The U.S. embassy in Malaysia issued a warning on its website Friday saying that tourists should watch out for kidnappers, pirates and generally bad people in the resort area of Sabah.
All four Americans who could point Malaysia out on a map or even knew the U.S. embassy in Malaysia had a website are taking the warning seriously.
“There are indications that both criminal and terrorist groups are planning or intend acts of violence against foreigners in eastern Sabah,” the warning states.
The bad guys come from the Phillipines are run by the name Abu Sayyaf Group, which sounds more like an investment firm than a group radical Muslims chanting Death to Americans. (Abu Sayyaf in Arabic means “bearer of the sword.)
The embassy says that some of the most dangerous areas are near some of the resorts in Eastern Sabah, including Semporna and the islands of Mabul and Sipadan. The resorts themselves are likely safer but getting to and from them seems to invite trouble, the warning stated.
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