In any event, the Arab Commando Cells was a small, government-sponsored terrorist cell that was formed for one expressed purpose. The group is decidedly inactive.

The Arab Communist Organization (ACO) operated briefly in the mid 1970s in Lebanon and Syria. Although communist by name, the group's choice of targets did not show a clearly focused ideology. The ACO targeted American civilian and economic interests, at times ACO specifically claimed that it was protesting Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's upcoming Middle Eastern Tour. The ACO also targeted British interests in the name of extortion, attempting to force them to distribute large amounts of food to poor Lebanese families.

The ACO's last known attack was in 1977, yet the group has recently been in the news due to international calls from Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International that Syria should release certain ACO members from prison.  Three members of the terrorist group, 'Imad Shiha, Haytham Na'al and Faris Murad, were arrested and imprisoned in July 1975 after the group's series of bombings in Damascus.  All three were sentenced to life in prison. While in prison, the three terrorist members suffered from various chronic illnesses, as well as injury from torture devices used by the Syrian authorities. Haytham Na'al was released in August 2002, yet the others remain in custody.

Little is known about the Arab Communist Revolutionary Party.  Although both of their actions were against British financial interests in Jordan, they did not make any explicitly anti-British or anti-Jordanian statements.

The Arab Communist Revolutionary Party is not an active political organization in Jordan and has not claimed a terrorist attack since 1995.  It is presumed to be inactive.

Abu Nidal Organization (ANO) -- Suspected Alias/Ally

The Arab Fedayeen Cells claimed responsibility for three bombing attacks in Lebanon in 1986, all directed at Western-owned banks, both British and American. The group is also suspected in the abduction of a British journalist and murder of three other Britons in April 1986, apparently in response to the UK's role in the American attacks on Libya. <P><br />Both Canada and the United Nations consider the Arab Fedayeen Cells to be an alias of the Abu Nidal Organization (ANO). The ANO was active in the Middle East at this time, and has a history of adopting aliases to claim certain tacks, such as those carried out by the Revolutionary Union of Socialist Muslims in 1984 and 1985. Abu Nidal received support from Ghadaffi's regime in Libya, further support for evidence of a link between the ANO and the timing of the attacks by the Arab Fedayeen Cells following American air strikes against Libya. The United States, however, has not officially listed the Arab Fedayeen Cells as an alias of the ANO, which it retains on its list of Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations.