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 southern island of Mindanao, where he was believed to be hiding. Full Story
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