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2020-11-07 Southeast Asia
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Abu Sayyaf Leader in Basilan Killed, Philippine Military Says
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[BenarNews] A senior 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...
bully boy suspected of planning a 2018 suicide kaboom on 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...
Island in the southern Philippines was killed in a firefight with government forces last month, the military belatedly confirmed Friday.
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Officials disclosed the news of Furuji Indama’s death a day after a suspected bully boy, identified as Botak Kerok and who was believed to be his close aide, was killed during a firefight in Ungkaya Pukan, a remote town on Basilan.
"Furuji Indama was killed on September 9 by the tracking forces following their initial encounter," a few days earlier, Lt. Gen. Corleto Vinluan, commander of the Philippine military’s Western Mindanao Command (Westmincom), told BenarNews.
Furuji Indama took over command of the Basilan unit of the Abu Sayyaf Group, a pro-Islamic State
 ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
organization, in 2017.
He succeeded Isnilon Hapilon, an ASG commander who then also headed the Philippine branch of IS, and who led hundreds of fighters from Southeast Asia and the Middle East in sacking the southern Philippine city of Marawi in May of that year. Hapilon was killed toward the end of a five-month battle there with government forces
Vinluan said Indama’s body was not recovered after the shootout "but ground intelligence reports were very consistent that Indama was killed."
"Some of his personal belongings that were recovered during the encounter have been turned over to his relatives, who also confirmed that he was killed," Vinluan said.
However,
today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday...
the regional military commander did not say why the Philippine armed forces disclosed the news only on Friday, or more than a month after the encounter that took Indama’s life.
Indama was among 18 Abu Sayyaf members who were charged for a suicide kaboom on Basilan in July 2018, when the driver of a van packed with explosives rammed it through a security checkpoint, killing himself and 10 other people. Three Abu Sayyaf men involved in the attack were arrested, but Indama escaped to Basilan’s jungle-clad interior.
In early September, troops from the 44th Infantry Battalion fought Indama’s group in a gunbattle as the snuffies were plotting to launch a kidnapping raid across a channel in the nearby Zamboanga Peninsula, officials said.
Indama was among five Abu Sayyaf snuffies killed in that clash, but his identity was only recently confirmed and verified by a military intelligence unit, according to Vinluan.
Vinluan said troops intercepted Kerok and two other Abu Sayyaf members on Thursday as they were riding together on a cycle of violence, armed with an M60 machine gun. A shootout broke out that lasted five minutes, during which Kerok was fatally maimed.
"The neutralized personality was onboard a cycle of violence along with two of his comrades when they were intercepted by the operating troops of the 101st Infantry Brigade and the 18th Infantry Battalion, and the firefight ensued," Vinluan said.
"The troops recovered the dead body of Botak [Kerok], one M60 machine gun, and one cycle of violence at the clash site," he said.
As of Friday, however, the whereabouts of the two other Abu Sayyaf suspects were unknown.
"Our operating troops continue to scour the area to arrest the companions of Bero," said Col. Domingo Gobway, the commander of Joint Task Force Basilan, according to a report by the state-run Philippine News Agency. 
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