Militants get more funding

Abu Sayyaf militants received funds from an unidentified donor after posting an Internet video of the group's founders appealing for money, the Philippines' main intelligence agency said, according to a document seen yesterday.

The Al-Qaida-linked group may use the money to finance attacks, and the discovery led intelligence officials to recommend maintaining a high-level alert for October in the southern Mindanao region, said the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency or NICA.

(China Daily 10/15/2007 page9)