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100 1 _aABUZA Zachary
245 _aBalik terrorism:
_bthe return of the Abu Sayyaf
260 _aCarlisle PA, USA:
_bStrategic Studies Institute, US Army War College,
_c2005
300 _a58p.
520 _aDetailed 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.
650 _aABU SAYYAF GROUP
650 _aMORO ISLAMIC LIBERATION FRONT
650 _aJEMAAH ISLAMIYAH
650 _aPHILIPPINES
_xTERRORISM
690 _aTerrorism
945 _i19068-1001
_rY
_sY
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_d5080