1.0 link 61057 <![CDATA[Philippine Islamists Beg For Money On YouTube]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/08/20/philippine-islamists-beg-_n_61057.html Islamist insurgents in the Philippines linked to al-Qaida have sought to emulate other wildly successful internet fund-raising efforts with a video appeal for cash on YouTube.

Abu Sayyaf posted a nine-minute clip from an hour-long film titled "The Filipino Lions are Coming" on the video-sharing site a week ago.

The video features scenes from its jungle training camps and archived speeches by its founder, Abdul Raziq Janjalani, and his younger brother who succeeded him, Khaddafy Janjalani.

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