The ABT would take their focus off of A.C. for short periods of time to deal with lesser but still deadly threats, and this gave A.C. time to regroup. The ABT was in a state of war with multiple gangs who saw an opportunity to try to take them on while they were being weakened during those 8 years. Still, none has ever won a war against them, though the Mexican Mafia and Aryan Circle came away with "peace treaties" from them in the early 1990s.