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	Abu Sayyaf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) (Arabic: جماعة أبو سياف), or simply Abu Sayyaf, also known as Al Harakat Al Islamiyya, is an Islamist terrorist separatist group of based in and around the southern islands of the Philippines, primarily Jolo, Basilan, and Mindanao.
		Abu Sayyaf's first large-scale action was the beachhead assault on the town of Ipil in Mindanao in April 1995.
		[Abu Sayyaf is estimated to have a core membership of 200 with an extended membership of over 2000.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abu_Sayyaf (571 words)

	BBC News \| ASIA-PACIFIC \| Who are the Abu Sayyaf?
		Abu Sayyaf - or "father of the swordsman" in Arabic - was named after a mujahedin fighter in Afghanistan in the 1980s, where a number of its members fought against the Soviet-backed regime.
		The founder of Abu Sayyaf - Abdurajak Abubakar Janjalani - was an Islamic scholar.
		Abu Sayyaf is the most militant of the anti-Manila groups and wants an independent Islamic state in Mindanao - an impoverished region with an annual income a mere fifth of the national Philippines average.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/719623.stm (561 words)

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		Abu is a volcano on the island of Honshu in Japan.
		Mount Abu is the highest mountain in the Indian state of Rajasthan.
		Abu (correctly '-b-w) is Ancient Egyptian for "elephant" and thus also for Aswan (Greek Elephantinē) because of rocks in the Nile that look like bathing elephants.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abu (192 words)

	Terrorism - In the Spotlight: Abu Sayyaf
		Abu Sayyaf, "Bearer of the Sword," is a cross between a chilling gang of bandits, kidnapping for money and hijacking religion itself to gain local support, and a franchise operation of al Qaeda.
		Abu Sayyaf was founded by Abdurajak Janjalani, an Islamic scholar and mujahedin in the Afghan-Soviet war, after he, like the contemporaries that formed his initial recruiting crop, returned from studies in Saudi Arabia and Libya determined to fulfill the Muslim ideal of an Islamic state.
		Abu Sayyaf's activities were domestic in scope and remained relatively unknown until it blasted out of obscurity with the April 23, 2000, kidnapping at Sipadan.
	www.cdi.org /terrorism/sayyaf.cfm (1005 words)

	Online NewsHour: Abu Sayyaf Profile
		The Abu Sayyaf, one of 29 terrorist organizations on the State Department's watchlist, is a militant Islamic group based primarily in the southern Philippine islands of Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi.
		The Abu Sayyaf is believed to have been funded by al-Qaida in the early 1990s and bin Laden's brother-in-law, Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, reportedly met directly with the group in its early years.
		According to Abu Sayyaf, the group is fighting for a sovereign Islamic state in the southern Philippines.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/terrorism/international/abu_sayyaf.html (613 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Asia / Growing Abu Sayyaf links concern Filipinos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Abu Sofia gunmen, based in the central region of southern Mindanao island, have given refuge to Abu Sayyaf guerrilla leaders Khaddafy Janjalani and Isnilon Hapilon and their followers after military offensives displaced them three years ago from southern Basilan island, military officials said.
		Several commanders of the Abu Sayyaf, the MILF and Misuari's followers met last year near the southern town of Siocon to discuss tactical cooperation and unspecified joint plans, said a senior security official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
		Security officials differ in their analysis of alliances between the Abu Sayyaf and other armed groups, with most saying they were on a "tactical or operational level." Government officials have acknowledged the links but were unclear on their depth.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2005/03/07/growing_abu_sayyaf_links_concern_filipinos (671 words)

	AP: Report shows plots against U.S., U.K. - Boston.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Abu Sayyaf members have been battling government troops in the southern Philippines, and the group has been blamed for bombings and other terror attacks in recent years, including two explosions in the southern port of Zamboanga that wounded 30 people late Wednesday.
		Among attacks blamed on the Abu Sayyaf were three almost-simultaneous Feb. 14 bombings that killed eight people and wounded more than 120 in Manila and the southern cities of General Santos and Davao.
		Two Abu Sayyaf would-be suicide bombers were waiting to acquire "luxury cars" to use in the attacks, it said.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2005/08/11/ap_report_shows_plots_against_us_uk (594 words)

