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| Southeast Asia |
| MILF Men Run After Killers of Senior Member |
| 2006-12-15 |
| The country’s largest Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), has said its forces were hunting down former guerrillas linked to the killing of a senior member in the southern Philippines. “Our forces are tracking down these former guerrillas who killed one of our commanders. They could mount attacks against civilian targets because they are extremely dangerous,” a rebel spokesman Eid Kabalu told Arab News. The hunt coincided with military reports on Wednesday linking rouge MILF members in a plot to bomb targets in the Davao City in the southern Philippines. The military said it may have foiled a terror attack after soldiers raided a rebel hideout late Monday and recovered pipe bombs near Tagum City. It said two rebels had escaped the raid, but troops were pursuing them in the area. Kabalu said MILF fighters were alerted about some former hardcore members who were behind the killing in late September of Bashir Takasan in Lupon town in Davao Oriental province. Takasan, he said, was a member of the MILF’s peace panel ad hoc joint action group. Kabalu did not say why Takasan was murdered, but claimed he was active in peace talks. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Voting with their The MILF sounds like a bunch of boobs, no pun intended... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2006-12-15 11:12 |