GEN. SANTOS CITY, Philippines – Army and police operatives arrested here Sunday night one of the founders of the outlawed Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) and five other rebels.
Mohammad Ali Tambako, who hails from Barangay Libutan in Mamasapano, Maguindanao, was nabbed exactly three months after he launched a more radical BIFF faction called the Justice for Islamic Movement.
JIM members claimed that they took part in the killing of 44 police Special Action Force (SAF) commandos in Mamasapano last Jan. 25.
The military and police also tagged Tambako and his group as among those who brutally killed the SAF troopers in Mamasapano.
The JIM group has also been reported, aside from the BIFF, to be coddling bomb-maker Basit Usman and five other foreign terrorists.
The JIM, which is more known to local officials in Maguindanao as the Saifulllah that some of them interpret as “sword of God,” aims to establish an ethnically pure Moro state in the south, under an Islamic Sharia justice system, with absolute separation from the kuffar or non-Muslims.
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