Shurafa al-Urdun has demonstrated limited activity in the past.  Its current activities and goals are not known.

Simon Bolivar Guerilla Coordinating Board (CGSB)

National Liberation Army (Colombia) -- Faction
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) -- Faction

In the 1980s, several leftist terrorist organizations in Colombia created an umbrella organization, from which to coordinate negotiations with the Colombian government and to coordinate certain terrorist activities.  The National Guerrilla Coordinating Board (CNG), formed in 1985, was the forerunner to a broader coordinating board.   In 1987, CNG was reconstituted as the Simon Bolivar Coordinating Board (CGSB).  CGSB was created as a unified front for the terrorist-organization members.   While CGSB engaged the government in negotiations, the terrorist members simultaneously held onto their rebel-controlled areas and remained willing, at varying levels, to commit terrorist attacks.  The Simon Bolivar Coordinating Board was comprised of Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), April 19 Movement (M-19), National Liberation Army (ELN), Popular Liberation Army (EPL), Workers' Revolutionary Party (PRT) and the Quintin Lame Command.  <P><br /><br />CGSB participated in a series of government talks in the early 1990s.  The talks were jeopardized several times by terrorist attacks of the FARC and ELN.  Despite the continuing aggression of the two largest terrorist groups, CGSB did achieve limited success.  Resulting from government negotiations, M-19 put down its arms in 1990.  EPL's main body followed step, ceasing its operations in 1991.  However, Colombia's largest leftist terrorist organizations, FARC and ELN, did not reach a settlement with the government and continue terrorist operations to this day.  In fact, while some groups seriously negotiated for an end to hostilities, other elements of the CGSB continued to perpetrate terrorist attacks, claiming attacks both under the umbrella of CGSB and as individual terrorist groups.