 Assisted by Abu Sabaya in Basilan and Commander Robot in Sulu, both of whom are Tausug, Khadaffy soon revived the group - this time receiving hefty funding from international terror networks Al Qaeda and Jemaah Islamiyah.They then engineered a series of arguably successful kidnap-for-ransom operations which reached its fever point in 2000 and 2001, when high-profile hostages from Malaysia's resort island of Sipadan and then tourists from a Palawan resort were kidnapped and brought to Basilan and Sulu.This episode saw the killing of American Muslim Jeffrey Schilling and Christian Missionary Martin Burnham.