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Southeast Asia |
Wives of four Abu Sayyaf commanders arrested |
2019-04-29 |
![]() The women worked under Abu Sayyaf leader Hajan Sawadjaan, the main suspect in the January 27 bombing of a Roman Catholic cathedral that killed 23 people in nearby Sulu province’s capital town of Jolo. The cathedral attack by two suspected suicide bombers triggered the latest military offensive against the Abu Sayyaf. Sawadjaan has been regarded as the current leader of small insurgent groups aligned with the Islamic State. Police officials suspect he may be harboring at least one more potential suicide attacker, an Arab militant, in his jungle encampment near mountainous Ptikul town in Sulu. |
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