For those of you that don't know about Abu Sayyaf.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Sayyaf
Abu Sayyaf is a militant Islamist separatist group based in and around the southern islands
of the Philippines, in Jolo, Basilan, and Mindanao.
Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, assassinations,
kidnappings, and extortion in their fight for an independent Islamic state in western Mindanao
and the Sulu Archipelago with a claimed goal of creating a of a pan-Islamic superstate across
southeast Asia, spanning from east to west, the island of Mindanao, the Sulu Archipelago,
the island of Borneo (Malaysia, Indonesia), the South China Sea, and the Malay Peninsula
(Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand and Myanmar).