Although the BCF has signed a cease-fire with the Indian government, a renewal of ethnic clashes between Santhals and Bodos in Assam could quickly lead to a re-emergence of the BCF as a terrorist outfit.

Revolutionary People's Struggle -- Supported Cause

The Black and Red Brigades have claimed only one attack in their brief history, destroying a car parked next to a municipal building in Athens, Greece in April 2004.  The group was protesting the trial of suspected ELA (a.k.a. Revolutionary People's Struggle) member Yiannis Serifis, which it dubbed "a parody trial."  The group's goal was to draw attention to Serifis' plight and allegedly to secure a favorable verdict. The attack caused no injuries or fatalities. <P><br />	Yianni Serifis, a Greek labor activist with ties to extremist organizations, is allegedly a co-founder of the Revolutionary Organization of November 17 (N17) and is also suspected of membership in the ELA, both Greek leftist groups active in the 1970s and 80s.  N17 and the ELA followed Marxist-Leninist philosophies and were virulently anti-American and anti-establishment.  Serifis had been charged with complicity in an attack against a riot police bus that killed police officer Apostolos Vellios.  Citing a lack of evidence, the public prosecutor urged the Criminal Appeals tribunal to find Serifis innocent, which it subsequently did in June 2005.  <br />	<br />

Since the court's declaration of Serifis' innocence, further attacks by the Black and Red Brigades seem improbable.  It is common for leftist terror groups in Greece to plot and execute one attack for a single cause and then dissolve as members join other ad hoc groups or attack under a different name.   No future activity is expected by the Black and Red Brigades.

Black Brigades of Lebanon (BBL), Christian Anti-Moslem Organization (CAO, CAMO), Lebanese Black Brigades (LBB)

Active in the mid-1980s, the Black Brigade was a small anti-Libyan terrorist cell that was dedicated to finding Lebanese Shia Imam Moussa Sadr, the founder of the terrorist organization Amal, who vanished after visiting Libya in 1978. It was suspected that Libyan dictator Muammar Qadhafi, with whom Sadr had personal and religious differences, had Sadr killed. Qadhafi insisted that after Sadr's trip, the imam boarded a plane to Rome, though Italian officials have found no evidence to support this claim.<br /><p><br />Due to the Black Brigade's small size, very limited number of attacks, and interests parallel to those of Amal, it can be inferred that some, if not all, Black Brigade members were also members of Amal. In the five years immediately following the imam's disappearance, a total of seven planes either belonging to Libyan Airlines, flying to Libya, or flying out of Libya were hijacked by Amal. These represented ultimately unsuccessful attempts to forcefully coerce Qadhafi to cooperate in the search for Sadr. Several Black Brigade gunmen attempted to secure the release of two Amal terrorists imprisoned in Cyprus for one of these hijackings by hijacking a Cyprus Airways plane en route to Libya. Black Brigade members were also responsible for other anti-Libyan actions, such as the attempted bombing of the Libyan Embassy in Beirut in 1983.<br />