	Terrorism: Q & A \| Abu Sayyaf Group
		Abu Sayyaf (the phrase means “bearer of the sword” in Arabic) is a militant organization based in the southern Philippines seeking a separate Islamic state for the country's Muslim minority.
		In 2000, Abu Sayyaf captured an American Muslim visiting Jolo Island and demanded that the United States release Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman and Ramzi Yousef, who were jailed for their involvement in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
		Abu Sayyaf split from the Moro National Liberation Front, one of the two major Muslim separatist movements in the southern Philippines, which were then trying to come to terms with the central government in Manila.
	cfrterrorism.org /groups/abusayyaf.html (489 words)

	Sen. Aquilino Q. Pimentel - Speeches - TREASONOUS HANDLING OF THE ABU SAYYAF (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Because the Abu Sayyaf was operating on the fringe of the Muslim insurgency in the country, its partisans were enticed by certain officers of the armed forces to serve as informers on the activities of the Muslim insurgents in Southern Mindanao.
		Edwin Angeles, a leader of the Abu Sayaff in Basilan, told me after the elections of 1995, that it was the Abu Sayaff that was responsible for the raid and the razing down of the town of Ipil, Zamboanga del Sur in early 1995.
		Their mission, most likely, was to get the Abu Sayyaf partisans as their sources of information on the movements of the Muslim insurgents and probably of their allies from other Muslim countries and as friendly pawns in the game of divide and rule as far as the Muslim insurgency is concerned.
	www.nenepimentel.org /speeches/20000802.shtml (2089 words)

	From MNLF to Abu Sayyaf
		The founder of Abu Sayyaf was Abduragak Abubakar Janjalani, who led the group until December 1998, when was killed by the police in the Lamitan village in Basilan Island.[23] Janjalani was a veteran of the Afghan war and during his participation in the war he developed close ties with other Islamic radical groups.
		Abu Sayyaf rejects the practice of the complementary non-violent mobilization (Dawa) since violent struggle (Jihad) corresponds to the group’s ideological strategy, while moderation of the struggle constitutes an inevitable acceptance of the MNLF’s “concessions” to the State.
		Alternately, should Abu Sayyaf choose to conduct a non-violent struggle against the State, the group could find itself on a track of decline since such developments could be perceived as a diversion from the Islamic aim of its struggle.
	www.ict.org.il /articles/articledet.cfm?articleid=116 (2959 words)

	TIME Asia Magazine: The Return of Abu Sayyaf -- Aug. 30, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Responsibility for the attack was immediately claimed by representatives of Abu Sayyaf, a group of Islamic separatists chiefly known for kidnapping for ransom in the southern Philippines.
		Abu Sayyaf was founded in the 1980s, with the backing of men who were at the heart of al-Qaeda.
		But after the death of Abu Sayyaf's founder Abdurajak Janjalani in a firefight with police in August 1998, its religious and political goals were dropped in favor of kidnapping for ransom.
	www.time.com /time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501040830-686107,00.html (1374 words)

	Gulfnews: Abu Sayyaf demand P1m to free nurse
		The Abu Sayyaf Group has called for the payment of $19,607 (P1m) for the safe release of Deborah Yap, a Filipina nurse, her relatives said in a radio interview.
		Filipina nurse Deborah Yap is still in the custody of the Abu Sayyaf Group in the hinterlands of Basilan, southern Philippines.
		Karno negotiated with the Abu Sayyaf Group earlier for the release of the more than 40 mostly foreign hostages who were abducted in Malaysia and Jolo between April and August last year.
	archive.gulfnews.com /articles/01/11/17/32828.html (495 words)

	PHILIPPINES : ABU SAYYAF — The rebel group strikes again
		Abu Sayyaf is largely based in the islands of Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi in southern Philippines.
		Abu Sayyaf is one of the four rebel groups operating in southern Philippines.
		Abu Sayyaf is the smallest but the most radical of all these groups.
	www.saag.org /papers13/paper1299.html (1486 words)

