Original sentence: Gaddafi applauded the murder and remarked that it was a "punishment".He presented it as an act of goodwill to Western countries; nevertheless the money helped the group to expand its operation.In 1981 Gaddafi was found talking about assassinating new American President Ronald Reagan.In 2002, Gaddafi paid a ransom reportedly worth tens of millions of dollars to Abu Sayyaf, a Filipino Islamist militancy, to release a number of kidnapped tourists.In the Philippines, Libya backed the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, which continues to carry out acts of violence in an effort to establish a separatist Islamic state in the southern Philippines
Edited sentence: Gaddafi applauded the murder and remarked that it was a punishment.He presented it as an act of goodwill to Western countries; nevertheless the money helped the terrorist group to expand its operation.In 1981 Gaddafi was found talking about assassinating new American president Ronald Reagan.In 2002, he paid a ransom reportedly worth tens of millions of dollars to Abu Sayyaf to release a number of kidnapped tourists.In the Philippines, Libya has backed the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, which continues to terrorize and murder people in the name of establishing a separatist Islamic state in the southern Philippines