PETALING JAYA: Jemaah Islamiyah leader Zulkifli Abdul Hir, a Malaysian militant high on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists list, was killed in an air strike in the Philippines.
Regional military commander Maj Gen Noel Coballes told news agencies that ground troops had confirmed the death of Zulkifli, famously known as Marwan, after a raid on a military stronghold in Jolo island, in the Mindanao region.
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