Abu Sayyaf is a TERRORIST GROUP NOT A PERSON. This story is most-likely BS, invented in an attempt to boost 0bama’s ratings with regards to whose side he is on in the WOT. His ‘Christian mask’ has slipped badly so they decided to shift it back onto his black Muslim face.
Before they were an AQ spinoff in the Philippines, Abu Sayyaf was a hero of the Afghan mujahadeen. That’s where the name comes from.
But I’m not buying this story either. Another *leader* who nobody had ever heard of before the headlines this morning. Along the same lines as the “Khorasan Group” BS.