From the early 1990s on, the United Liberation Front of Assam has continually increased its terrorist activities.  The group assassinates political opponents, attacks police and other security forces, blasts railroad tracks, and attacks other infrastructure facilities.  The Indian military undertook operations to counter ULFA's terrorist attacks, leading to the arrests and deaths of hundreds of ULFA members.  The government's response, combined with backlash from Assam civilians regarding the increasingly violent actions of ULFA, reduced the group's membership for a time.  Still, the group is estimated at several thousand members and continued terrorist attacks are expected.

National Revolutionary Command (Omar al-Mukhtar) -- Suspected Alias/Ally

Unified Nasserite Organization, United Nasirite Organizaiton

The United Nasserite Organization (UNO) was a pro-Libyan group responsible for two high-profile attacks on British military personnel in Cyprus in the late 1980s.  <P><br /><br />The first attack attributed to the UNO took place in August 1986, when a small band of terrorists fired mortars, light weapons, and rocket-propelled grenades at British airmen and their families on a beach near a British airbase in Akrotiri, Cyprus.  Although the UNO directed a barrage of gunfire towards the sunbathers, only two women were hurt and no deaths were reported.  The UNO took responsibility for the attack, saying that it was in response to British support of a US air strike against Libyan leadership earlier that month.  The group issued their claim of responsibility from Beirut, and mentioned Omar al-Mukhtar, a Libyan hero and namesake of a similar terrorist group in Lebanon (National Revolutionary Command (Omar al-Mukhtar)).  It is likely that these two groups were allies or that the UNO was simply an alias for the National Revolutionary Command.  The term "Nasserite" refers to organizations that supported pan-Arab causes as promoted by the former Egyptian leader Gamal Abdul Nasser.  Several legitimate political parties in the Arab world employ the Nasserite name and have no connection with the UNO.    <P><br /><br />In August 1987 the UNO took responsibility for another attack on British personnel in Cyprus.  Group members attacked a military vehicle with machine-gun fire, seriously wounding a British soldier and a civilian companion.  <P><br /><br />From the group's targets, it is clear that the UNO was a Libyan-nationalist group whose goal was to take revenge on Western targets for the US air strikes which killed over 100 people, including the daughter of Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi.  Libya was one of the largest state-sponsors of terrorism in the 1980s and attacks such as the ones perpetrated by UNO were common in Lebanon and Cyprus.  <br /><br />