WESTMINCOM: Abu Sayyaf Group top leader neutralized in Basilan

Posted to the Western Mindanao Command (WESTMINCOM) Facebook Page (Mar 26, 2022): Abu Sayyaf Group top leader neutralized in Basilan

Camp Navarro, Calarian, Zamboanga City – March 26, 2022

Abu Sayyaf Group top leader Radzmil Jannatul was neutralized in an encounter in Sumisip, Basilan on March 25, 2022.

Brig. Gen. Domingo Gobway, Joint Task Force Basilan Commander confirmed that the ASG personality who was killed during an encounter late afternoon of Friday was identified as the group’s current top leader, Radzmil Jannatul, a.k.a. Khubayb. According to Brig. Gen. Gobway, troops of the 5th Scout Ranger Battalion were conducting combat operations when they encountered more or less four members of the Abu Sayyaf Group at Sitio Center, Barangay Baiwas, Sumisip.

 
Firefight ensued which lasted for about 15 minutes after which enemy withdrew living behind their slain comrade. While scouring the encounter site, troops recovered the dead body of the ASG personality who was positively identified as Jannatul.

 
Pursuit operation is currently being conducted while troops from the 64th Infantry Battalion were directed to establish blockades to possibly neutralize the fleeing enemies.

 
Jannatul was a notorious Basilan-based ASG sub-leader who replaced the late Furuji Indama as the top leader of the group following the latter’s death sometime in October 2020.

 
Lt. Gen. Alfredo Rosario, Jr., Commander of Western Mindanao Command commended the troops of Joint Task Force Basilan for taking down the ASG leader. “This will totally weaken the group and force the remaining members to give up their fight and save themselves,” the WestMinCom Commander said.
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