Word: sayyaf
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...example, nato forces in Bosnia foiled a plot to attack U.S. and British targets there. Bensayah Belkacem, an Algerian thought to be at the center of a Bosnia-based terror group, had the number of Abu Zubaydah on a chit of paper in his apartment. On Oct. 28, Abu Sayyaf, a terrorist group in the Philippines that authorities believe has been supported in the past by al-Qaeda, bombed a food market, killing six people. And the Ugandan government announced that it had detained eight men on suspicion of belonging to al-Qaeda. How did one organization with an extremist...
...Uzbek faction rejects the group's new military commander, General Mohammed Fahim, successor to the charismatic Ahmed Shah Massoud, who was assassinated Sept. 9. The Uzbeks do support a loya jirga, as do some other commanders, like Yousnou Kanuni from the Jamiat faction. But others, like Abdul Rasul Sayyaf of the Ittehad-i-Islami, don't. The alliance's titular foreign minister, Abdullah Abdullah, complains that with the loya jirga, the U.S. is attempting to put a 19th century template on 21st century Afghanistan...
...Philippines with local insurgents who had fought in Afghanistan and were now putting their skills to work fighting for an Islamic state in the southern islands of the Philippines. Yousef had even planned attacks on U.S. airliners there, and the Filipino jihad vets who formed the Abu Sayyaf guerrilla group never forgot their old comrade - one of their prime demands when they kidnapped a group of Western tourists last year was for the release of Ramzi Yousef...
...Sayyaf in the Philippines pose no threat to the stability of the government in Manila, and their kidnapping and banditry makes them unpopular even in the mostly Muslim southern islands. Still, the fact that the government of President Gloria Arroyo moved quickly to deny that the U.S. would play any direct military role in the Philippines underlined her caution over being too closely identified with...
...support," she vowed, promising whatever is asked, including troops. Like Megawati, Arroyo risks being labeled a lackey for America by political enemies. Of more worry, the Philippines carries a reputation as a terrorist and money-laundering locale. A bin Laden brother-in-law helped set up Abu Sayyaf, the gratuitously violent separatist group from the southern island of Mindanao. To date, Abu Sayyaf has outfought, outsmarted and, on occasion, paid off Philippine law enforcement. It is well funded, well armed and, observers fear, primed for regional expansion. A Philippine problem is now a world problem, and Arroyo is hoping...