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BU2tZjTC' alt='Counter Insurgency Targeting Program' title='Counter Insurgency Targeting Program' />Malayan Emergency Darurat Malaya Part of the decolonisation of Asia and the Cold War Australian Avro Lincoln bomber dropping 500lb bombs on. Counterterrorism also spelled counterterrorism incorporates the practice, military tactics, techniques, and strategy that government, military, law enforcement. The Abu Sayyaf Group ASG is an Islamist terrorist organization that seeks to establish an independent Islamic state in the southern Philippines. ASG is known for. ASGs brutal decapitations date back to 2. Qaeda in Iraq and that groups successor, ISIS. ASG is also known for its relationship with al Qaeda, which has become strained since the beginning of the U. S. led Global War on Terror. The group is divided into two main factions Radulan Sahiron, one of the United States most wanted terrorists, leads the ASG faction based in Sulu, while a pro ISIS faction was spearheaded by Basilan based ASG leader Isnilon Hapilon before Hapilons death in October 2. In the summer of 2. Hapilon and his followers pledged allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi. The pledge drew attention to ASGs presence in the southern Philippines and its potential threat to Southeast Asia. According to the Philippines Secretary of National Defense Delfin Lorenzana, ISIS made direct contact with Hapilon in December 2. Mindanao Afterward, Hapilon reportedly attempted to unite ISIS supporting groups throughout the Philippines under his leadership. In May 2. 01. 7, the Philippine military launched an operation to target Hapilon in the city of Marawi. The operation devolved into a five month long armed conflict that displaced over 3. ASG and ISIS linked militants laid siege to the city. The conflict ended shortly after Philippine troops killed Hapilon on October 1. ASG has received funding and training from al Qaeda and Jemaah Islamiyah JI. ASG continues to provide sanctuary to foreign militant jihadists, such as JI fugitives. The group also maintains links with other Philippines based extremist organizations, including the more militant factions of both the Moro National Liberation Front MNLF and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front MILF. ASG was founded by and named after Abdurajak Janjalani, who took the nom de guerre Abu Sayyaf, Father of Swordsmen. Janjalani previously participated in the MNLF, which, like ASG, sought to create an independent Islamic state in the Moro regions of Mindanao in the Philippines. However, unlike ASG, the MNLF was willing to negotiate with the Philippine government which it did, beginning in 1. Moro autonomy. The MNLF ultimately agreed to lay down its arms as part of a deal that led to the establishment of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao ARMM on August 1, 1. Unhappy with the outcome of the MNLFs deal with the Philippine government, Janjalani and other radicals formally split from the MNLF in 1. Harakat al Islamiyya the Islamic Movement, later known as ASG. ASG insurgents were not satisfied with the establishment of an autonomous Moro region. They refused to settle for anything less than an independent Islamic stateand believed their only path to achieving that goal was through violent jihad. In 1. 99. 8, Philippine forces launched a counterterrorism raid on Basilan Island, killing ASG founder Abdurajak Janjalani in the ensuing shoot out. After his death, ASG splintered into two factions one headed by Janjalanis brother, Khadaffy Janjalani, on Basilan Island, and a second, headed by Ghalib Andang, a. Commander Robot, in the Sulu Archipelago. During this period, ASG shifted its tactics from jihadist activities to terrorism conducted to meet the basic survival needs of the organization. Creating revenue through terrorism had been discussed internally among ASGs leadership beginning in 1. Mohammed Jamahl Khalifa, ASGs main conduit to funding from al Qaeda, was barred by the Philippine government from returning to the country. Andang advocated for the strategic use of kidnapping for ransom, believing that tactic would not only help bankroll ASG but raise the groups profile and distinguish it from the more mainstream and increasingly less violent Moro organizations, such as the MILF and the MNLF. The Philippines received significant counterterrorism support from the United States in the aftermath of the September 1. In 2. 00. 2, the two countries launched Operation Enduring FreedomPhilippines, which set back ASGs operations significantly. In March 2. 00. 5, the counterterrorism force assassinated Commander Robot and later killed other potential rivals, leaving Khadaffy Janjalani positioned to assert control over all of ASG. Khadaffy reoriented ASG toward committing ideologically motivated, large scale terrorist attacks and to the goal of his late brotherestablishing an Islamic state in the southern Philippines. Nonetheless, the groups membership declinedanother consequence of the Philippine U. S. crackdown. The groups numbers fell to 2. By 2. 01. 4, ASG membership was estimated at approximately 4. Khadaffy Janjalani died in a shootout with Philippine forces on September 4, 2. As after Janjalanis death, ASG splintered along clan lines into smaller alliances, and the group returned to less ambitious terror activities. As of 2. 01. 5, the group continues to rely on kidnapping for ransom operations for its members survival and as a monetary incentive for recruitment. However, ASG has also engaged in increasingly large scale terror plots that appear to be targeted toward the groups ideological objectives. Throughout its existence, ASG has engaged in terrorism and guerilla warfare, targeting Catholics and Westerners, as well as locals of the villages ASG has infiltrated. In many ways, ASG functions as an organized crime ring. Aside from pledging allegiance to ISIS in late July 2. One ASG analyst calls the group an entrepreneur of violence. On the other hand, ASG is considered a resilient extremist group, willing to exploit opportunities for violence whether motivated by financial gain or Islamist ideology. ASG is notorious for kidnapping and threatening to behead Western foreigners and holiday resort tourists. ASG began its jihadist activities independent of the MNLF, beginning in 1. Christian missionary ship, killing two foreign missionaries and wounding 4. In 2. 00. 1, ASG kidnapped 2. Americans and 1. 5 Filipinos, and later killed several of the hostages. The group usually releases hostages once ransoms have been paid, but have been known to release victims absent payments during periods of positive cash flow. In one of the groups most vicious displays of anti Western hatred, ASG beheaded American captive Guillermo Sobero in 2. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to celebrate the 1. Philippine independence from Spain. Doctrine ASG seeks to establish an independent Islamic state in western Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago, the predominately Muslim region in the south of the Philippines. ASG derives its ideology from the groups eponymous founder, Abdurajak Janjalani, a. Abu Sayyaf. In the early 1. Janjalani issued a public proclamationthe Four Basic Truthswhich came to define ASGs goals and ideology. The first truth emphasizes that ASG should serve as a bridge and balance between MNLF and MILF and should recognize the early leadership of both groups in the struggle for Moro liberation. Second, ASGs ultimate goal is to establish in Mindanao an Islamic government whose nature, meaning, emblem and objective are synonymous with peace.