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unusual facts about Abu Sayyaf


Radullan Sahiron

Radullan Sahiron is a Filipino Islamist terrorist associated with the Abu Sayyaf group.


Abdul Rasul Sayyaf

During the post-war period, Sayyaf retained his training camps, using them for militarily training and indoctrinating new recruits to fight in Islamic-backed conflicts such as Chechnya, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in the Southern Philippines, where his name inspired the Abu Sayyaf group.

Christopher Voss

He worked cases which included the Jill Carroll case in Iraq, the Steve Centanni case in the Gaza Strip, the Burnham-Sobero Abu Sayyaf case in the Philippines, and the Gonsalves-Howes-Stansell kidnapping in Colombia which culminated in the July 2008 rescue by Colombian forces.

Jessie Dellosa

He was also the Group Commander of the Special Operation Task Group “Sulu” instrumental in the neutralization of Abu Sayyaf leader Abu Solaiman and the release of the Burnham couple in 2007.

Moro insurgency in the Philippines

There was a crossfire between the Army and the Abu Sayyaf rebels in Lamitan following the takeover of Dr. Jose Torres Memorial Hospital which resulted in the deaths of 12 soldiers, including the army captain.

Noel Abrigo Coballes

In 1995 he led four different groups of Task Group Panthers in Basilan which liquidated numerous of Abu Sayyaf's terrorists which were accused of kidnaping of civilians.


see also

Pek

Khadaffy Janjalani, also known as Daf or Pek, the nominal leader of the Filipino terrorist group Abu Sayyaf and the leader of one of its factions