The Free Vietnam Revolutionary Group has demonstrated limited operational strength.  Three of the group's members were arrested and charged with unlawful manufacture or possession of explosives.  The group's membership beyond these three individuals is not known.

In November 1999, a group calling itself "Freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal" claimed responsibility for a series of small bombings against US targets in Zurich, Switzerland.  The buildings targeted were an American Airlines building, a Chase Manhattan Bank, and an American cultural center.  The explosives were actually large fireworks attached to windows and doors; the bombs inflicted minimal structural damage and caused no casualties. <P><br /><br />These attacks were in apparent protest over the imprisonment of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a former American radio DJ who was convicted of murdering a police officer in 1981 and sentenced to death.  Doubts over the fairness of Abu-Jamal's trial have led to a large protest movement in both the United States and Europe, calling for a re-trial.  Abu-Jamal supporters in the United States condemned the bombing, and Freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal has not been responsible for further violence. <P><br /><br /> <br />

Freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal is inactive.

The Freemen was a Washington-based militant group that was most active in the mid-1990s.  Little is known of their founding principles, but the Freemen most likely shared similar views of their militia contemporaries concerning the decimation of the federal government and stockpiling weapons.  Despite the name likeness, there does not appear to be any linkages with the Montana Freemen, notoriously known for an 81 day stand-off with the FBI in 1996.      <br /><P><br />On July 27, 1996, four members of the Freemen were arrested by federal law enforcement officers for conspiracy and possession of weapons and explosives.  John Lloyd Kirk and his wife Judy Kirk, Tracy Brown, and William Smith allegedly met with members of the Washington State Militia to discuss the manufacturing of pipe bombs as well as possible bombing targets.    The charges for Judy Kirk and Tracy Brown were dropped, but John Lloyd Kirk was found guilty of possession of an unregistered destructive device and was sentenced to forty six months in a federal prison followed by three years supervised release.  <br /><br />     <br />