The Arab Fedayeen Cells have not claimed responsibility for an act of terrorism since 1986. The Abu Nidal Organization, however, is still considered a viable terrorist threat by most observers. It has not specifically targeted Western interests since the late 1980's, but remains active in the Middle East and has targeted Palestinian and Jordanian diplomats in Lebanon. Speculation remains as to whether the ANO can survive the death of Abu Nidal, who was reported to have committed suicide in Iraq in 2002.<br />

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The Arab Liberation Front (ALF) is a secular, leftist, Palestinian nationalist terror group.  The group was founded in April 1969 by Iraqi Ba'athist party members as an alliance among Iraq, Fatah (of the Palestinian Liberation Organization), Egypt, and Syria.  Like most Palestinian terror groups, ALF's goal is to destroy Israel and establish an Arab state in its place.  The organization was founded as a pan-Arab counterweight to the PLO, designed to reverse the "Palestinianization" of the Arab-Israeli conflict.  Due to Iraq's primary role in establishing the group, the ALF functioned as a proxy for the Iraqi regime, actively seeking to extend Iraqi influence within the Palestinian Territories and Lebanon.  Despite its pan-Arab roots, the organization joined the PLO in July 1969.  In the 1970s, the ALF played an important role in the Rejection Front, a loose affiliation of groups that vocally opposed the PLO's peace efforts.

The ALF has remained a small, marginalized group within the Palestinian conflict, lacking both the secular support base of al-Fatah and the Islamist support base of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.  While ALF has continued to conduct small attacks against Israeli targets, the group has shifted away from conducting its own operations to financing Palestinian suicide bombers.  With open financial and political assistance from Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime, the ALF disbursed millions of dollars to the families of Palestinian "martyrs" who attacked Israeli targets.  With the removal of the Iraqi Ba'athist regime, it remains unclear what role the ALF will play in the broader Palestinian conflict.