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| Radulan Sahiron appointed Abu leader after Janjalani's death |
| 2006-12-28 |
| A military official said Thursday that Radulan Sahiron was appointed leader of the terrorist Abu Sayyaf Group after the alleged death of its spiritual leader Khadaffy Janjalani. Rot, Daffy, rot! Brig. Gen. Juancho Sabban, 3rd Marine Brigade commander, said that based on intelligence information, ASG sub-commanders immediately held a meeting and declared Sahiron as their new leader after Janjalani died last September. He added that with Sahiron as leader, ASG stands to lose its ties with international terror groups, particularly Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network. "Your Enormity! Daffy Janjalani is dead and Radulan Sahiron has taken over!" "Dead, y'say? Did we cut his head off?" "No, your Immensity! Filipino troops shot him in the neck and he drowned in is own blood!" "Blood, eh? I like blood. That's good. And who's taking over?" "Radulan Sahiron, O Great Quagmire of Islam!" "Well in that case, cut all ties with... ummm... what's the name of that group?" "Abu Sayyaf, O Emission of the Profit!" "Cut all ties with them. And cut whatsisname's head off! In fact, cut all their heads off!" He said four ASG guerrillas confirmed that Janjalani died after an encounter with the military last September. "They confessed that they were with Janjalani during last September's encounter. They said Khadaffy Jajalani was injured [in] the neck," he said. Sabban said the surrenderees told the military that they helped in carrying Janjalani's body and buried it two kilometers away from the encounter site. "Cheeze, Eid! He seems an awful lot heavier now than he did for the first kilometer!" "Let's just bury him here. I gotta get back for a press release!" That encounter with Janjalani's group took place last September 4 in Barangay Cabuntakas, Patikul in Sulu province. After the encounter, the military claimed that Janjalani was wounded. "Yup. He wuz either wounded or he had two mouths." "After that big encounter last September, we noticed that [Abu Sayyaf members] became scattered and started surrendering one-by-one," he added. "Don't shoot! We quit! Don't cut our heads off!" On Wednesday elements of the 3rd Marine Brigade exhumed what it claimed were the remains of Janjalani after the four ASG guerrillas led the military to the burial site. The Marines recovered bones, brown pajamas, a black balaclava and a colored shirt. Sabban said military forensics will take dental and deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) samples from the recovered remains to confirm if the boneswere Janjalani's. "That's his balaclava! I'd recognize it anywhere!" Janjalani was 23 years old when he inherited his older brother's status as ASG's spiritual leader in 1998. He replaced Afghanistan war veteran Abdurajik Abubakar Janjalani, who was killed in a firefight with the military in Basilan. Janjalani was arrested in 1995 but escaped from Camp Crame's detention facility with another ASG member, Jovenal Bruno. Janjalani is on the US list of most wanted terrorists with a $5 million bounty on his head. He's now worth about $1.39. Sabban said if the remains were confirmed as that of Janjalani, the four ASG surrenderees would be entitled to the reward. |
| Posted by:bk |
| #3 FredMan gets all the good lines. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2006-12-28 14:17 |
| #2 The ASG share names leading to confusion. I could be wrong, and I'm wrong more often than not, but the Sahiron Gen Sabban is talking about I believe to be Abu Soliman. In any event with KJ dead - praise be Allah- I don't understand why Hapilon is not running things, unless the reports of him dieing of wounds are correct. In any event this does spell the end of the ASG, again praise be allah. KJ was the guy to hold the different factions together in a team. Now they will slide from their muzzie leadership and go back to being simple pirates and thugs. This will expose the MILF as the source of support for the JI training camps. I expect the peace talks to fall apart this year with a new MILF action arm emerging. The ball is in lipless eddies, eid caballa, court. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2006-12-28 08:53 |
| #1 Radulan Sahiron was arrested last Saturday. Article That was the reason the article here says that if he was elected leader, then maybe they will lose their foreign contacts. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2006-12-28 05:18 |