{"id":41641,"date":"2015-02-10T22:18:48","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T14:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=41641"},"modified":"2015-02-10T22:18:48","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T14:18:48","slug":"hunt-for-usman-now-ongoing-afp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/02\/10\/hunt-for-usman-now-ongoing-afp\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunt for Usman now ongoing &#8212; AFP"},"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>MANILA &#8212; The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) confirmed that efforts are now underway to capture and neutralize Filipino bomb-maker and terrorist Basit Usman.<\/p>\n<p>This was confirmed by military public affairs office chief Lt. Col. Harold Cabunoc during a briefing Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>He declined to give specifics but said that the operation is being done in coordination with the Philippine National Police and military units in Maguindanao.<\/p>\n<p>Intelligence sources claimed that Usman is still hiding in the vicinity of Mamasapano despite the Jan. 25 operation by Special Action Force which neutralized Malaysian terrorist and bomb-maker Zulkifli bin Hir alias Marwan.<\/p>\n<p>Killed in the issuing encounter with members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters were 44 SAF members.<\/p>\n<p>Cabunoc also urged Moro Islamic Liberation Front units in the vicinity to help in the ongoing efforts as the fight against terrorism is everyone&#8217;s fight.<\/p>\n<p>Usman is a bomb-making expert with links to the Abu Sayyaf Group and Jemaah Islamiyah terrorist organizations operating in the southern Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>He is believed to have orchestrated several bombings that have killed, injured, and maimed many innocent civilians.<\/p>\n<p>Usman has been indicted in the Philippines for his role in multiple bombing incidents since 2003, and the Government of the Philippines has issued a warrant for his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>The US has placed a USD1 million reward for the former&#8217;s immediate capture or neutralization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) confirmed that efforts are now underway to capture and neutralize Filipino &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":41351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","mauthors-priam-f-nepomuceno","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41641","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=41641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41641\/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=41641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}