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	BBC News \| ASIA-PACIFIC \| Who are the Abu Sayyaf?
		The militant Islamic group Abu Sayyaf is one of several guerrilla organisations involved in a resurgence of violence in the Philippines during the past year.
		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.
		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)

	Abu Sayyaf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG), or simply Abu Sayyaf, also known as Al Harakat Al Islamiyya, is a separatist group of Islamist terrorists based in and around the southern islands of the Philippines, primarily Jolo, Basilan, and Mindanao.
		The ASG is the one of the smallest and arguably the most radical and dangerous of the Islamic separatist groups in Mindanao.
		Abu Sayyaf's first large-scale action was the beachhead assault on the town of Ipil in Mindanao in April 1995.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abu_Sayyaf (605 words)

	Philippines: Abu Sayyaf Group - The Heat is On - Ajai Sahni: Wars Within Borders -- Occasional writings on ...
		The ASG was immensely effective through the 1990s, initially consolidating its hold the Basilan and Sulu islands, a relatively small area, and later extending its activities to other Island groups in Mindanao, and eventually into the urban centres of the country, such as Manila and Cebu, as well.
		Despite a continuous weakening of the group, it was, in essence, the difficulty of terrain across the 1,700 square kilometres mountain jungles of the Basilan Islands, that had undermined the effectiveness of the earlier efforts to track down and neutralise the ASG.
		ASG cadres and collaborators had also been moving freely across Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, but recent improvements in passport and immigration control procedures have resulted in the arrest of at least a hundred international fugitives accused of terrorism,who were trying to enter the country.
	www.satp.org /satporgtp/ajaisahni/Pink130602.htm (1334 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)

	Military: Abu Sayyaf chief remains found - Boston.com
		Remains believed to be from the chief of the al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf group, who was the target of a monthslong U.S.-backed manhunt, have been found in the southern Philippines, the military said Wednesday.
		Abu Sayyaf says it is fighting to create a Muslim state in the southern Philippines, which has a large Muslim population.
		Abu Sayyaf's founder is Janjalani's brother, Abdurajak Abubakar Janjalani, who fought in Afghanistan before he was killed in a clash with Filipino police in late 1998.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2006/12/27/military_abu_sayyaf_chief_remains_found (561 words)

	Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG)
		The ASG is a violent Muslim terrorist group operating in the southern Philippines.
		The ASG engages in kidnappings for ransom, bombings, beheadings, assassinations, and extortion.
		The ASG was founded in Basilan Province and operates primarily in the provinces of the Sulu Archipelago, namely Basilan, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi.
	www.fas.org /irp/world/para/asg.htm (540 words)

	Military.com Resources
		The Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) is an Islamic separatist organization operating mainly in the southern Philippines.
		The group is fighting for a Muslim state on the island of Mindanao, but was forced to relocate many of its operations south to the islands of Basilan and Jolo.
		The group is estimated to have between 200 and 800 armed fighters, many of whom received indoctrination to Islamic fundamentalism in the Gulf States.
	www.military.com /Resources/ResourceFileView?file=ASG-Organization.htm (153 words)

	Abu Sayyaf Group Reference Page
		The group entered into a series of compromise agreements with the Marcos and Aquino governments that resulted in the establishment of the "Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao," a semi-independent region that would be administered by members of the MNLF.
		In 1992 the group began what would turn out to be a continuous series of bombings and ransom kidnappings that have only become bolder as time has passed.
		While these efforts seem to have the group on the run, eradication of Abu Sayyaf will be difficult due to the rough mountain and jungle terrain.
	www.military.com /Resources/ResourceFileView/ASG-History.htm (459 words)

	Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) - █ further reading:
		The Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) is the most violent of the Islamic separatist groups operating in the southern Philippines.
		The group split from the Moro National Liberation Front in the early 1990s under the leadership of Abdurajak Abubakar Janjalani, who was killed in a clash with Philippine police on 18 December, 1998.
		The ASG was founded in Basilan Province, and mainly operates there and in the neighboring provinces of Sulu and Tawi-Tawi in the Sulu Archipelago.
	www.espionageinfo.com /A-An/Abu-Sayyaf-Group-ASG.html (397 words)

	DefenseLINK News: A Global Terror Group Primer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The group also was responsible for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, an assassination attempt on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in 1995, the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 and the attack on the destroyer USS Cole in 2000.
		Abu Sayyaf: Affiliated with Al Qaeda, it is the most radical Islamic separatist group in the southern Philippines.
		The group, led by Khadafi Janjalani, is under attack by the Philippine army and police.
	www.defenselink.mil /news/Feb2002/n02142002_200202141.html (2370 words)

	Abu Sayyaf Group (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The ASG is the most violent of the Islamic separatist groups operating in the southern Philippines.
		The group’s first large-scale action was a raid on the town of Ipil in Mindanao in April 1995.
		The ASG was founded in Basilan Province, and mainly operates there and in the neighboring provinces of Sulu and Tawi-Tawi in the Sulu Archipelago.
	www.meta-religion.com /Extremism/Islamic_extremism/abu_sayyaf_group.htm (373 words)

	ABU SAYYAF GROWING INTO MAJOR TERRORIST GROUP - EXPERT
		The Abu Sayyaf gang in the southern Philippines is slowly transforming into a major terrorist group capable of carrying out Bali-type attacks with the help of the Jemaah Islamiyah, an expert said yesterday.
		The Abu Sayyaf, a small Muslim group that operates in several islands in the southern Philippines, gained notoriety in 2000 and 2001 with a series of kidnappings of western tourists, including Americans.
		Abuza, an acknowledged expert on cross-border terrorism, noted that the Abu Sayyaf’s recent bombing attacks appear to have the hallmarks of JI, whose alleged leader Abu Bakar Bashir was convicted yesterday for taking part in a "sinister conspiracy" that led to the Bali bombings in Indonesia that left 202 dead in 2002.
	www.newsflash.org /2004/02/hl/hl101886.htm (800 words)

	INQ7 Specials \| Inside the Abu Sayyaf (Site not responding. Last check: )
		ZAMBOANGA CITY -- It was the outlaw group Abu Sayyaf that abducted three Americans and 17 Filipinos early Sunday from a high-end resort in Puerto Princesa City, and as proof, its spokesperson put two of its alleged hostages on the air.
		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)

	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 (630 words)

	Abu Sayyaf
		The Abu Sayyaf group is a small Islamic group but the most radical and most violent organized Islamic group in the Philippines.
		The group is mostly active on the island of Mindanao and the islands south of Mindanao.
		Abu Sayyaf members crossed the border of neighbour country Malaysia to have a quick and short visit to a beach resort on one of the Malaysian island.
	www.philippines.hvu.nl /mindanao4.htm (519 words)

	Abu Sayyaf
		Abu Sayyaf is heavily penetrated by Philippine undercover operatives at this time, especially Edwin Angeles, an operative who is the second in command of the group.
		It will later come to light that the Abu Sayyaf militant group is deeply penetrated by the Philippine government at this time, as even the second in command of the group is an undercover operative (see 1991-Early February 1995).
		From at least 1991 to 1995, Abu Sayyaf is deeply penetrated by a Philippine government operative (see 1991-Early February 1995), but it unclear what the US government may have been told about Odeh and when.
	www.cooperativeresearch.org /entity.jsp?entity=abu_sayyaf (8137 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.
	www.cfrterrorism.org /groups/abusayyaf.html (489 words)

