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| Five things to know about the Abu Sayyaf Group |
| 2016-09-05 |
| [GMANETWORK] Some Philippine officials on Saturday said the Abu Sayyaf ...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder... Group (ASG), the Islamic Lion of Islam group notorious for kidnapping both Filipinos and foreigners, was allegedly responsible for a deadly night market bombing in Davao City that killed at least 14 people. Interior and Local Government Secretary Ismael Sueno on Saturday alerted "all concerned units to be on the lookout for possible diversionary tactics to be carried out" by the ASG after the group allegedly grabbed credit for the attack in Davao City, hometown of President Rodrigo Duterte. However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), also on Saturday, declined to confirm that the ASG was responsible for the kaboom in Davao City. "That act of owning the kaboom is something we expect the ASG to claim," AFP public affairs office chief, Marine Col. Edgard Arevalo, said in a statement. |
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