TY  - BOOK
AU  - ABUZA Zachary
TI  - Balik terrorism: the return of the Abu Sayyaf
SN  - 158487208X (pbk)
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Carlisle PA, USA
PB  - Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College
KW  - ABU SAYYAF GROUP
KW  - MORO ISLAMIC LIBERATION FRONT
KW  - JEMAAH ISLAMIYAH
KW  - PHILIPPINES
KW  - TERRORISM
N2  - Detailed study of why the Abu Sayyaf group (previously known primarily as a brutal kidnapping-for-profit gang) is emerging as a terrorist group with links to Jemaah Islamiyah and to some extent also with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). This may provide MILF with plausible deniability for terrorist acts, but it also complicates counterterrorism efforts, not least (according to the forward to this paper) because the Philippine government downplays the three way relationship between the different groups
ER  -