{"id":41567,"date":"2015-02-10T10:19:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T02:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=41567"},"modified":"2015-02-10T10:19:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T02:19:43","slug":"milf-skirts-straightforward-answer-on-usman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/02\/10\/milf-skirts-straightforward-answer-on-usman\/","title":{"rendered":"MILF skirts straightforward answer on Usman"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_41351\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41351\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/abdul-basit-usman.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41351\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/abdul-basit-usman.png\" alt=\"Abdul Basit Usman\" width=\"500\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/abdul-basit-usman.png 500w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/abdul-basit-usman-300x239.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41351\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abdul Basit Usman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) vice chairman for political affairs Ghazali Jaafar refused to give a definitive answer on the whereabouts of terrorist bomb maker Abdul Basit Usman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you want me to answer if Usman is with us or not, I have no categorical answer to that,\u201d Jaafar said on Sunday to reporters from the The STAR.<\/p>\n<p>Nor would he say if the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF), an armed breakaway group from the MILF, aided Usman and Malaysian terrorist Zulkifli bin Hir, alias Marwan.<br \/>\nHowever Jaafar denied that the MILF coddled Usman and Marwan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey cannot do that,\u201d Jaafar said when asked if the MILF protects terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>In an address to the nation on February 5, President Aquino said that government forces would capture Usman, even without the help of the MILF. The President emphasized that those who stood in the way of Usman\u2019s seizure would be \u201crun over\u201d by government forces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI listened to the message of the President. I understand it as he is the President of the Republic of the Philippines,\u201d Jafaar said, pointing out that he did not feel the President \u201cwas exerting pressure\u201d on the MILF.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll our actions with regard to Usman should be based on the peace process and our commitment to the Bangsamoro people, which means these have to be in accordance with our agreements with government,\u201d Jafaar stressed..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) vice chairman for political affairs Ghazali Jaafar refused to give a definitive answer on the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":41351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news-ph","mauthors-angie-duarte","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}