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a founding member of 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...
...a small group of Islamic bandidos that has been blamed for most of the country's worst terror attacks, kidnapping foreigners, and chopping people's heads off. They are allied with Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiyah, or what's left of it...
group blamed for some of the worst terror attacks in the region, security officials said on Sunday.
Ustadz Ahmadsali Asmad Badron, also known as Ammad or Hamad Ustadz Idris, was tossed in the clink
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on Saturday in the remote Tawi-Tawi islands in the southern Philippines.
Police criminal investigation regional chief Edgar Danao said Badron was one of the original members of Abu Sayyaf, which was founded in the 1990s using seed money from al-Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden
... who used to be but now ain't...
"Badron was among the trusted members of (Abu Sayyaf) who made millions of pesos in ransom money collected from their operations," Danao said.
Along with one of his cousins Badron worked alongside Galib Andang, a notorious Abu Sayyaf leader well known as "Commander Robot".
The group carried out a daring cross-border raid on a Malaysian resort in April 2000 and kidnapped dozens of foreign tourists.
It gained Abu Sayyaf international notoriety even as the hostages were freed in batches after millions were paid following ransom negotiations brokered by Libya, officials said.
The group has also been blamed for the worst bad boy attacks in Philippine history including a ferry bombing in Manila in 2004 that killed more than 100 people.
Subsequent U.S.-backed operations against Abu Sayyaf led to the killing of key leaders, while many others including Andang were tossed in the clink
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, but he was later killed in a botched attempt to escape in 2005.
While on the run, Badron allegedly helped foreign forces of Evil from another regional terror group, the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), to hide in the southern Philippines.