Wow. Reuters says Terrorist is former SAF Officer..

[Asher]

EDIT: I just realised. Erm. If the moderators find this posting inappropriate due to racial insensitivity, please feel free to remove this discussion. I apologise for any unhappiness caused.

 

I was in the same lift just now with the marketing guy next door, a former SAF regular. He told me one of the terrorist killed is former SAF Officer and he shakes head. I sit down I quickly Google for the news liao. Wa lao... Straitstimes never report that a former SAF Officer has turned into a terrorist? He know he hentakaki, he buay song seek career change be terrorist? lol

 

http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/02/02/p...E8110BW20120202

 

(Reuters) - Fifteen al Qaeda-linked militants, including three faction leaders, were killed on Thursday in an air strike on a rebel camp in the southern Philippines, officials said, hailing the strike as a victory in the fight against terrorism.

 

Among those killed in the attack on Sulu island were at least two members of the Jemaah Islamiah (JI), a Southeast Asian group behind a bombing on the Indonesian island of Bali in 2005 in which 202 people were killed, many of them foreign tourists.

 

"We commend the AFP with this victory in the continuing fight against terrorism," presidential spokeswoman Abigail Valte said in a message to reporters, referring to the armed forces of the Philippines.

 

A Malaysian bomb-making expert and a former Singaporean military officer were among the militants killed, a Philippine officer said.

 

Remote, Muslim-majority parts of the southern Philippines have become a haven for al Qaeda-linked militants from around the region.

 

Foreign militants have found shelter with Philippine Muslim rebels who have been battling the central government of the Christian-majority country for decades.

 

Among those killed on Thursday was Malaysian bomb expert Zulkipli Bin Hir, alias Marwan, and Singaporean Muhammad Ali bin Abd Al-Rahman, or Mauiyah, a former major in the Singaporean military, a Philippine officer said.

 

A top official of the Philippine rebel group Abu Sayyaf, Gumbahali Jumdail, or Dr Abu, was also killed, said General Jessie Dellosa, Philippine armed forces chief of staff.

 

Jumdail was involved in the 2001 kidnapping of an American missionary couple and the 2000 abduction of 21 tourists in Sipadan, Malaysia, he said.

 

Major General Noel Cobbales, head of the Western Mindanao command in the Philippine south, said the military began planning the attack after getting reports that 30 militants, including six JI members, had arrived on Sulu in December.

 

"This is major because we are talking of three leaders," Cobbales told reporters. "This would have a very big impact on the capability of the terrorists."

 

"We want to assure the people of Sulu that our operation is aimed against known members of the terrorist groups - Abu Sayyaf and JI - who are now expanding their presence," he said.

 

The southern Philippines is a focus of the U.S.-led international campaign against militancy, launched after the September 11, 2001, attacks in the United States.

 

The United States has some troops helping train Philippine forces in the region.

 

(Editing by Robert Birsel)

Edited February 3, 2012 by Asher

[Baphomet]

a terrorist can be from anywhere, from any professions. You really think SAF regulars all joined the force because they love the country meh ???

Edited February 3, 2012 by Baphomet

[Wasted]

wah he really kenna brainwashed ...

[Evillusion]

a terrorist can be from anywhere, from any professions. You really think SAF regulars all joined the force because they love the country ???

wei! that time i serve ns bcos i love my country hor!

[Baphomet]

wei! that time i serve ns bcos i love my country hor!

 

 

Or "because Zheng Hu say so, so we lan lan have to serve have to serve...ar!"

[Evillusion]

Or "because Zheng Hu say so, so we lan lan have to serve have to serve...ar!"

kns..y u picah lobang! [laugh]

[Asher]

=x I just realised something. LOL. Erm. If the moderators find this posting inappropriate due to racial insensitivity, please feel free to remove this discussion. I apologise for any unhappiness caused.

[Duckduck]

when it comes jihadi holy war, it is religion above country... thats y muslim chechnya, uzbeks all goto afghanistan to fight...

 

watch this to understand more: Dispatch Afghanistan

[Mustank]

sad

[RadX]

I wonder how you take on this, but indeed, LKY was right!

