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| Abu Sayyaf leader arrested in hospital |
| 2016-12-29 |
| [GULFTODAY.AE] A leader of the Al Qaeda-linked 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... terror group linked to the abduction of three foreigners in 2015 two of whom they had later beheaded was incarcerated Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! in a private hospital in Zamboanga City in restive Mindanao. Major Filemon Tan, the front man of the military’s Western Mindanao Command, identified the suspect as Hairulla Asbang alias Ahadi, who was arrested inside a hospital where he was confined for wounds he sustained in an encounter with government forces on the neighboring island province of Sulu. Tan said a team of soldiers and coppers also arrested a cohort of Asbang who was with him inside the hospital. The team, he said, was armed with arrest warrants issued by the regional courts where Asbang was indicted for murder which is non-bailable and carries the maximum penalty of life imprisonment. According to Tan, Asbang is wanted for the abduction of three foreigners - two Canadians and a Norwegian businessman - and their Filipina companion who were kidnapped while holidaying in a posh island resort in Mindanao in October 2015. |
| Posted by:Fred |