Several months after they were kidnapped, the three remaining Italian hostages were freed in a raid conducted by coalition forces. The Green Brigade of the Prophet has not claimed further attacks, and, given the resilience of the Sunni insurgency in Iraq, it is likely that either the group itself remains active under a different name or that its members have simply joined other extremist groups operating in Iraq.

The Green Cells organization was a small Shia Muslim extremist group based in Lebanon. The group has only been responsible for one attack in its history, the August 1987 arson of the Disarmament Pavilion of the Palais Wilson, formerly the meeting place of the League of Nations and currently the home of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The attack caused massive structural damage but did not result in any casualties. <br /><p><br />Before this attack, individuals representing the Green Cells had been calling newspaper offices and a local radio station in Lebanon, warning the Swiss not to turn 21-year-old alleged Hezbollah terrorist Hussein Mohammed Hariri over to France, which had just severed diplomatic relations with Iran on July 17th, 1987. Hariri was responsible for the July 24th hijacking of an Air Afrique jet en route to Paris. The Green Cell callers promised attacks on Swiss targets in the Middle East if Hariri was extradited.<br />

Hariri was never handed over to France, and he served 17 years of a life sentence in Switzerland. After attempting to escape twice, Hariri was deported to Lebanon. The Green Cells only claimed one attack in their history and their demands were specific. It is unlikely that they continue to operate as a terrorist group.

Group Bakunin Gdansk Paris Guatemala Salvador

Group Bakounine Gdansk Paris Guatemala Salvador

The Group Bakunin Gdansk Paris Guatemala Salvador (GBGPSG) operated during the early 1980s in France. The GBGPSG was not a distinct group, but a cover for the terrorist entity Action Directe International (ADi). ADi, a branch of Action Directe, was a French leftist terrorist organization whose ideology progressed from revolutionary Communism in the French "gauchiste" tradition to a more "Euro-terrorist" international philosophy. <P><br />ADi's GPGPSG phase represented the beginning of this shift in ideology. With the election of a Socialist government in Paris, much of the basis for the group's original ideology was lost and they felt themselves continually marginalized. Thus, the group had to turn toward a new ideology, shared by "Euro-terrorist" allies across Western Europe, which focused on combating the Americanization of Europe, as well as Israeli and South African interests. Anarchist elements within the group also opposed Soviet bureaucracy and hegemony in Eastern Europe.