a small gang of terrorist thugs claiming to seek a separate Islamic state for the Muslim minority in the Philippines; uses bombing and assassination and extortion and kidnapping
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| Abu Sayyaf |
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| Bearer of the Sword |
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"In 2001 Abu Sayyaf kidnapped twenty people and beheaded one of the American captives"
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