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| Philippines monitoring jihadis before APEC summit |
| 2015-11-18 |
| [Inquirer] Philippine security forces in western Mindanao said they were closely monitoring the movement of four foreign jihadis as world leaders began gathering in Manila for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. City police director Angelito Casimiro said Dr. Mahmud Ahmad, Muammar Ghadafi, Like Elvis, Gaddafi isn't dead? Mohammad Najib Husen and Muhammad Joraimee Awang Raimee had been sighted in Abu Sayyaf camps in Basilan and had recently tried to travel to Turkey via Manila. But he said the four, all of them Malaysians, canceled their planned trip for reasons not yet known. Casimiro said they have been teaching the Abu Sayyaf bomb-making techniques. He said Ahmad, a surgeon previously connected with the University Malaysia and his three associates, were now working for the Daesh. The four arrived in the Philippines in May 2014 and have been moving around Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi, and are currently in Basilan, Casimiro said. Col. Arthur Biyo said such special units as antihostage-taking and airport security personnel had been dispatched from Mindanao to help secure APEC delegates in Manila and in Visayas. |
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