	Terrorism: Q & A
		Also, Abu Sayyaf claimed responsibility for a 1994 bomb that was planted under a passenger seat on a Philippine Airlines jet; this bombing, which killed a Japanese businessman, was a test run for a 1995 plot to simultaneously blow up 11 U.S. passenger jetliners over the Pacific Ocean.
		The governments of the United States and the Philippines suspect Abu Sayyaf is part of al-Qaeda, and the United States says Abu Sayyaf helps coordinate al-Qaeda activity in Southeast Asia.
		Abu Sayyaf, they say, is the latest incarnation of the centuries-old island bandit tradition in a region that has resisted Christian rule since the Spanish reached the Philippines in the 16th century.
	cfrterrorism.org /groups/abusayyaf_print.html (1059 words)

	Prominent Abu Sayyaf Commander Believed Dead
		A top leader of the Abu Sayyaf Muslim Islamic militant group is believed to have been killed Friday morning in a clash with government troops in the southern Philippines.
		Abu Sabaya's cell first burst into international headlines on April 23, 2000, when they raided a resort off the coast of Indonesia, making off with 21 hostages, including many foreigners.
		In an ironic twist, a Philippines navy source said that the three-engine speedboat used by the naval patrol to intercept the Abu Sayyaf dinghy was the same boat that Abu Sabaya had used to seize American hostages in Palawan more than a year ago.
	www.ict.org.il /spotlight/det.cfm?id=796 (660 words)

	INQ7 Specials \| Inside the Abu Sayyaf
		USING children as human shields against heavy gunfire, Abu Sayyaf kidnappers broke through a military cordon around a hospital and church compound in a Basilan town after midnight Saturday and melted into the surrounding jungle with at least 14 hostages, the military said.
		TWO suspected members of the Abu Sayyaf were shot dead and two others were wounded by soldiers in a clash on the outskirts of the capital of Basilan Island on Saturday night.
		THREATENED by the beheading of the Americans held by the Abu Sayyaf, Malacañang yesterday said it was agreeing to the bandit group’s demand to include a Malaysian ex-senator in negotiations for the hostages’ release.
	www.inq7.net /specials/inside_abusayyaf/2001/stories/stories_01.htm (905 words)

	Asia Times: The two worlds of Abu Sayyaf
		Abu Sayyaf began operations in the early 1990s, after the worst of the Moro guerrilla and government's counterinsurgency violence had passed.
		Abu Sayyaf appears more radical than the MNLF and MILF because it incorporates elements of Islamist jihadism into its ideology.
		The Islamist movements of the 1990s waged jihad against their home governments through terrorist or guerrilla tactics; Abu Sayyaf's proclaimed jihad regards the government and AFP as oppressors that must be banished from Moro lands by any means necessary.
	www.atimes.com /se-asia/CH17Ae01.html (1341 words)

	Commandos kill top Abu Sayyaf leader - smh.com.au
		Zamboanga, Philippines: Philippine troops today recovered the body of senior Abu Sayyaf leader Abu Sabaya, who was killed along with two of his men in a high seas shootout, a military official said.
		Abu Sabaya's death could prove a major blow to the Muslim rebels who have terrorised the Philippines and a swathe of the South China Seas since mid-2000 with their kidnap-for-ransom campaign.
		The Abu Sayyaf has been linked by both Manila and Washington to the al-Qaeda terror network of Osama bin Laden, suspected mastermind of the September 11 attack in the United States.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/06/21/1023864496806.html (770 words)

	ABU SAYYAF TERRORISTS BLUFFING ON HOSTAGES
		He said President Arroyo would not be cowed by the Abu Sayyaf’s threat to kill American missionary couple Martin and Gracia Burnham after she rejected their final offer to negotiate for the release of the hostages.
		Abu Sayyaf leader Aldam Tilao, alias Abu Sabaya, made the threat after the government turned down his group’s demand to designate one of the President’s top advisers to spearhead negotiations for the hostages’ freedom.
		Although Golez acknowledged the stalemate, he expressed hopes that the Abu Sayyaf terrorists would not harm their captives, saying it would be a violation of the teachings of Islam.
	www.newsflash.org /2002/04/hl/hl015631.htm (685 words)

