KIDAPAWAN CITY – Security forces shot dead a suspected Filipino terrorist who was being linked to a bombing in General Santos City in 2018 that left at least 7 people wounded.
Police said Ben Usman, a brother of terrorist leader Abdul Basit Usman, was slain after he exchanged gunfire with police commandos and soldiers who were trying to arrest him in South Cotabato’s Polomolok town.
Security forces tracked down Usman’s hideout over the weekend in the village called Lapu after intelligence reports led policemen and soldiers to the area. Brig. Gen. Michael John Dubria, the regional police chief, confirmed the killing of Usman. The raiders also recovered a fragmentation grenade and an ISIS flag.
Usman’s brother was also killed by the rebel group Moro Islamic Liberation Front in 2015 in Maguindanao’s Guindulungan after the senior U.S. officials sought its assistance to capture him and other terrorists, among them Jemaah Islamic militants Dulmatin and Umar Patek, tagged as behind the 2002 Bali bombings that killed more than 200 people, mostly foreigners.
Dulmatin and Patek fled to Mindanao after the bombing. But Dulmatin returned to Indonesia where he was killed by security forces in his hideout in Jakarta in March 2010. Patek was eventually captured in January 2011 in Abbottabad in Pakistan after escaping from the Philippines, and extradited to Indonesia in August 2011. (With a report from Rhoderick Beñez)
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Police said Ben Usman, a brother of terrorist leader Abdul Basit Usman, was slain after he exchanged gunfire with police commandos and soldiers who were trying to arrest him in South Cotabato’s Polomolok town.
Security forces tracked down Usman’s hideout over the weekend in the village called Lapu after intelligence reports led policemen and soldiers to the area. Brig. Gen. Michael John Dubria, the regional police chief, confirmed the killing of Usman. The raiders also recovered a fragmentation grenade and an ISIS flag.
Usman’s brother was also killed by the rebel group Moro Islamic Liberation Front in 2015 in Maguindanao’s Guindulungan after the senior U.S. officials sought its assistance to capture him and other terrorists, among them Jemaah Islamic militants Dulmatin and Umar Patek, tagged as behind the 2002 Bali bombings that killed more than 200 people, mostly foreigners.
Dulmatin and Patek fled to Mindanao after the bombing. But Dulmatin returned to Indonesia where he was killed by security forces in his hideout in Jakarta in March 2010. Patek was eventually captured in January 2011 in Abbottabad in Pakistan after escaping from the Philippines, and extradited to Indonesia in August 2011. (With a report from Rhoderick Beñez)
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