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Janjalani still in MILF territory
ABU Sayyaf leader Khadaffy Janjalani is still in Central Mindanao, hiding in areas protected by a ceasefire between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), Armed Forces Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Efren Abu said Monday. "He (Janjalani) is hiding in MILF territory. That is what I am trying to say," Abu said, as he denied reports that the elusive chieftain of the Al Qaeda-linked group escaped to Malaysia. "The MILF does not allow him to go there but he's there because he knows the military can't just go there," Abu said at a forum hosted by the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines. Abu said the MILF, in the process of resuming peace talks with the government, is "cooperating" with the military to capture Janjalani. He said the MILF allowed the military to conduct air raids in its territories in late November to flush out the Abu Sayyaf leader. Last week, Tawi-Tawi Governor Sadikul Sahali claimed to have received information that Janjalani and some 20 of his men had escaped to Mardanas and Mamanok Islands in Malaysia from Sibutu town in Tawi-Tawi.Posted by: Dan Darling 2004-12-06 |
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