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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787186503321

Autore

East Bob

Titolo

Terror truncated : the decline of the Abu Sayyaf group from the crucial year 2002 / / Bob East

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-4438-6669-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (125 p.)

Disciplina

959.9048

Soggetti

Philippines Politics and government 1986-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE - THE ABU SAYYAF 1990-2002; CHAPTER TWO - 2002; CHAPTER THREE - 2003; CHAPTER FOUR - 2004; CHAPTER FIVE - 2005-2006; CHAPTER SIX - 2007; CHAPTER SEVEN - 2008-2009; CHAPTER EIGHT - 2010; CHAPTER NINE - 2011-2012; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

The task of researching the material for this book proved more arduous than originally anticipated. The Abu Sayyaf Group was generally misunderstood in their formation, goals, ideology - if any - and structure. Consequently, it became necessary to chronologically trace all the crimes attributed to the group as well as research the lives and deeds of the leaders and majordomos in the group. This at times became a task of trying to distinguish what was fact from what was myth. The main source ...