Saturday, January 20, 2007
Abu Sayyaf leader declared dead
The Caliphate just lost another general.
The Abu Sayyaf group is the al Qaeda-affiliated Islamist insurgency in the Philippines:
Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, assassinations, kidnappings, and extortion in their fight for an independent Islamic state in western Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago with the stated goal of creating a pan-Islamic superstate across southeast Asia, spanning from east to west; the island of Mindanao, the Sulu Archipelago, the island of Borneo (Malaysia, Indonesia), the South China Sea, and the Malay Peninsula (Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand and Myanmar).
Bad guys, for sure. The good news is that the FBI has just confirmed through DNA testing that its leader, Khaddafy Janjalani, was killed in a gun battle on September 4.
Janjalani's death was confirmed after DNA tests carried out by the FBI compared tissue samples taken from remains found buried in the jungles of southern Jolo island in December with those of Janjalani's brother, Hector, who is serving prison time, military chief of staff general, Hermogenes Esperon, said Saturday.
Had you turned Janjalani in, you would be $5 million richer.
2 Comments:
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Sun Jan 21, 08:39:00 AM:
According to "Yahoo News":http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070120/ap_on_re_as/philippines_abu_sayyaf_5 there are only 400 of these Abu Sayyaf guys.
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High Power Rocketry, at
Sun Jan 21, 08:57:00 AM:
Wow just found your other blogs, nice.
