[UPI] Twenty members 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... Death Eater group surrendered to the Philippines, the military announced.
An assortment of firearms, including two homemade shotguns, were confiscated as the Islamist Death Eaters, aligned with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... and involved in bombings, kidnappings and attacks since 1991, surrendered Thursday in Sumisip on the island province of Basilan ...Basilan is a rugged, jungle-covered island in the southern Philippines. It is a known stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf, bandidos, and maybe even orcs. Most people with any sense travel with armed escorts... "This is the result of the relentless operation we are conducting where they suffered lots of casualties," said Col. Thomas Donato Jr. of the Philippine army's 104th Brigade. "We are very open for surrenderees. We want to end this war in peace and pave the way for development in Basilan."
The Philippine military overran several Abu Sayyaf strongholds in the southern Philippines in recent weeks, and local authorities believe other Abu Sayyaf members are ready to surrender, CNN reported Friday.
"It's time to end this terrorist problem in our country. We want to make Basilan a peaceful place to live so that development will prosper. We are closely working with the [military] to decimate all these terrorist groups," Sumisip Mayor Gulam Boy Hattaman said.
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My wife's friends were forced from peaceful Basilan by Muslim rebels more than forty years ago. Since then the island has become a hellhole. The Philippine military has cleared the island on occasion, but then it has allowed the Islamists to return from nearby islands. If the military is serious, this time they will set up a base on the island and stay there.
[Straits Times] Malaysia is on high alert for Abu Sayyaf militants fleeing among hundreds of Filipinos to Sabah, after the Philippine military's offensive in the country. Officials say an estimated 400 are waiting for the "right time" to breach the Eastern Sabah Security Command's security cordon.
Federal police special branch director Datuk Seri Mohamad Fuzi Harun said, "The threat is imminent...There is only one direction that they are heading, and it is towards our shores. We will not allow them to enter. Our security forces will arrest them the minute they pass the country's maritime border."
Malaysia has deployed more manpower and assets to protect the vast maritime border it shares with the Philippines.
General Tan Sri Zulkifeli Mohd Zin said reports that hundreds of Filipinos seeking refuge on islands close to the Malaysian border were credible. He said, ""They are waiting to cross into Sabah and assimilate with their relatives and friends, who stand ready to harbor them."
It is thought that as many as 400 of them, including insurgents, are on the islands of Taganak and Bakkungan, hoping to make their way to Sandakan, the second largest town in Sabah. Police picked up 37 Filipinos from the waters off Sandakan last week. 18 of them were from Basilan, while the rest were from Abu Sayyaf stronghold Jolo.
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[The Nation] Three policemen were killed and two other officers seriously injured in a roadside bomb attack in Yala province yesterday morning. Police believe that a group of militants, led by Hubaideela Rommeulee, was behind the attack.
The attack happened as seven policemen were traveling aboard two pickup trucks on a road in Krong Pinang district. They were gathering intelligence in the area about militants as well as a drug-trafficking ring. Police said the home-made bomb hit one truck directly, hurling it into the air and breaking it apart.
Following the blast, a group of at least seven rebels opened fire at the two police officers in the other truck as other militants stole three M16 rifles and three pistols from the murdered officers before fleeing.
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