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2020-10-10 Southeast Asia
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Abu Sayyaf Group Lieutenant Slain in Clash in Southern Philippines
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2020-09-28
[BenarNews] A top lieutenant of an 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....
-affiliated terror group was slain in a shootout with troops on the southern Philippine island of Jolo on Monday, while a bomb maker for the group was arrested separately a day earlier, the military said.
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An hour-long firefight ensued after members of the 45th Infantry Battalion were sent to a village in remote Patikul town on information that a 40-man 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...
unit was seen in the area, said Lt. Col. Alaric Delos Santos, regional military front man.
"The troops scouring the encounter site recovered the body of the slain Abu Sayyaf member, war material and other personal belongings," said Delos Santos, quoting a report by 45th Infantry Battalion commanding officer Lt. Col. Reuben Guinolbay.
The body was identified as that of Arsibar Sawadjaan, an Abu Sayyaf subordinate leader and a cousin of Mundi Sawadjaan.
Mundi Sawadjaan is believed to have criminal masterminded the twin suicide kabooms in Jolo island last month that killed at least 15 people and injured more than 70.
There was no sighting of Mundi Sawadjaan Monday, nor of an Indonesian couple he is believed to be grooming as jacket wallahs, a military progress report on the fighting said.
The Sawadjaans’ elusive uncle, Hatib Hajan Sawadjaan, is the leader of the Philippine branch of IS and one of the commanders of the Jolo branch of Abu Sayyaf. Unconfirmed reports say that he was slain in an earlier clash, though the military has not confirmed this.
BOMBER ARRESTED
Meanwhile,
...back at the laboratory, Igor and Oleg were discussing what the quickest way might be to deal with the monster...
on Sunday, a team of the elite Special Action Force and police intelligence operatives captured Hajili Banah, the leader of the Abu Sayyaf unit in 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...
, from his hideout in Recodo village in the city of Zamboanga.
Banah, also known as Hashim Saripada,
| ...also for some reason in our archives as alias ‘Ibnu Kashir Saripada’ ... |
is known to have planned and carried out kabooms, and is a follower of Abu Sayyaf leader Hatib Hajan Sawadjaan, the military said.
"The arrest of Saripada will greatly debilitate the group particularly in the planning and execution of their bomb plots," said Lt. Gen. Corleto Vinluan Jr., commander of Western Mindanao Command (WestMinCom).
Banah has two warrants of arrest against him, on charges of multiple murder and attempted murder, issued by a local court in Basilan, he said.
Vinluan added that the team found a gallon of ammonium nitrate fuel oil, which is a chemical explosive, blasting caps, a detonating cord, a fragmentation grenade and a backpack at Banah’s hideout.
Saripada joined the Abu Sayyaf group in 2002 as a "financial and personnel controller" of the group in Basilan and of imported muscle going to the Zamboanga peninsula, Basilan and Sulu.
Vinluan said Saripada was believed to be involved in planning a suicide kaboom in July 2018 in Basilan that killed 11 military personnel, as well as the January 2019 twin kaboom inside a Roman Catholic cathedral in Jolo that killed at least 23 people.
"Saripada served as the planner and supervisor of the whole operation," Vinluan said, of the 2019 Jolo bombing.
He said that while there was no clear evidence that the Philippine-based IS affiliates receive instructions from their counterparts in the Middle East, threats from the group were still their "primary concern."
The threat level in the region "continues to exist," Vinluan said.
"To date, there is no clear evidence that IS-inspired groups here are connected with IS central in Iraq," Vinluan told BenarNews.
"However,
alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk...
linkages cannot be discounted since they continue to tag themselves as affiliates — and they use platforms such as social media as a hub for communication and propaganda."
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