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| | TIMEasia.com: News -- Perpetually Perilous (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | Today, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is having an even tougher time than Pershing in vanquishing the Moro's pirate descendants: the Islamic militant group known as Abu Sayyaf, which is holding 13 hostages, including three Americans, in the jungles of the country's deepest south. |
 | | Philippine police sources believe Yousef may have tried to recruit Abu Sayyaf for two bloody schemes in 1995: the assassination of Pope John Paul II in Manila and a plan to plant bombs on U.S. airliners flying out of the Philippines. |
 | | A cleric familiar with the group's history says that Abu Sabaya, whose real name is Ahmad Salayudi, was banished from the Afghan camp for troublemaking. |
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