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		The Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG), whose name means "Bearer of the Sword" or "Father of the Swordsman" in Arabic, is a small Islamist group composed of several hundred young Muslim radicals fighting for the establishment of an Iranian-style Islamic state in the impoverished, southern Philippine island of Mindanao.
		ASG was established in the late 1980s in Basilan Province, which continues to serve, along with the neighboring provinces of Sulu and Tawi-Tawi (in the Sulu Archipelago), as ASG's base of operations.
		ASG was established by a group of nine founding fathers, headed by the Islamic preacher Abdurajak Janjalani.
	www.discoverthenetworks.org /groupProfile.asp?grpid=6435 (1111 words)

	Abu Sayyaf Group (Philippines, Islamist separatists) - Council on Foreign Relations
		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.
		The Philippine government is in the middle of a military offensive against Abu Sayyaf rebels in the south in efforts to quell the group’s attacks against civilians.
		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.
	www.cfr.org /publication/9235 (1127 words)

	US troops arrive to aid hunt for Abu Sayyaf
		Abu Sayyaf leaders say they are fighting for a separate Muslim homeland in the southern Philippines but government officials argue they are in fact little more than a brutal kidnap-for-ransom group.
		The group split from the Moro National Liberation Front --the largest remaining Philippine Islamist separatist group -- in 1991 under the leadership of Abdurajik Abubakar Janjalani, who was killed in a clash with Philippine police in December 1998.
		The ASG is still working to fill a leadership void resulting from his death, although press reports place his younger brother, Khadafi Janjalani, as head of the group's operations in the Basilan Province.
	www.groups.sfahq.com /1st/02_01_us_troops_arrive_to_aid_hu.htm (1336 words)

	MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base
		Founding Philosophy: The Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) was formed in 1991 during the peace process between the Philippine government and the nationalist/separatist terrorist group, the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF).
		While the Abu Sayyaf Group remains nominally committed to the formation of a Muslim state in the southern Philippines, the group has recently shifted toward predominantly criminal enterprises.
		The Abu Sayyaf Group is the most violent remnant of that terrorist movement.
	www.tkb.org /Group.jsp?groupID=204 (518 words)

	RMS-GS Translations
		Edwin Angeles, a former leader of the Abu Sayaff in Basilan, told in public after the elections of 1995, that it was the Abu Sayaff Group that was responsible for the raid and the razing down of the town of Ipil in Zamboanga del Sur in early 1995.
		Informers: 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.
		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.rms-gs.de /phileng/history/abu.html (4448 words)

	Terrorism Havens: Philippines - Council on Foreign Relations
		Abu Sayyaf is thought to have several hundred members and is listed by the White House as a terrorist organization.
		Abu Sayyaf’s first leader, Abdurajak Janjalani, fought in the international Islamist brigade in Afghanistan during the Soviet occupation.
		The Philippine army was pursuing Abu Sayyaf before September 11, and the government was discussing economic development of Muslim areas to combat discontent.
	www.cfr.org /publication/9365 (1135 words)

	js-2157: Janjalani Designated for Leadership Position in the Abu Sayyaf Group
		The group was formed in the early 1990s under the leadership of Janjalani's older brother, Abdurajak Abubakar Janjalani.
		Using Schilling as leverage, the ASG demanded the release of three individuals imprisoned by the U.S. Government, payment of $10 million in ransom and the cessation of military operations by the Government of the Philippines against the ASG.
		The ASG again threatened to behead or otherwise kill the hostages if their demands were not met.
	www.treas.gov /press/releases/js2157.htm (598 words)

	SITE Institute: Background on Terrorist Groups - Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG)
		Some ASG leaders allegedly fought in Afghanistan during the Soviet war and are students and proponents of radical Islamic teachings.
		The group split from the much larger Moro National Liberation Front in the early 1990s under the leadership of Abdurajak Abubakar Janjalani, who was killed in a clash with Philippine police on 18 December 1998.
		In April of 2000, an ASG faction kidnapped 21 persons—including 10 Western tourists—from a resort in Malaysia.
	www.siteinstitute.org /bin/display_groupbackground.cgi?Category=Groups&ID=2 (444 words)

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