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Yasser Igasan isbelieved to be the new head of the Abu Sayyaf Group. Igasan has had “terror training abroad and… connections with possible foreign financiers.” Four Abu Sayyaf were killed in fighting as the US and Philippine troops wrap up exercises.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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