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Article: Foreign funding to Abu Sayyaf dries up-bandit leader
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- The Manila Times
- Article date:
- September 19, 2007
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ZAMBOANGA CITY: The Abu Sayyaf has stopped receiving funds from abroad, as its members remain on the run from authorities.
In a clandestine interview with Al-Jazeera television in Basilan, Abu Kahlid, an Abu Sayyaf militant, said his group has lost the capability to launch large-scale attacks similar to the bombing of a ferry off Manila Bay in February 2004 that killed more than 100 people. The TV report aired Monday.
Khalid is a cousin of a senior Abu Sayyaf leader Isnilon Hapilon, who is wanted both by the Philippines and the United States for killing two Americans who were kidnapped in 2001.
Khalid said the Abu Sayyaf stopped receiving funding from abroad and, as a consequence, ...