The government says Abu Sayyaf uses terrorism primarily for profit and kidnap-for-ransom is among the group’s “favoured tactics.”• Email: dquan@postmedia.com | Twitter: dougquan Public Safety Canada listed Abu Sayyaf as a terrorist group in 2003. Fellow hostage Kjartan Sekkingstad of Norway said the trio would be executed on June 13 if an “agreement” was not reached with their captors, who belong to the Abu Sayyaf militant group. A spokeswoman for Global Affairs Canada in Ottawa said Monday the government was aware of the video. “It appears my government has abandoned me and my family in this endeavour,” Hall, who is seated on the ground with his fellow hostages, says in the latest video released on Sunday.

Source: National Post May 23, 2016 16:26 UTC