abu sayyaf

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abu sayyaf - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Abu Sayyaf
      n 1: 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; "In 2001 Abu Sayyaf kidnapped twenty people and
           beheaded one of the American captives" [syn: Abu Sayyaf,
           Bearer of the Sword]