Considering the group's failure to follow up a threat of an imminent increase in its activities following the Shaklee bombings, it is safe to say that the Revolutionary Cells Animal Liberation Brigade lacks the means to continue its terrorist activity.  The prime suspect in the Emeryville bombings, Daniel Andreas San Diego, has been identified and is currently hiding from law enforcement officials.  It is highly likely that this is a significant blow to the Revolutionary Cells Animal Liberation Brigade's ability to conduct further attacks.

The Revolutionary Commandos of Solidarity carried out a total of two attacks over a one-day period, April 11th 1977. Both attacks were directed against American interests in San Jose Costa Rica. From its name, tactic and choice of targets, it can be assumed that this group's ideology was similar in nature to that of Latin America's other left-wing insurgent groups, who resented American "neocolonialism" and support for right-wing regimes. <P><br />Their expression of "solidarity" was most likely a reference to Costa Rica-born Carlos Aguero Echeverria, a leader of the Sandanista rebel movement in Nicaragua who had recently been killed. <br />

Costa Rica never experienced a serious insurgency and the Revolutionary Commandos of Solidarity have not been heard from since 1977.

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) -- Ally

Eelam Revolutionary Organization of Students

The Revolutionary Eelam Organization (EROS) was the first of many violent groups in Sri Lanka to begin fighting for the creation of an independent state called Tamil Eelam.  The Tamils, a minority group that constitutes 13% of the Sri Lankan population, first attempted to overcome perceived racial discrimination through political means.  EROS represented a significant shift in the Tamil strategy and was the precursor of a large militant movement that is still presenting a challenge to the Sri Lankan government.<br /><p><br />EROS was formed in 1975 by Eliyathamby Ratnasabapathy and Shankar Rajee, both of whom were living in Great Britain at the time.  Initially a think-tank concerned with Tamil issues, its leadership established ties with the Palestinian Liberation Organization and formed militant training camps in Sri Lanka.  These camps eventually militarized and trained most of the rebels who formed other Tamil movements in the 1980s.  Although the most radically nationalist of all the Tamil groups, EROS was the least militarily active of all such groups.  However, the group was responsible for a string of bombings in Sri Lanka in the mid-1980s as well as for the kidnapping of British journalist Penelope Willis.  <br /><p><br />EROS gradually lost its influence as Tamil independence movements emerged as offshoots of EROS.  These groups, the largest of which is the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), took the majority of EROS members with them.  Eventually, a minority group within EROS led by Shankar Rajee formed the EROS political party which precipitated the demise of the original EROS.<br />