Security forces raided a hideout of the terrorist group BIFF
in southern Philippines
Officials said policemen, backed by soldiers, stormed the
hideout late Monday in Cotabato
City
Security forces also recovered a .45-automatic caliber
pistol and a hand grenade from Pagao.
Officials did not say how security forces managed to tracked
down Pagao, but his arrest was not made public immediately because of the
on-going operation aimed at weakening the BIFF capability to launch terror
attacks.
Pagao was handed over to the Criminal Investigation and
Detection Group and is being interrogated while police are preparing criminal
charges against him.
"This (arrest) is part of our (military and police) continuing efforts against terrorism and lawlessness and the capture of Pagao will definitely reduce the capability of the BIFF to sow terror.This is a significant accomplishment of the AFP and PNP intensified law enforcement operations in Maguindanao," Capt. Maria Rowena Muyuela, a spokeswoman for the Western Mindanao Command, told the regional newspaper Mindanao Examiner.
"This (arrest) is part of our (military and police) continuing efforts against terrorism and lawlessness and the capture of Pagao will definitely reduce the capability of the BIFF to sow terror.This is a significant accomplishment of the AFP and PNP intensified law enforcement operations in Maguindanao," Capt. Maria Rowena Muyuela, a spokeswoman for the Western Mindanao Command, told the regional newspaper Mindanao Examiner.
The military said the operation against the BIFF is
continuing, but not as intense as it was a month ago when security forces
launched an all-out war that killed over 100 gunmen in different towns in
Maguindanao, one of five provinces under the troubled Muslim autonomous region
in southern Philippines
The BIFF, founded by Ameril Umra Kato, broke away with the
larger Moro Islamic Liberation Front after accusing its leader Murad Ebrahim of
abandoning its pursuit of Muslim independence in Mindanao .
The MILF has signed a peace deal with the Aquino government last year.
http://www.mindanaoexaminer.net/2015/03/philippine-troops-capture-terror-leader.html
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