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Jemaah Islamiyah training Moro militants
The Philippine military now has evidence indicating that the terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah has been training members of the local Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, a breakaway group of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.Brig. Gen. Edmund Pangilinan said troops gathered the evidence from the location in Maguindanao where they clashed with BIFF members last Thursday and captured four militants. The four militants were captured as the military also nabbed Khair Mundos, a leader and key financier of the Abu Sayyaf group, who carries a bounty of $500,000. The group was apparently in the company of Abdul Basit Usman, a JI-trained Abu Sayyaf member, for whom the US government has offered a bounty of $1 million. Pangilinan said two of militants captured last Thursday were women who appeared to be Usaman's wives while the remaining two men were apparently close associates. He said the recovered evidence bolstered claims that Usman had been training BIFF members in bomb-making and the series of bombing incidents in Central Mindanao over the past few months was part of JI-BIFF operations. Posted by: ryuge 2014-06-13 |
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