Citing Mao Tse Tung as a model, the PBCP aims to overthrow the parliamentary system in Bangladesh and replace it with communism. The group has been very active since 2003, especially in the western part of the country. Terrorist activity, mostly targeted assassinations, has been increasing, and the PBCP are able to move freely and extort money and information from the local population. The PBCP has also been involved in a number of shootouts with police units. Several members, including key leadership, have been killed or arrested in the past year by police.  <P><br /><br />There are reportedly two PBCP groups currently operating. The status of their relationship is unknown. The two groups are referred to as the Janajuddho and Red Flag factions of PBCP. Their goals and tactics are identical. The division seems to represent a leadership dispute between Abdur Rashid Malitha and Moffakar Chowdhury in 2002. <P>

Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) -- Ally

illegitimate Islamic charities in Southeast Asia and the Middle East, shares funding with allies

In October 2005, Ahmed Santos was captured by Filipino security forces. Pio de Vera, his deputy, took his place as the leader of RSM, only to be captured two months later. Though it is currently unclear who leads RSM, the organization is young and growing quickly. Its powerful, established allies and unique member base nearly guarantees that the terrorism problem in Southeast Asia will get worse before it gets better. RSM is active and attacks perpetrated by the group are likely to continue.

Raul Sendic International Brigade is the name of a group that claimed responsibility for the 1974 assassination in France of Colonel Ramon Trabal, military attach&#233; and former head of Uruguayan military intelligence.  <P><br /><br />The group takes its name from Raul Sendic Antonaccio, a prominent Uruguayan leftist and founder of the Tupamaros, a guerilla movement named after a famous South American revolutionary.  In the group's claim of responsibility for the murder of Trabal, an anonymous caller to Agence France-Presse identified himself as a member of the group and said the attack was in response to Trabal's "bestiality in repression of combatants and revolutionaries like Raul Sendic and his companions of Tupamaro national liberation movement." <P><br /><br />While the group's name and stated motive for the attack led many to believe that the attackers were simply members or allies of the Tupamaros, certain facts surrounding the killing have cast doubt on this assumption.  While Trabal was a member of the Uruguayan military establishment who ran the country and was responsible for repressing the Tupamaros, the Colonel was seen as progressive, nationalist, and publicly opposed to torture.  In fact, Trabal was in France as a virtual exile, removed from Uruguay as a possible enemy and conspirator against the right-wing dictatorship.  This led some people, including French authorities, to believe that the hit was ordered by Uruguayan military rivals.  To this day it is unclear who the perpetrators actually were, and strong cases can be made for both theories. <br />