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Six killed in Philippine ambush
 [Bangla Daily Star] Gunmen suspected to be Islamic hard boyz ambushed a convoy carrying farm workers in the southern Philippines yesterday, killing six and wounding 22 others, the army said.The four-vehicle convoy, which also carried armed security escorts from a government militia, was on its way to a remote rubber plantation when it was attacked, Army front man Major Harold Cabunoc said. No group grabbed credit for the attack on Basilan island, although local police and the farm cooperative's manager said they suspected the Al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf ...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder... group. Basilan is a rugged, jungle-clad island in the southern Philippines. It is a known stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf and farm workers commonly travel with armed escorts. The Abu Sayyaf is a small Islamic beturbanned goon movement that has been blamed for most of the country's worst terror attacks as well as the kidnapping of foreigners. Posted by: Fred 2012-07-12 |
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