Abu Sayyaf

A joint operation of the Marines, Navy and the Philippine National Police led to the capture of a suspected member of the Abu Sayyaf Group tagged in kidnapping incidents in Basilan province.  

COMBINED intelligence operatives from the military and police have captured Friday an alleged Abu Sayyaf bandit in Isabela City, the capital of nearby Basilan province.  

Manila * A close aide of senior Al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf leaders has been arrested in a southern Philippine city, a navy spokesman said yesterday.  

Sunday, August 17, 2008 Abu Sayyaf bandits gun down 2 Marines MANILA -- Two Marines were killed in an ambush by suspected al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf bandits Saturday morning, a military spokesman said.  

Al-Qaida-linked militants killed two Philippine marines in an ambush Saturday on a southern Philippine island, a military spokesman said.  

" Police and military agents captured an alleged member of the al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf group in the southern Philippine island of Basilan, several nautical miles off Zamboanga City, officials said on ...  

One respects the media, the other takes them hostage. MILF rebels are also farmers.  

THE police have arrested a man believed to be an Abu Sayyaf bandit at a local port in Zamboanga City, a police official said Saturday.  

JOLO - Islamic militants linked to the Al-Qaeda network abducted two women who were selling cosmetics on the southern Philippine island of Jolo, police and government officials said on Friday.  

Paying ransom to radical Islamic groups such as the Abu Sayyaf, which survives largely due to funds from kidnappings and other acts of banditry, should be declared a crime to cut off a key terrorist lifeline, a ...  

" Police forces arrested an alleged Abu Sayyaf militant in the southern Philippine port city of Zamboanga, which was bombed in the past by the terrorist group tied to Al-Qaeda and Jemaah Islamiya, reports said ...  

Members of the Marines' Joint Task Force Comet on Thursday raided and seized a marijuana plantation in Sulu, believed to be a source of funding for the terror group Abu Sayyaf, military officials announced ...  

By QUEENIE CASIMIRO ABS-CBN Zamboanga The Marines foiled a supposed attack by the Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf bandit group at a school in Tipo-Tipo, Basilan, Tuesday noon.  

Previously, in January 2007, President Arroyo indicated-in more flowery terms-that the bandit group's end was at hand stating: ''This government is determined to finish the job with a hand of steel against ...  

By LEILA D. VICENTE ABS-CBN Zamboanga ZAMBOANGA CITY - A police counter-terrorist team and elements of the Special Action Force arrested a suspected member of the bandit group Abu Sayyaf who has a ...