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Khadafi Abubakar Janjalani

Khadaffy Janjalani (also transliterated as Khadafy Janjalani, Khadafi Janjalani, and Khaddafi Janjalani) (born March 3, 1975 in Isabela City, Basilan province, Republic of the Philippines, is the nominal leader of the Filipino militant group Abu Sayyaf and the leader of one of its factions. Image File history File links Current_event_marker. ... Image File history File links Terjanjalani. ... Image File history File links Terjanjalani. ... Transliteration is the practice of transcribing a word or text written in one writing system into another writing system. ... March 3 is the 62nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (63rd in leap years). ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Isabela City is a city and the capital of the province of Basilan, in the Philippines. ... Basilan is an island province of the Philippines located in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). ... The word militant has come to refer to any individual or party engaged in aggressive physical or verbal combat, normally for a cause. ... The Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) (Arabic: جماعة أبو سياف), or simply Abu Sayyaf, also known as Al Harakat Al Islamiyya, is an Islamist terrorist separatist group of based in and around the southern islands of the Philippines, primarily Jolo, Basilan, and Mindanao. ...

Janjalani is also known as Daf or Pek. He is a citizen of the Philippines, a small man at 5'4" and only 120 pounds, with a thin build. He speaks both Tausug and Tagalog, as well as some Arabic. According to the FBI, he is quiet and reserved, and is thought to be indecisive and have an elevated opinion of his abilities. His whereabouts are unknown, since Janjalani may travel to Saudi Arabia and Malaysia. Tausug is spoken in Sulu province in the Philippines It is a member of the Visayan language family. ... Tagalog (pronunciation: ) is one of the major languages of the Republic of the Philippines. ... Arabic can mean: From or related to Arabia From or related to the Arabs The Arabic language; see also Arabic grammar The Arabic alphabet, used for expressing the languages of Arabic, Persian, Malay ( Jawi), Kurdish, Panjabi, Pashto, Sindhi and Urdu, among others. ...

Janjalani was indicted in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, for his alleged involvement in terrorist acts, including hostage kidnapping and murder, against United States nationals and other foreign nationals in and around the Republic of the Philippines. Janjalani allegedly served as the Amir or spiritual leader of Abu Sayyaf Group, which allegedly took the foreign nationals hostage. The United States District Court for the District of Columbia is the United States District Court that hears cases originating in the District of Columbia under Federal law. ... Emir (also sometimes rendered as Amir or Ameer, Arabic commander) is a title of nobility historically used in Islamic nations of the Middle East and North Africa. ...

For that indictment, on February 24, 2006, Khadafi Abubakar Janjalani was among six fugitives in the second and most recent group of indicted fugitives to be added to the FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list along with two fellow members of Abu Sayyaf. ^[1] February 24 is the 55th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ... Banner used by the FBI since inception on October 10, 2001 as the main title for the web site pages of both the group of wanted terrorists, and also on the wanted poster of each terrorist fugitive. ...

The United States government is offering a 5 million United States dollar (250,000,000 Philippine pesos) reward for Janjalani's capture. ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Virgin Islands, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 3. ... ISO 4217 Code PHP User(s) Philippines Inflation 7. ...

On December 27, 2006, the Philippine military reported that Janjalani's remains had been recovered near Patikul, on Jolo Island, southern Philippines, and that DNA tests had been ordered to confirm the discovery. He was allegedly shot in the neck in an encounter with government troops on September on Luba Hills, Patikul town, Sulu Island. December 27 is the 361st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (362nd in leap years). ... The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ... Patikul is a 4th class municipality in the province of Sulu, Philippines. ... Jolo is an island in the southwest Philippines. ...

Background on Basilan birthplace

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Khadafi Abubakar Janjalani was born in 1975 in Isabela City, currently one of the smallest and poorest, or 5th class, cities of the Philippines. Located on the north of the island of Basilan, Isabela is also the capital of Basilan province, across the Basilan Strait from Zamboanga City. But Isabela City is administrated under the Zamboanga Peninsula political region north of the island of Basilan, while the rest of the island province of Basilan is now (since 1996) governed as part of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) to the east. Map of the Philippines showing the location of Zamboanga Peninsula. ... Map of the Philippines showing the location of Zamboanga Peninsula. ... A city (lungsod, sometimes siyudad, in Filipino and Tagalog) is a tier of local government in the Philippines. ... The City of Zamboanga is a 1st class, highly urbanized city in the Philippines and one of the first chartered cities in the country. ... Zamboanga Peninsula is both a peninsula and an administrative region on that peninsula in the Philippines. ... The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM; Rehiyong Awtonomo ng Muslim Mindanao) of the Philippines is composed of five provinces and one city namely: Basilan, Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao, Sulu, Tawi-Tawi and the Marawi City. ...

