countless skirmishes with Indian police and garnered international media attention by claiming responsibility for the assassination of the Indian Jammu and Kashmir Law Minister in 2002. The minister was killed, along with six members of his entourage, when a land mine exploded and shots were fired at his motorcade. Three separate groups took credit for the attack; al-Barq claimed to have filmed the assassination but never released the tape. <p><br />