The Lautaro Youth Movement's leader, Guillermo Ossand&oacute;n, was captured in 1994.  The group is no longer active.

Lebanese Arab Youth was a short-lived organization that claimed responsibility for a series of attacks against Egyptian interests in Beirut, Lebanon in 1977. <P><br /><br />The group emerged out of a conflict between Egypt and hard-line Arab states, concerning Egypt's movements toward peace negotiations with Israel.  The most notable of these overtures was a November 1977 visit to Jerusalem by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.  Other Arab countries saw this visit as a betrayal of the Palestinian people, and a peace agreement between Israel and Egypt would eventually lead to Egypt being expelled from the Arab League in 1979. <P><br /><br />Outrage and protest against Sadat's visit to Jerusalem was high in many countries, especially in Lebanon, home to thousands of Palestinian refugees.  To that end, in Lebanon over the course of three days in December 1977, a group calling itself Lebanese Arab Youth was responsible for an attempted bombing and missile attack on the Egyptian Embassy, an attempted bombing of an Egyptian diplomat, and the attempted bombing of an Egyptian airline.  All of the attacks took place in Beirut.  In a statement released to news agencies, the group identified itself and wrote, "These attacks are only the beginning.  Our future strikes against the traitors and everything associated with them will be harder."  Beyond an opposition to peace with Israel, the Lebanese Arab Youth did not reveal an underlying ideology behind its attacks.  <P><br />

Lebanese Arab Youth has not been responsible for any additional attacks since 1977. Although these incidents and other protests in the Arab world would not stop an eventual peace deal between Egypt and Israel, Anwar Sadat would be assassinated in 1981, due to his willingness to pursue peace.

Factions Armees Revolutionnaires Libanaises (FARL)

The Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Faction (Factions Armees Revolutionnaires Libanaises  --  FARL) grew out of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine  --  Special Operations Group (PFLP-SOG), after the death of its leader, Wadi Haddad, in 1979.  Although the FARL, PFLP and PFLP-SOG were all Marxist-Leninist organizations, some of the aims of the groups differed.  While the PFLP and its factions advocated revolutionary political change throughout the Arab world, the FARL focused on the creation of a Marxist-Leninist state in Lebanon.  However, the PFLP and FARL shared a majority of their goals: both groups violently supported the cause of the Palestinians by attacking Israeli targets abroad and opposed the constitutional government of Lebanon by attacking its foreign supporters, namely the US, France and Israel. The FARL's membership was mainly Lebanese Christian, although it opposed the dominant Christian Phalange party.<br /><P><br />The group's most famous attack was the murder of Lt. Col. Charles R. Ray, assistant US military attach&#233; in Paris, whom the group gunned down outside of his apartment in 1982.  Later investigations established that the FARL collaborated with Action Directe in this attack.  The FARL also collaborated with the Italian Red Brigades in the 1984 Rome murder of Leamon Hunt, American Chief of the Multinational Force and Observer Group assigned to monitor the Camp David accords between Israel and Egypt.<br />