ABU SAYYAF as NOUN

  1. Meaning
    • a small gang of terrorist thugs claiming to seek a separate Islamic state for the Muslim minority in the Philippines
    • uses bombing and assassination and extortion and kidnapping
    Synonym(s) Usage Example(s)
    • In 2001 Abu Sayyaf kidnapped twenty people and beheaded one of the American
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