Although Horst Ludwig Meyer is still dead, his supporters have not engaged in any acts of protest since the first one in 1999.  No further activity is expected.

Riyad us-Saliheyn Martyrs' Brigade -- Founding Group and Faction

Though its name is certainly fierce, the "Sword of Islam" is essentially a small-time band of ineffectual Chechen terrorists.  The group may or may not be associated with larger Chechen fundamentalist organizations, such as Shamil Basayev's Riyad us-Saliheyn Martyrs' Brigade but that cannot yet be verified.  The group's literature preaches a similar line to Basayev's, urging the violent expulsion of Russian forces from Chechnya, and the creation of an independent Chechen state under sharia (strict Muslim) law.<br />

On two occasions, one in 1998 and one in 1999, terrorists claiming to belong to the organization detonated bombs in villages of Chechnya's neighboring province, Dagestan.  In both instances, investigators found leaflets near the bomb sites spouting Chechen separatist rhetoric and bearing the name of the Sword of Islam group.  Neither bombing caused any casualties, although the 1998 attack did some damage to an electrical power station.  A third plot may have been foiled in April 2001 when Russian authorities in Chechnya detained two heavily armed men claiming membership in the Sword of Islam organization.  What exactly these men were intending to do remains a mystery, but their possession of machine guns, grenades, and ski masks at the time of arrest certainly suggests the desire to cause serious damage to someone or something.  No further activity has been observed from the group since the 2001 arrests.  <br />

As the insurgency rages in Iraq, the kidnapping of foreign nationals continues at a steady clip.  It is likely that the Swords of Righteousness Brigades remains an active organization and that further kidnappings are possible, either for monetary or ideological reasons.

Syrian Mujahideen was the name of a terrorist organization that operated in Belgium in the 1980s. It is unclear whether or not the group actually existed. In its history, Syrian Mujahideen was only associated with one attack, the assassination of Antanios Hanna, the First Secretary of the Syrian Embassy in Brussels, on October 7, 1987.<P> A group by the name of People's Mujahideen also claimed the attack. It is likely that People's Mujahideen were the actual perpetrators of the attack, given their failed attempt to assassinate another Syrian diplomat in December 1989. However, it is also possible that Syrian Mujahideen and People's Mujahideen were one in the same, as their claims of responsibility contained similar language alleging that Hanna was a Syrian intelligence officer. Given the group's name and information divulged in their claim of responsibility, it appears that Syrian Mujahideen opposed the secular Ba'ath government of Syria and its intelligence services, renowned for crushing government opposition brutally.