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Basilan

Island group and province in the Philippines, comprising the island of Basilan and about 50 others; area 1,372 sq km/530 sq mi; population (1995) 296,000. The capital is Isabela. Basilan Island is the largest of the Sulu Archipelago, separated from Zamboanga City, on Mindanao Island, by the Basilan Strait. The island is mountainous and products include rubber (the main crop), timber, coconuts, rice, coffee, cocoa, pepper, abaca (hemp), and corn; there is also some copper mining. Fishing and cattle raising are major occupations of the inhabitants.

The Yakan, an ethnic Muslim people noted for their weaving, make up one-third of the population of Basilan Island.



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In 2001, Basilan Island, a remote island in the southern Philippines, was home to hundreds of members of the violent Abu Sayyaf Group, or ASG, and Jemaah Islamiyah, or JI, two terrorist elements with links to al-Qaeda.
Defeating the idea: unconventional warfare in the southern Philippines by Eckert, William / Special Warfare
After early-morning Mass in Zamboanga City and a quick boat ride across the Basilan Straits, Claretian Father Angel Calvo and I have made our way past the capital of Basilan Island, Isabela, up the mountains, past coconut and rubber plantations, to the town of Lamitan.
I believe in miracles by Scherer-Emunds, Meinrad / U.S. Catholic
Last year's "Balikatan 02-1" represented a special counterterrorism-focused exercise on Basilan, at the request of the government of the Philippines.
U.S. interests and policy priorities in Southeast Asia by Daley, Matthew P. / DISAM Journal
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