ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanao Examiner / Mar. 15, 2013) – Police have arrested a suspected Abu Sayyaf militant accused in the 2001 attacked on rubber plantation workers in Zamboanga City in the southern Philippines.
Police identified the suspect as Jailani Basirul, who was nabbed in downtown Zamboanga. Details of the operation were unknown, but a police report said Basirul was among those who killed about a dozen workers in Tairan rubber plantation in Lamitan City.
Basirul has several arrest warrants and is now being interrogated by authorities. It was not immediately known whether the man was plotting an attack or hiding in Zamboanga.
The Abu Sayyaf has been blamed to the spate of terror attacks and killings, and kidnappings for ransom in the southern Philippines. (Mindanao Examiner)
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