Word: sabaya
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...negotiation and ordered 5,000 troops into the scattered Sulu archipelago to, in the words of operational commander Brigadier General Romeo Dominguez, "rescue and destroy." Unlike last year, the Abu Sayyaf has made no attempt to pretend the kidnappings are for any higher ideal than money. Group spokesman Abu Sabaya has talked before of the value of U.S. captives. "One American is worth 10 Europeans," he declared last year. But the only bounty being talked about is the $2 million Arroyo has put on the Abu Sayyaf leaders' heads...
...soldiers were killed and 14 wounded, while up to 12 guerrillas were left dead or injured. According to a source inside the group, the Abu Sayyaf held a meeting in mid- battle to decide whether they should start killing their captives. "Maybe we will stage an execution," Abu Sabaya told a local radio station via cell phone, adding: "Welcome to the party." As the skirmishes continued overnight with helicopter gunships backing the government troops, the guerrillas picked up reinforcements from among their 1,100 fighters in the Sulu archipelago. As the body count mounted?by Saturday evening, scores of soldiers...
...Tourism is not Arroyo's sole concern. The off-and-on Muslim rebellion in the southern Philippines, which dates back to the 1970s, is threatening to graduate from domestic inconvenience to international threat. Many Philippine Muslim leaders, like Abu Sabaya, were schooled and trained in Islamist strongholds such as Libya and maintain links with insurgents across the Middle East and South Asia. Asiri Abubakar of the University of the Philippines' Asian studies department says the south could become the "regional base of operations" for Asian Muslim terror groups. "If the Philippines does not watch out," he warns, "the southern Philippines...
...recently converted to Islam, had decided earlier this year to take his first trip abroad. He had befriended Filipino Muslims living in the Bay Area, and had headed for Zamboanga. There he met and quickly married a local lass, who happened to be related to Abu Sayyaf spokesman Abu Sabaya, who allegedly invited the couple to visit one of his organization's camps. But family ties didn't do much for Schilling - soon after his arrival, the group accused him of working for the CIA and warned that he would be beheaded unless the U.S. releases World Trade Center bomber...