Talk:Abu Sayyaf/Archives/2016/January

citation 18
made up citation here, nothing on that page talks about the origin of their name. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.56.10.188 (talk) 15:54, 2 December 2015 (UTC)

here's a better citation https://web.archive.org/web/20151202155621/https://www.americansecurityproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Abu-Sayyaf-The-Father-of-the-Swordsman.pdf

The MCFF was known as Janjalani’s group in Mindanao, and this name would later evolve into what we know today as the Abu Zamboanga Moros, 1911 4 American security project Sayyaf Group. This was due to the fact that while in Afghanistan fighting the Soviets, Janjalani developed the nickname of Abu Sayyaf “in honor of the Afghan resistance leader Professor Abdul Rasul Sayyaf” 15. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.56.10.188 (talk) 15:57, 2 December 2015 (UTC)