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| Philippines: Alert Raised as Bombing Suspects Escape Jolo Island |
| 2020-08-30 |
| [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... bad boy wanted for planning the double suicide kaboom attacks that left 15 dead in the southern Philippine island of Jolo has escaped along with two young Indonesian "bomb experts," officials said Saturday. Details of how Mundi Sawadjaan and two others managed to get off the island despite a manhunt were not released, but they were believed to be headed either to Zamboanga city on the mainland or to the nearby island of Basilan |
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