[BenarNews] Two brothers of an 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...
commander were apparently killed Friday along with another krazed killer during festivities in Sulu province in the far southern Philippines, ground commanders said.
The siblings were nephews of Hatib Hajan Sawadjaan, the presumed late leader of the Islamic State