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DNA tests conducted by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation have determined that a body recovered in the Philippines last month was that of Khadaffy Janjalani, head of the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic extremist group Abu Sayyaf. The body was in an advanced state of decomposition when it was discovered on the southern island of Jolo in a shallow grave. The state of the body made direct identification impossible. The 31 year-old Abu Sayyaf leader was south-east Asia's most wanted man and authorities were offering a five million dollar reward for his capture. Abu Sayyaf is trying to create an Islamic state...

MANILA (AP) -- Remains believed to be those of the chief of the al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf group, one of the objectives of a long U.S.-backed manhunt, have been found in the southern Philippines, the military said today. Khaddafy Janjalani is on a U.S. list of wanted terrorists with a $5 million bounty on his head for a series of beheadings, bombings and mass abductions. He has proved elusive in the dense jungles and mangroves that have become home for Janjalani and his men.

MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES - There are so many links between the Abu Sayyaf Group of the Philippines, which beheaded an American hostage a few months ago, and Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda terrorist network, that on paper they look like the route map for a Peshawar-based airline. The links run from that high, bleak border city in Pakistan to terrorist dens in Afghanistan and Yemen; to murders and bombings in the Philippines; to the first attack on the World Trade Center; to a foiled attempt to assassinate the pope during a 1995 visit to Manila. A captured Abu Sayyaf guerrilla, ...

The government assured the United States, Australia and Indonesia yesterday that it would not let elusive Abu Sayyaf leader Khadaffy Janjalani and his two Jemaah Islamiyah cohorts, who are wanted for the 2002 Bali bombings, escape a military dragnet in Sulu. A civilian was killed and five soldiers were wounded in clashes outside the town of Indanan in Sulu as government troops pursued Abu Sayyaf rebels and several Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) militants who have joined forces in Mindanao, military officials said. The officials said at least three Abu Sayyaf rebels were killed and two others wounded as the military launched...

ZAMBOANGA, Philippines (AFP): Indonesian Islamic militant Dulmatin, who has a US$10 million bounty on his head, is hiding out in the Philippines, a spokesman of the main Muslim separatist group here said Friday. Dulmatin, an al-Qaeda trained electronics expert thought to be one of the masterminds of the 2002 Bali bombings, is in Mindanao, said Eid Kabalu from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). He said Dulmatin was with the senior leader of militant group Abu Sayyaf, Khadaffy Janjalani, as well as another alleged member of Jamaah Islamiyah (JI), Umar Patek. The U.S. reward announced Thursday for information that...

The military said on Wednesday that it was still hunting for the leader of the Muslim Abu Say­yaf group, expressing doubts about reports that Khaddafy Janjalani was killed in air strikes in November. Last week, the United States added Janjalani to a group of militants whose finances are blocked, calling him a “despicable terrorist, responsible for the kidna­p­pings and beheadings of American civilians.” Besides Abu Sayyaf, soldiers are fighting several other Muslim rebel groups and a communist insurgency in rural areas. Lt. Colonel Pascual Buena­ventura, spokesman for the Army, said troops were looking for Janjalani in marshy regions of the...

For Release Monday, May 31 A Look at the New Generation of Terrorist Leaders The Associated Press May 30, 2004 A look at world's new generation of terrorist leaders: ABU MUSAB AL-ZARQAWI Former commander for al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, 38-year-old Jordanian has links to terrorist groups from North Africa to Caucuses. Allegedly maintains ties to al-Qaida and believed to be leading resistance to Iraq's occupation. CIA says Zarqawi was black-clad militant who decapitated American Nicholas Berg. Also believed to have had hand in March 11 bombings in Madrid, Spain, failed chemical attack in Jordan and numerous attacks in Iraq....