Consequently, being on the social or political division line, Isabela City and Basilan island have seen some of the fiercest fightings between government troops and the Muslim separatist group Abu Sayyaf through the early 2000s. Image File history File links Ph_locator_basilan_isabela. ... This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. ...

Before Khadafi Janjalani was born, in the early 1970s, the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) was the main Muslim rebel group fighting in the Basilan region of the southern Philippines. The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is an active Islamic movement in the Southern Philippines. ...

After the late 1970s, Abdurajik Abubakar Janjalani, Khadaffy Janjalani's young adult older brother, became a teacher from Basilan, who studied theology and Arabic in Libya, Syria and Saudi Arabia during the 1980s. Abdurajik then became a veteran of the war against the Soviet Union during the Soviet war in Afghanistan. During that time, he allegedly met Osama Bin Laden, and was given $6 million to establish his own offshoot group in the southern Philippines, out of members of the extant MNLF. Abdurajik Abubakar Janjalani (1959? – December 18, 1998) was born on the Filipino island of Basilan to a Muslim-Christian family. ... The 1980s refers to the years of 1980 to 1989. ... Combatants Soviet Union Democratic Republic of Afghanistan Afghan Mujahideen rebels supported by nations such as: United States, Pakistan, Iran, China, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom Commanders Soviet forces only Boris Gromov Pavel Grachev Valentin Varennikov Jalaluddin Haqqani Abdul Haq Gulbuddin Hekmatyar Mohammed Younas Khalis Ismail Khan Ahmed Shah Massoud Sibghatullah Mojadeddi... Osama bin Muhammad bin Awad bin Laden (Arabic: ‎; born March 10, 1957 [1]), most commonly known as Osama bin Laden is a militant Islamist and one of the founders of al-Qaeda. ...

By then, as a political solution in the southern Philippines, ARMM had been created, in 1989, when the younger Janjalani was fourteen years old, growing up on Basilan.

Abu Sayyaf Group under Abdurajik Janjalani

His older brother Abdurajik then returned home to Basilan island in 1990, where he gathered radical members of the old MNLF, to found Abu Sayyaf Group. It was named after his own alias, which was Abu Sayyaf. MNLF had moderated into an established political party, which eventually became the ruling party of the ARMM, by its full institutionalization in 1996 on the southern Philippines island of Mindanao. Map of the Philippines showing the island groups of Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao Mindanao is the second largest and easternmost island in the Philippines and one of the three island groups in the country, with Luzon and Visayas being the other two. ...

Meanwhile, Abu Sayyaf Group had started out on their own by 1991 under the leadership of the elder Janjalani brother, Abdurajik. By 1995 they had been acitve in large scale bombings and attacks in the Philippines, and also had become associated with Ramzi Yousef (of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 1994 Philippine Airlines Flight 434 bombing, and the foiled 1995 Operation Bojinka), and also with Jemaah Islamiyah (al-Qaeda's southeast Asia associated branch led by Hambali ^[2]). At some point in the early 1990s, the younger brother Khadaffy Janjalani had also joined Abu Sayyaf, as a teenager, and was eventually imprisoned by the Philippines government. Ramzi Ahmed Yousef or Ramzi Mohammed Yousef (also transliterated as Ramzi Yusuf, Ramzi Youssef) (Arabic: رمزى يوسف ), birth name possibly Abdul Basit Mahmoud Abdul Karim, (Arabic: عبد الباسط كريم ) and also known by dozens of aliases,[1] is a Kuwaiti of Pakistani descent who was one of the planners of the 1993 World Trade Center... In the World Trade Center bombing (February 26, 1993) a car bomb was detonated by Arab Islamist terrorists in the underground parking garage below Tower One of the World Trade Center in New York City. ... Philippine Airlines Flight 434 was the route designator of a flight that flew on a Ninoy Aquino International Airport near Manila, Philippines - Mactan-Cebu International Airport, Cebu - New Tokyo International Airport (Now Narita International Airport), Narita, Japan near Tokyo route. ... Operation Bojinka (also known as Project Bojinka, Bojinka Plot, Bojinga, from Arabic: بجنكة – slang in many dialects for explosion and pronounced Bo-JIN-ka, except in Egyptian where it is Bo-GIN-ka) was a planned large-scale attack on airliners in 1995, and was... Jemaah Islamiyah, sometimes rendered Jemaah Islamiah, is a militant Islamic terrorist organization dedicated to the establishment of a fundamentalist Islamic theocracy in Southeast Asia, in particular Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia, and the south of Thailand and the Philippines. ... Al-Qaeda (Arabic: القاعدة, the foundation or the base) is the name given to a worldwide network of militant Islamist organizations under the leadership of Osama bin Laden. ... Location of Southeast Asia Southeast Asia is a subregion of Asia. ... Riduan Isamuddin Riduan Isamuddin (also transliterated as Riduan Isamudin, Riduan Isomuddin, and Riduan Isomudin, better known by the nom de guerre Hambali, born as Encep Nurjaman, born April 4, 1966) was the leader of the Indonesian terrorist organization Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), which allegedly has a partership with Al Qaeda. ...

