| The headline sez he was bumped off, the text sez he was nabbed. Maybe they nabbed him and then bumped him off? |
JOINT military-police operatives raided last Monday the hideout of a notorious Abu Sayyaf bandit in Isabela, Basilan province and arrested a suspect who was implicated in the 2001 mass kidnapping of 19 vacation-goers, including foreigners at the posh Dos Palmas resort in Palawan. Southcom spokesman Colonel Domingo Tutaan revealed to Sun.Star Zamboanga the identity of the Abu Sayyaf suspect as Ysmael Jakur, a native of the island province. Tutaan said Jakur had a standing warrant of arrest issued by the Basilan Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 2, under Judge Danilo Bucoy for kidnapping and serious illegal detention in connection with the Dos Palmas kidnapping that included among its victims the three Americans, namely, Christian missionary couple Martin and Gracia Burnham and countryman Guillermo Sobrero. Tutaan said Jakur had been under surveillance by the operatives in the island under 103rd Army Brigade commander Colonel Raymundo Ferrer. Tutaan said the suspect was already turned over to the Philippine National Police (PNP) authorities in Basilan. "He was linked in the 2001 Dos Palmas kidnapping perpetrated by the ASG. He was arrested at 9:30 a.m., last Monday, on the strength of an existing warrant of arrest issued by the Basilan court under Criminal Case No. 3537-1129," Tutaan disclosed. Jakur's arrest came following the fall into the military hands of another notorious Abu Sayyaf bandit identified as Ustadz Namier Jamir, in Jolo, Sulu, last Saturday.
Jamir, who reportedly ranked No. 9 in the Abu Sayyaf hierarchy, was involved in several past kidnappings and other crimes in the region. He was said to be among the original founders of the ASG, along with its first leader Abdurajak Janjalani, who was killed in the l998 shootout with the police forces in Maluso, Basilan. Janjalani's younger brother, Khadaffy, took over the overall leadership, following the older Janjalani's demise, and has strengthened their ties with the Al-Qaeda Network in recent years. Jakur could be among those sentenced in absentia by the Basilan court after they were prosecuted for their involvement in past kidnappings in the region late in 2004, a DOJ source told Sun.Star Zamboanga Tuesday. Among the 19 sentenced to death & life imprisonment by the court in the island, at-least five remain at-large and are the subject of a continuous police-military manhunt.
| I checked some other Philippine news outlets and they say he's been jugged. Currently undergoing "tactical interrogation". |