1. While the government initiating peace talk with Moro rebels US and Philippines military conducting their operations in some part of Mindanao.

2. Tell when this terrorist operation end? When and where they hide? Who created them?

3 wanted terrorist leaders killed in Sulu

Thursday, February 2, 2012

MANILA (2nd update 5:48 p.m.) -- The military said it killed three most-wanted leaders of the al-Qaeda-linked terrorist groups Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiyah at dawn Thursday in one of the most significant successes against militants on their southern island stronghold.

Those killed included Abu Sayyaf leader Umbra Jumdail, a Filipino; Malaysian Zulkifli bin Hir, also known as Marwan; and Singaporean Abdullah Ali, who uses the guerrilla name Muawiyah, said military spokesman Colonel Marcelo Burgos.

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Marwan is considered a top leader of the regional terrorist network Jemaah Islamiyah. Marwan carried a $5 million reward for his killing or capture and Muawiyah $50,000, both put up by the US government.

Burgos said the military carried out the attack early Thursday morning in Parang town on Jolo Island, the stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf and their allies from the Indonesian-based terrorist network Jemaah Islamiyah.

The Abu Sayyaf is behind numerous ransom kidnappings, bomb attacks and beheadings that have terrorized the Philippines for more than two decades.

US-backed Philippine offensives have been credited for the capture and killing of hundreds of Abu Sayyaf fighters and most top leaders since the 1990s. Jumdail, also known as Dr. Abu, had eluded troops in numerous offensives and emerged as a key figure in the radical movement.

The Filipino militants gave refuge to Jemaah Islamiyah operatives in Jolo and Basilan, the most senior among them Muawiyah and Marwan, who escaped authorities in their own countries.

In Malacanang, officials gave the Armed Forces of the Philippines a pat on the back for neutralizing three most-wanted leaders of the al-Qaeda-linked terrorist groups.

“We commend the AFP with this victory in the continuing fight against terrorism,” deputy presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte said. (AP/With Jill Beltran) SUNSTAR

JI, Sayyaf terrorists killed in US-led military ops in the Philippines
Thursday, February 02, 2012 05:17:27 PM

Zulkifli bin Hir.

ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanao Examiner / Feb. 2, 2012) – The Philippine military, aided by a US spy plane, bombed a terrorist hideout early on Thursday in the southern island of Sulu and killed as many as a dozen gunmen, among them two Jemaah Islamiya bombers and a senior Abu Sayyaf leader, officials said.

Officials said two military planes struck the hideout of Umbra Jumdail – dropping bombs on the hinterland village of Lanao Dakula in Parang town at around 2.30 a.m. – and destroying the target.

One military official told the Mindanao Examiner that an unmanned US drone helped tracked down the terrorist hideout before a pair of ageing Philippine Air Force OV10 planes bombed the Abu Sayyaf hideout where Malaysian Zulkifli bin Hir, also known as Marwan, and Indian Abdullah Ali, alias Muawiyah, were also hiding.

Zulkifli and Abdullah are included in the US wanted list and carried a $5 million and $50,000 bounty respectively, while Jumdail also had a $140,000 reward for his capture dead or alive.

“We have reports that Jumdail, Marwan and Muawiyah were killed in the air strikes and along with many other terrorists and possibly at least a dozen are believed killed in the operations,” Senior Superintendent Antonio Freyra, commander of police forces in Sulu, said in a separate interview.

Freyra, who led police commandos in the ground operation, said the terrorist hideout was totally destroyed. “Nothing is left of the camp and everything disintegrated at ground zero, but there is a report that some terrorists were able to take away some of the bodies. Two of six bodies recovered by the Abu Sayyaf were left behind for a still unknown reason. Our informants also spotted rebel leader Ahadun Adak with at least 21 followers near the area,” he told the Mindanao Examiner.

The Abu Sayyaf has been coddling Jemaah Islamiya terrorists tagged as behind the spate of bombings in the southern Philippines. (Mindanao Examiner)

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