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Abu Sayyaf member dies, cop wounded in shootout
[SUNSTAR.PH] A SUSPECTED member of the Abu Sayyaf
...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder...
Group (ASG) and listed as number three in the drugs watchlist was killed while a policeman was maimed in a shootout in an east coast village of Zamboanga City. Eight people, who were caught having pot session, were locked away
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
Chief Inspector Elmer Solon, Police Station 4 chief, said the shootout occurred around 5 p. m. Monday, April 10, in Bilang-Bilang Island in the village of Mercedes, east of the city.

Solon identified the slain suspect as Matiling Addusi, who has a standing warrant of arrest for murder. The police chief said that Addusi is a follower of Sulu-based Abu Sayyaf sub-leader Alhabsy Misaya and listed as the number three high value target drug personality in the city.

The maimed policeman was identified as Police Officer 3 Zaide Tutuan, who is assigned with the Police Station 4.

Solon said they were conducting security patrol along the shore of Bilang-Bilang Island when they chanced upon a group of people having a pot session in one of the houses. He said the suspects scampered to different directions but eight of them were arrested.

Arrested were the following: Sabirula Basarahi, 40; Marham Bumpasan, 19; Mohammad Tating, 40; Adzron Madda, 37; Hamja Salim, 28; Wadud Madda, 17; Abubakar Halis, 31; and, Madi Asmarin, 20.

Solon said a shootout ensued when Addusi, who run towards one of the houses, shot Tutuan while in pursuit of the suspected Abu Sayyaf member. He said Addusi was killed in the shootout.
Posted by: Fred 2017-04-12
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