The FARL's leader, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, was captured in France in 1984.  After Abdallah's imprisonment the group ceased its activities.  Abdallah was sentenced to life in prison in 1987 for the Ray murder, and the group is assumed to no longer be active.  Abdallah has released communiqu&#233;s from prison in solidarity with prisoners from other terrorist groups, such as Action Directe and First of October Antifascist Resistance Group (GRAPO).

Popular Revolutionary Resistance Organization -- Suspected Alias/Ally

The Lebanese Liberation Front appears to have combined a variety of grievances  --  against Syria, Israel and the United States, although Canada was the site of their only attack outside of Lebanon.  As their two most prominent attacks were directed against Syrian troops, the "liberation" in their name is presumed to be the liberation of Lebanon from Syrian occupation.  Syria has had troops stationed in Lebanon since 1975, when it intervened in the Lebanese Civil War to prevent the establishment of either a Christian or Shi'a state.  Israel became involved in the Lebanese Civil War in 1982. The Lebanese Liberation Front's motivation to attack a Canadian target and the attack's significance to the group's overall objectives remains unclear.

The Lebanese Liberation Front has not carried out an attack since 1989, and Syrian troops withdrew from Lebanon in May 2005. The group is therefore presumed to be inactive.

Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) -- Other Affiliation

The Lebanese National Resistance Front (LNRF) was the military wing of the pro-Moscow Lebanese Communist Party. The LNRF was founded on September 16, 1982 (the same day the Israeli army broke into West Beirut) when the secretary general of the central committee of the Lebanese Communist party George Hawi and the secretary general of the Communist labor organization met and issued a call to the Lebanese people which called for the carrying of weapons and to unify the ranks in the "Lebanese national resistance front" against Israel. <P><br />The LNRF carried out numerous attacks against the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Israeli related targets in Beirut, Mount Lebanon and the South during the early 1980s. Starting in 1984, however, fissures between different factions of the group emerged, and developed to the point where different LNRF parties would attack each other.  Coupled with the fall of the Soviet Union, and its parent Lebanese Communist Party, ensured that the LNRF would virtually disappear by the early 1990s. <P><br />The LNRF did not have the strength of other larger militant groups in Lebanon, but by all accounts, it was a highly effective outfit. Most observers believe that the Front was a pro-Syrian organization whose membership was primarily Lebanese. However, there have been challenges to that conventional wisdom. The PLO has claimed that it was actually behind the Lebanese National Resistance Front. According to Palestinian sources, attacks claimed by the LNRF were actually carried out by isolated PLO guerrilla cells and some radical Lebanese leftists who supported them.