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A Strike Against Abu Sayyaf

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Feb 20, 2014
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Najar Hajad is known by the nom de guerre Marlboro, the head of a Sulu Archipelago village militia that clashed with radical Abu Sayyaf rebels in what has become major news – a local rebellion against what is increasingly regarded as a criminal enterprise rather than an ethnic or religious movement.

In the past it was unthinkable for local men to fight t…

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