One-arm commander’s offer is a trap, says Jolo activist


LAHAD DATU: The offer to surrender by Abu Sayyaf’s ageing one-arm commander Radulan Sahiron is seen as a trap to massacre the Philippine soldiers in the terror group’s stronghold of Jolo island.

Radulan, the group’s supreme leader or “emir” who is in his late 70s, recently made the overture to surrender through Sulu Muslim elders.

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