noun
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
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In 2001 Abu Sayyaf kidnapped twenty people and beheaded one of the American captives
• Syn: ↑Bearer of the Sword
• Topics: ↑terrorism, ↑act of terrorism, ↑terrorist act
• Regions: ↑Philippines, ↑Republic of the Philippines
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑terrorist organization, ↑terrorist group, ↑foreign terrorist organization, ↑FTO
Useful english dictionary. 2012.