Arab Nationalist Youth for the Liberation of Palestine (ANYLP)

Arab National Youth Organization (ANYO), Arab Nationalist Youth Organization for the Liberation of Palestine (ANYOLP), Seventh Suicide Squad

The Arab Nationalist Youth for the Liberation of Palestine (ANYLP) carried out the majority of its attacks against American and Israeli aviation targets. The group was created by Libyan leader Muammar Ghaddafi as a method of indirectly fighting against the Americans and Israelis, but its short life is attributed to his fear that direct ties between the group and the Libyan government would be discovered, thereby inviting retaliation. After this, Ghaddafi switched his strategy and began to give support to both indigenous Palestinian organizations and foreign groups, such as the Japanese Red Army, that shared their violent goals.  <P><br />In addition to its claimed attacks in Lebanon and Jordan, the ANYLP is suspected of being behind a plot to attack an Israeli airliner in Cyprus.

The Arab Nationalist Youth for the Liberation of Palestine is no longer considered an active group since it was disbanded by Ghaddafi in the mid 1970s.

A group calling itself the "Arab Revenge Organization" claimed responsibility for a June 1984 bomb blast that badly damaged the British Cultural Center in Beirut, Lebanon.  The incident took place during the height of the Lebanese Civil War when bombings such as this were commonplace.  The Arab Revenge Organization was a previously unheard of group; their claim of responsibility promised more attacks on British targets in an effort to close the British Embassy, which they deemed an "espionage center."  <P><br /><br />Although very little is known about the Arab Revenge Organization, their tactics and target choice suggest that they were a Libyan or Iranian supported terrorist group, operating solely in the context of the Lebanese Civil War.  In 1991, after a series of small attacks on banks in Lebanon, the Arab Revenge Organization resurfaced with a communiqu&#233; calling for  "the population to keep away from the foreign institutions and not to deal with them because they will be a target for our strugglers.''  Despite having the same name, it is not thought that the group responsible for the communiqu&#233; and the bank bombings was the same group responsible for the attack on the British Cultural Center.  <br />