 

Whether it sets a precedence or not, remains to be seen

 

 

 

Singapore "JI member" killed in Philippines

 

MANILA: The Philippines said Thursday it killed three of Southeast Asia's most-wanted Islamic militants including a Malaysian bomb maker with a $5-million US government bounty on his head and a Singaporean who is said to be a top name in Jemaah Islamiyah.

 

The Philippine army, aided by US advisers, launched a pre-dawn bombing raid on a remote southern island in which 15 members of the Al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiyah organisations died, military chiefs said.

 

"This is a big victory. There were three senior leaders (killed). This will have a very big impact on the capability of the terrorists," regional military commander Major General Noel Coballes told reporters in a teleconference.

 

Planes bombed the outskirts of a village on Jolo island where intelligence sources had informed the military that about 30 Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiyah figures were based, Coballes said, adding no ground troops was deployed.

 

Among those the military said it killed was Zulkifli bin Abdul Hir, alias Marwan, a Malaysian who is accused of being a senior member of regional terror network Jemaah Islamiyah and behind multiple bomb attacks in the Philippines.

 

He is also accused of being the leader of Kumpulan Mujahidin Malaysia, a Malaysian group that like Jemaah Islamiyah wants to set up an Islamic state across Southeast Asia.

 

In 2007 the US offered a $5-million reward for his capture, making him one of the United States' most-wanted men.

 

According to the US State Department's website that posts information about its most-wanted for terrorism, only four people in the world have higher bounties for their capture, among them Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri.

 

The Philippine military said it also killed Filipino Abu Pula, also known as Doctor Abu and Umbra Jumdail, one of the core leaders of the Abu Sayyaf militant organisation.

 

The Abu Sayyaf is blamed for the worst terrorist attacks in the Philippines including the bombing of a ferry in Manila that killed more than 100 people, as well as dozens of kidnappings in the remote and Muslim-populated south.

 

The third senior militant figure that the Philippine military said it killed was Singaporean Mohammad Ali, alias Muawiyah, another top name in Jemaah Islamiyah.

 

Although no Philippine troops was on the ground, the military said it was sure the three senior figures had been killed, based on reports from their intelligence sources.

 

Jemaah Islamiyah is accused of carrying out many deadly attacks in Southeast Asia including the bombing of tourist spots on the Indonesian island of Bali in 2002 that killed 202 people, among them 88 Australians.

 

Muawiyah and Zulkifli were believed to have been hiding out on the Abu Sayyaf's bases on remote, jungle-infested southern Philippine islands since 2003, according to the Philippine military and the US State Department website.

 

A rotating force of 600 US Special Forces has been stationed in the southern Philippines for a decade to help train local troops in how to combat Islamic militants.

 

The US forces are only allowed to advise the Filipino soldiers and are banned from having a combat role.

 

Philippine armed forces spokesman Colonel Arnufo Burgos told reporters in Manila that the US troops had provided crucial help in the bombing raid, which took place after months of monitoring and surveillance on Jolo island.

 

"The US has been providing us assistance in terms of training intelligence and they are helping us in the joint operation task force based in southern Mindanao," Burgos said.

 

"They provided us intelligence in this case."

 

A US embassy spokeswoman in Manila said she had no immediate comment.

 

- AFP/wk

[Sk65]

major some more....

 

[Mazdaowner]

Same sentiments.

[RadX]

Yup.....and what LKY said in his book, scarily is quite correct

[Tuna_seng]

a terrorist can be from anywhere, from any professions. You really think SAF regulars all joined the force because they love the country meh ???

 

The question is, why was this piece of vital information withheld from being published in the ST?

 

An SAF officer has access to certain sensitive information that WOSpecs do not.

[RadX]

The question is, why was this piece of vital information withheld from being published in the ST?

 

An SAF officer has access to certain sensitive information that WOSpecs do not.

 

 

and in another forum, there was this discussion about sensitivity of a certain ethnicity in certain sensitive units, for ge, Signals.

 

Does this piece of news now raise the bells a bit more?

[RadX]

I only think CNA revealed this cos Reuters has published it, else, all diam diam

Edited February 3, 2012 by RadX

[RadX]

Think the other significant event was in the USA where this major also went on shooting spree in the unit

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Hood_shooting

[Happily1986]

Somehow the fact that he was a Major made me sit up.