In 1995, 20 year-old Khadaffy Janjalani escaped from Camp Crame in Manila along with another member named Jovenal Bruno. 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Camp Crame is the national headquarters of the Philippine National Police (PNP) and is located in Quezon City. ... The City of Manila (Filipino: Lungsod ng Maynila), or simply Manila, is the capital of the Philippines. ...

On December 18, 1998 the older brother Abdurajik Janjalani was killed in a firefight with the Philippine National Police on Basilan island. He is thought to have been about age 39 at the time of his death. In the Gregorian Calendar, December 18 is the 352nd day of the year (353rd in leap years), at which point there will be 13 days remaining to the end of the year. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... The Philippine National Police is the National police force of the Republic of the Philippines. ...

Abu Sayyaf Group under Khadaffy Janjalani

Khadafi Abubakar Janjalani

The 23 year-old Khadaffy Janjalani then took power of one of Abu Sayyaf's factions in an internecine struggle. He then worked to consolidate his power within Abu Sayyaf, causing the group to appear inactive for a period. After Janjalani's supremacy was secured, Abu Sayyaf began a new tactic, as they proceeded to take hostages. Image File history File links Terjanjalani2. ... Image File history File links Terjanjalani2. ...

The group's motive for kidnapping became more financial and less religious during the period of Khadaffy's leadership, according to locals in the areas associated with Abu Sayyaf. The hostage money is probably the method of financing of the group. ^[3]

Khadaffy Janjalani was indicted in the United States for his alleged involvement in terrorist acts, including hostage taking by Abu Sayyaf and murder, against United States nationals and other foreign nationals in and around the Republic of the Philippines.

Consequently on February 24, 2006, Janjalani was among six fugitives in the second and most recent group of indicted fugitives to be added to the FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list along with two fellow members of Abu Sayyaf, Isnilon Totoni Hapilon and Jainal Antel Sali, Jr. Banner used by the FBI since inception on October 10, 2001 as the main title for the web site pages of both the group of wanted terrorists, and also on the wanted poster of each terrorist fugitive. ... Isnilon Totoni Hapilon Isnilon Totoni Hapilon (born March 18, 1966 in Bulanza barangay, Lantawan municipality, Basilan province, Republic of the Philippines) is Deputy Amir, or second in command, of the Filipino terrorist group Abu Sayyaf. ... Jainal Antel Sali, Jr. ...

Janjalani's aliases include Khadafi Abubakar Janjalam, Khaddafy Abubakar Janjalani, Abu Muktar, Amir Khadafi Abubaker Janjalani, Khadafi Abu Muktar, Jimar Manalad Montanio, Khadafi Montanio, Abu Mochtar ("The good-hearted"), "Daf", and Omar Bin Salik.

Current News

News organizations in the Philippines came out with reports on December 26, 2006 about a body being dug-up in the area where Janjalani was known to be at large. The body has been speculated as that of Janjalani, but forensic experts have yet to determine the status of this claim.

References

1. ^ FBI Updates Most Wanted Terrorists and Seeking Information – War on Terrorism Lists, FBI national Press Release, February 24, 2006
2. ^ nbr.org (pdf)
3. ^ Information on new tactics

February 24 is the 55th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ...

External links

• Death report from Washington Times
• FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists wanted poster of Janjalani at fbi.gov
• PBS article about Janjalani
• Asia Times: "Philippines the second front in war on terror?"
• Looking for al-Qaeda in the Philippines