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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (3887)	1/18/2007 9:20:08 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 20106

Top Taleban spokesman 'arrested' BBC ^ \| 1/16/07 news.bbc.co.uk Afghan intelligence agents say they have arrested a leading spokesman for the Taleban near the Pakistan border. Intelligence service spokesman Sayed Ansari named him as Dr Muhammad Hanif, who has been speaking for Afghanistan's former rulers since October 2005. Mr Ansari told the Associated Press the spokesman had been detained on Monday. He did not say where he is being held. Dr Hanif's capture, if confirmed, would be a notable success for the Afghan government as it battles the Taleban. The authorities say more than 3,500 people were killed in Afghanistan in 2006 as bombings by the Taleban and their allies and operations by Nato-led troops soared. 'Confessed' Mr Ansari said Dr Hanif had been detained in the border town of Towr Kham in Nangarhar province soon after entering Afghanistan from Pakistan. Two others travelling with him were also apprehended. The spokesman first gave his name as Abdulhaq Haqiq, Mr Ansari said. "But during the investigations we discovered that he is Dr Hanif," he told AP. "He also confessed to it himself." Dr Hanif has been highly active over the past year, regularly e-mailing news organisations with the Taleban's versions of events in the east of the country. A man called Qari Mohammad Yousuf has performed similar functions for the Taleban in the south. The two men were appointed after the capture in Quetta, Pakistan, of former Taleban spokesman Latifullah Hakimi in October 2005.

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (3887)	1/19/2007 12:04:04 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 20106

Philippine troops battle extremists (battled al-Qaida-linked Muslim extremists) AP on Yahoo ^ \| 1/16/07 news.yahoo.com MANILA, Philippines - Philippine troops battled al-Qaida-linked Muslim extremists in the southern Philippines and officials were trying to determine Wednesday if a key leader was killed, the military said. Army soldiers fought 60 Abu Sayyaf members in mountainous Talipao town on Jolo island on Monday, military spokesman Lt. Col. Bartolome Bacarro said. Talipao is 590 miles south of Manila. The clash with the group headed by Abu Sulaiman, a senior Abu Sayyaf leader on a U.S. list of terrorists, also left two soldiers wounded. Bacarro said Sulaiman is believed to have been fatally shot. "All indications are it's Sulaiman," Bacarro told The Associated Press by telephone. "This would really be a major blow to the Abu Sayyaf once we've confirmed it's him." He said the military was bringing a rebel informant to identify the body. Bacarro said troops found 17 bunkers and bomb-making tools at the rebel site. Last week, troops killed senior Abu Sayyaf militant Binang Sali in a gunfight in Jolo's Patikul town. Officials said Sali led an urban terror unit of the Muslim extremist group. Earlier this month, soldiers clashed with militants aboard a motorboat off nearby Tawi Tawi province, 650 miles southwest of Manila, killing Gufran, an Indonesian terrorist suspect who goes by one name, and five Abu Sayyaf members. Gufran was a key aide of Dulmatin, a top Indonesian terror suspect who has been hunted by troops in a monthslong U.S.-backed offensive on southern Jolo island, officials said. Gufran's reported death bolsters military reports that Indonesian militants have taken refuge in the southern Philippines — scene of a decades-old Islamic separatist insurgency.