	RARE Interview with ABU NIDAL (alias), 35, from Basilan Abu Sayyaf Group (mentions Burnhams)
		Abu Nidal is a senior member of the Abu Sayyaf Basilan Island group, and a close confidante and personal bodyguard of Abu Sayyaf group leader Khadafy Janjalani.
		ABU NIDAL: The group wants the big fishing boats (owned by outsiders) to be out of Basilan waters for Moslem women students should be allowed to wear the Moslem head scarf and at physical education classes they should not wear shorts.
		ABU NIDAL: It's not a problem for us at all if they bring all their firepower and technology they are not God, only Allah is the supreme.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/660617/posts (737 words)

	CNN.com - Search for Abu Sayyaf leader's body - June 22, 2002
		Abu Sabaya's body reportedly sank into the sea after he was shot during the clash between his men and the Philippine forces on Friday.
		Sabaya was one of five Abu Sayyaf leaders targeted under the U.S. State Department's Rewards for Justice program, which has offered a $5 million reward for his arrest or conviction.
		Sabaya, who was regarded as the group's spokesman, was the head of the Abu Sayyaf faction that kidnapped and held American missionaries Martin and Gracia Burnham for just more than a year.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/06/21/philippines.rebel (716 words)

	The Philippines - U.S. - Abu Sayyaf - Mindanao - Worldpress.org
		The Philippines - U.S. - Abu Sayyaf - Mindanao - Worldpress.org
		The exercises are aimed at extirpating Abu Sayyaf, a group that both the United States and the Philippines consider terrorists.
		Moreover, charges that the Abu Sayyaf is paying a part of the ransom money to the military have delegitimized the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in a way that conflict with the “legitimate” rebels, the MILF and MNLF, never has.
	www.worldpress.org /print_article.cfm?article_id=1169&dont=yes (2048 words)

	ABS-CBN Interactive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The military said it had foiled "a major plan" by Abu Sayyaf rebels to attack the capital of 12 million people by arresting the suspect, a convert to Islam identified as Tyron Santos, in Quezon City on Tuesday.
		Abu Sayyaf, linked to al Qaeda and the regional militant network Jema'ah Islamiyah (JI), is the smallest Muslim rebel group in the Philippines but among the deadliest after a trio of blasts in mid-February and the bombing of a ferry in early 2004.
		The Indonesian, identified as Rohmat, said on Wednesday Abu Sayyaf leaders Khaddafy Janjalani and Abu Sulaiman gave P100,000 to a member of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) for attacks during the Holy Week.
	www.abs-cbnnews.com /topofthehour.aspx?StoryId=1285 (577 words)

	Mindanao Updates
		Some of the Abu Sayyaf leaders based in Sulu had fought in the Afghanistan war in their teens.
		But it is easy to justify a money-making venture: the Abu Sayyaf has not been receiving foreign funding and it has to sustain the operation of its fighters and their families.
		But even under Abdurajak, the Abu Sayyaf was already kidnapping and killing with abandon—proof that the older Janjalani was not able to match his rhetoric with the realities demanded by his jobless and hapless constituents.
	www.pcij.org /mindanao/abusayyaf3.html (797 words)

	DefenseLINK News: U.S., Philippines to Operate Against Abu Sayyaf Terrorists
		The area is the new center of Abu Sayyaf activity.
		Later that month, Philippine forces overran several Abu Sayyaf camps and reportedly killed a major group leader, Abu Sabaya, in a predawn gunfight in boats at sea between Mindanao and Basilan islands.
		Abu Sayyaf shifted its attention from Basilan to other areas of the archipelago.
	www.defenselink.mil /news/Feb2003/n02212003_200302212.html (424 words)

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