Philippine military blames, then denies Abu Sayyaf responsible for...

AP Worldstream;  August 23, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Philippines At the height of the last Abu Sayyaf kidnapping spree, it seemed that just...which said just weeks ago that the Abu Sayyaf was decimated and on the run _ was trying...Things had been looking up. A yearlong Abu Sayyaf kidnapping spree came to a bloody but...

Abu Sayyaf

Southeast Asian Affairs;  January 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......in progress, another Muslim group, the Abu Sayyaf, attracted publicity following hostage-taking incidents in March-April 2000. The Abu Sayyaf first attracted notice in 1991 following...kidnapping and extortion. Writing about the Abu Sayyaf in 1999, Vitug and Gloria summarized...

Abu Sayyaf turning into a dangerous RP version of bloody JI.(Provincial...

Manila Bulletin;  March 25, 2005 ;     668 words ......BONG REBLANDO GENERAL SANTOS CITY The Abu Sayyaf is slowly transforming into a major terrorist...violence, and evidence suggests, the Abu Sayyaf has received terror training from them...islands in the Southern Philippines, the Abu Sayyaf gained notoriety in 2000 and 2001 for...

Foreign funding to Abu Sayyaf dries up-bandit leader

The Manila Times;  September 19, 2007 ;     700+ words ...ZAMBOANGA CITY: The Abu Sayyaf has stopped receiving funds from...television in Basilan, Abu Kahlid, an Abu Sayyaf militant, said his group has lost...Monday. Khalid is a cousin of a senior Abu Sayyaf leader Isnilon Hapilon, who is wanted...

AFP troops seize 4 Abu Sayyaf camps; Operations stepped up in Sulu.(Main...

Manila Bulletin;  June 28, 2002 ;     503 words ......that military teams pursuing the remaining Abu Sayyaf elements have overrun four Abu Sayyaf camps in Patikul, Sulu. A report relayed to...Servando, AFP public information officer, the Abu Sayyaf camps were heavily fortified with trenches...

Arroyo says Abu Sayyaf nearly defeated, dismisses guerrilla attempts to...

AP Worldstream;  April 21, 2004 ;     462 words ......al-Qaida-linked Muslim extremist group Abu Sayyaf is a spent force on the run from authorities...Associated Press earlier this week that the Abu Sayyaf, with a 13-year history of ransom kidnappings...militants. They said the leader of the Abu Sayyaf's main faction, Khadaffy ...

VOA NEWS: ABU SAYYAF DEFECTORS TALK OF DIFFICULT LIFE IN JUNGLES

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  February 21, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Asia's most violent terrorist groups, Abu Sayyaf, is under siege in the southern Philippines...visited the island of Jolo where the Abu Sayyaf is based and has this report on the defectors...authorities, they fled their homes and joined Abu Sayyaf, a group in the hills that they had ...

American troops head to Philippines to help crush Abu Sayyaf.

Chicago Tribune (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service);  January 21, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Uli Schmetzer MANILA_The Abu Sayyaf guerrillas, of the southern Philippines...President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo defines the Abu Sayyaf as a money-crazed gang of criminals...to the Philippines to help against the Abu Sayyaf. U.S. military cargo planes flying into...

Delving into the Abu Sayyaf

New Straits Times;  June 4, 2000 ;     700+ words ......Straits Times 06-04-2000 Delving into the Abu Sayyaf Byline: Zainon Ahmad Edition: New Sunday...2* Section: Focus Memo: (STF) - The Abu Sayyaf is a feared group in southern Mindanao...Pulau Sipadan hostage crisis. WHO are the Abu Sayyaf? "A bunch of kidnappers," said Governor...

The Philippine branch of terror: Al Qaeda is believed to have given...

The Christian Science Monitor;  October 26, 2001 ;     700+ words ......There are so many links between the Abu Sayyaf Group of the Philippines, which beheaded...during a 1995 visit to Manila. A captured Abu Sayyaf guerrilla, Edwin Angeles, told Philippines...Khalifa, played a crucial role in founding Abu Sayyaf. In his debriefing, Mr. Angeles, who...

Philippine Air Force Bombards Abu Sayyaf Lairs

Xinhua News Agency;  October 6, 2001 ;     337 words ......Force launchedair strikes against the Abu Sayyaf lairs in the south as the military pressed...being held along with 16 Filipinos by the Abu Sayyaf, which allegedly has links with exiled...The United States has classified the Abu Sayyaf as a foreign terrorist group. Lieutenant...

Two Abu Sayyaf Couriers Caught, as Military Closes In

Xinhua News Agency;  July 12, 2001 ;     379 words ......authorities have arrested two couriers of the Abu Sayyaf kidnap-for-ransom group holding 21 American...one of the arrested was the wife of an Abu Sayyaf leader, whom he did not identify, adding...30-minute boat ride from Basilan island where Abu Sayyaf gunmen were holding the ...

Abu Sayyaf? Just thugs

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  February 11, 2002 ;     598 words ...Abu Sayyaf? Just thugs By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Monday...here to the jungles of Basilan, home to the Abu Sayyaf movement that we're supposed to destroy, discovers pretty quickly that Abu Sayyaf isn't a militant Islamic terror group. It...

Another Abu Sayyaf leader falls in Basilan.(Main News)

Manila Bulletin;  July 16, 2001 ;     572 words ......third day of the massive crackdown on the Abu Sayyaf rebels, military and police troops yesterday...Basilan. The military identified the Abu Sayyaf leader arrested as Anwar Abdul Jamid...on his head, Jamid is one of the 200 Abu Sayyaf leaders in the military's order of battle...

Arroyo accuses Abu Sayyaf of violating woman hostages; Defends Balikatan...

Manila Bulletin;  March 8, 2002 ;     700+ words ......exercises as a means to wipe out the Abu Sayyaf and end their atrocities and exploitation...in Manila, the President accused the Abu Sayyaf terrorists of raping and physically abusing...Armed Forces of the Philippines crush the Abu Sayyaf will help end the terrorists' exploitation...