Philippines militants raise funds on YouTube: police

Al-Qaeda-linked extremists under military siege in the Philippines have obtained fresh...

Al-Qaeda-linked extremists under military siege in the Philippines have obtained fresh funding through the popular video-sharing website YouTube, police said on Monday.

But they said they had so far prevented the Abu Sayyaf group, responsible for some of the worst terror attacks in the Philippines, from using the funds to launch fresh bombing attacks in the country.

The government’s National Intelligence Coordinating Agency has obtained “significant reports of new money received by the Abu Sayyaf’s financial network” on the southern island of Mindanao,” police spokesman Chief Superintendent Samuel Pagdilao said in a statement.

“The money arrived after the (group) uploaded on the Internet the video of the late Janjalani brothers (Abdurajak Janjalani and Khadaffy Janjalani, both slain in police and military operations) seeking material and financial support,” Pagdilao added.

The source of the funding was undisclosed.

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