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started early this morning in Indanan with residents of Buansa community in said Sulu town avoid getting hit by the ongoing firefight between government troops and the Abu Sayyaf Group ASG Abu Sayyaf Group Commander Al Bader Parad once again leads an encounter along with colleagues Gumbahali Jumdail or Dr Abu and Umbra Jumdail in a clash Sunday with government troops in Indanan

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Abu Sayyaf The Abu Sayyaf Group Arabic Jam ah Ab Sayy f ASG also known as al Harakat al Islamiyya is one of several militant

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2002 Abu Sayyaf Group ASG 660

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hostages just to flee from attacks It shows how poorly government handled this international concern considering that it has all the resources and all the personnel to avert such a disaster Yet it is most distressing even appalling that the ASG has resorted to this killing This act is most violative of the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad PBUH and the Noble Qu ran Innocents

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and extortion for profit a close association between the two is unlikely The 2002 edition of the U S State Department s Patterns of Global Terrorism does not mention any ties to Al Qaeda Though Janjalani s first recruits were dissidents from the Moro National Liberation Front MNLF radical Islamic groups in the Philippines such as the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation

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UPDATE Red Cross worker Vagni arrives in Manila manila italian Red Cross worker Eugenio Vagni who was released by the Abu Sayyaf Group ASG in Maimbung Sulu after holding him captive for nearly six months arrived Sunday morning here

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fighters make up the core group but at least 1000 individuals motivated by the prospect of receiving ransom payments for foreign hostages allegedly joined the group in 2000a 2001 A Missionaries Martin and Gracia Burnham with their Abu Sayyaf captors The ASG was founded in Basilan Province and mainly operates there and in the neighboring provinces of Sulu and Tawi Tawi

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through Libya In May 2000 Khaddafi Janjalani led a speedboat raid some 300 miles across the Sulu Sea to kidnap 20 tourists from a Palawan island resort including three Americans see below In October 2001 the U S sent military observers to Mindanao to assess the ASG In November President Bush extended $93 million in military aid to President Arroyo and offered direct

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or political reasons The Bush Administration reportedly facilitated a $300 million ransom payment to ASG from the Burnham family The couple was not released after the payment was made Areas of Operation ASG is based in the southern Philippine islands of Mindanao and the Sulu island group and conducts most of its activities there In 2000 the group abducted tourists and