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Head of pro-IS Philippine militant group slain: police
Thursday, January 5, 2017 IST
Head of pro-IS Philippine militant group slain: police

Head of pro-IS Philippine militant group slain: police

Manila: Philippine security strengths killed Thursday the  leader of a Muslim militant group that has completed destructive assaults on regular people to win bolster from Islamic State warriors in Iraq and Syria, powers said.

Mohammad Jaafar Maguid, founder and leader of Ansarul Khilafa Philippines, was found and shot at a shoreline resort on the southern island of Mindanao soon after 12 pm, while three "cohorts" were captured, a police report said.

Ansarul Khilafa is one of a few vicious Islamic aggressor bunches on Mindanao, country of an expansive Filipino Muslim minority where a decades-old separatist resistance has guaranteed more than 120,000 lives.

"He`s needed for bombarding episodes. They utilize ad libbed unstable gadgets, murdering individuals at town celebrations," Chief Superintendent Cedric Train, the provincial police boss, told AFP.

"They fly the ISIS signal in their camps. They need to be perceived by the ISIS," Train included, alluding to the Islamic State bunch by one of its acronyms.

The military executed eight Ansarul Khilafa individuals in a conflict in November 2015 at Maguid`s Mindanao main residence of Palimbang, 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) south of Manila.

Inside Secretary Ismael Sueno cautioned of potential rough repercussions from the demise of Maguid, all the more broadly known by his moniker of Commander Tokboy.

"They may strike back so we need to twofold our arrangements," Sueno said, refering to extensive Catholic religious celebrations in the Philippines this month.

Ansarul Khilafa was behind an assault that left two regular folks dead on Mindanao in 2008 and in addition a progression of thefts and different wrongdoings, as per Sidney Jones, executive of the Indonesia-based Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict.

Maguid was captured in 2009 yet gotten away eight months after the fact, Jones said in an examination paper distributed in October a year ago.

Prepare said the powers had additionally been investigating Ansarul Khilafa`s part in a besieging in Davao, Mindanao`s biggest city in September a year ago that slaughtered 15 individuals and harmed many others.

Maguid, who Train said was matured 32, showed up in a video coursed via web-based networking media arranges a year ago with the pioneers of other nearby aggressor bunches promising dependability to IS.

 
 
 
 
 

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Shibu Chandran
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Serving political interests in another person's illness is the lowest form of human value. A 70+ y old lady has cancer.

November 28, 2016 05:00 IST
Shibu Chandran
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Serving political interests in another person's illness is the lowest form of human value. A 70+ y old lady has cancer.

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November 28, 2016 05:00 IST


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