Saif-ul-Muslimeen has not claimed an attack since 2003 although it is not assumed that they are no longer active.  Many areas of Afghanistan remain restive and out of the control of either coalition or Afghan troops, with the Taliban and al-Qaeda remaining potent forces across the country.

Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group -- Ally

Though much of Salafia Jihadia's top leadership was captured soon after the Casablanca attacks, the group still poses a threat to regional stability due to its flattened organizational structure and substantial base of contacts with other fundamentalist groups in the region.

Popular Resistance Committees -- Founding Group

The Salah al-Din Batallions/Brigades are the armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC). Unlike some terrorist organizations, such as Hamas and Hezbollah, however, the PRC does not maintain both an armed organization and a separate network of social and political services. Therefore, there is not a significant difference between the Salah al-Din Brigades and the PRC as a whole.

The PRC continue to be an active terrorist force in the Occupied Territories, where their main method of attack has been firing rockets from the Gaza Strip into towns in southern Israel and Jewish settlements inside Gaza.  <br /><p><br />The group has also been implicated in the <a href=" /prototype/incident.asp?id=17292">October 15th, 2003 attack</a> that killed a number of U.S. diplomatic security personnel in the Gaza Strip.  The attack, a roadside bomb that destroyed the van the men were traveling in, was claimed but later denied by the PRC and Israeli suspicions remain focused on Hamas, although PFLP involvement has also been suspected.  It remains to be seen what effect the recent strengthening and consolidation of Palestinian Authority security forces will have on the activities of the PRC.<br />

Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) -- Supported Cause
Popular Resistance Committees -- Supported Cause

First mentioned in March 2006, the Sami al-Ghul Brigades is one of several active armed factions of the Palestinian nationalist organization al-Fatah. Though al-Fatah has never publicly acknowledged any connection to these groups, it is believed that al-Fatah uses these splinter factions to simultaneously terrorize Israel while participating in legitimate politics under the premise that it does not use violent means to achieve its objectives. <P><br />Many Palestinian nationalist organizations employ the use of "armed wings" in an attempt to draw a distinction between their political cause and their terrorist tactics. The Sami al-Ghul Brigades is related to al-Fatah in much the same way as the al-Quds Brigades is related to Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades is related to al-Fatah, and the Salah al-Din Battalions is related to the Popular Resistance Committees. Though no evidence exists that decisively proves that the Sami al-Ghul Brigades is under the direct control of al-Fatah, it is assumed that the group shares al-Fatah's secular Palestinian nationalist ideology. <P><br />The Sami al-Ghul Brigades is known to conduct rocket attacks against Israeli targets, often in collaboration with other armed Palestinian factions, such as the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades or the Abu al-Rish Brigades. <br />