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Police nab alleged Abu Sayyaf member in Binondo

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<div class="media-content"><div class="slider-for"><div><img data-lazy="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2018/news/12/22/20181222-abu-sayyaf-binondo1.jpg"/></div><div><img data-lazy="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2018/news/12/22/20181222-abu-sayyaf-binondo2.jpg"/></div><div><img data-lazy="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2018/news/12/22/20181222-abu-sayyaf-binondo3.jpg"/></div></div><div class="media-content slider-desc"><div class="item-desc"><p>Police arrested suspected Abu Sayyaf group member Sudais Sali Asmad in Binondo, Manila Friday night. <cite> Photos from the National Capital Region Police Office&#x27;s Regional Special Operations Unit</cite></p></div><div class="item-desc"><p>Police arrested suspected Abu Sayyaf group member Sudais Sali Asmad in Binondo, Manila Friday night. <cite>Photos from the National Capital Region Police Office&#x27;s Regional Special Operations Unit</cite></p></div><div class="item-desc"><p>Police arrested suspected Abu Sayyaf group member Sudais Sali Asmad in Binondo, Manila Friday night. <cite>Photos from the National Capital Region Police Office&#x27;s Regional Special Operations Unit</cite></p></div></div></div><p>MANILA - Police on Friday arrested an alleged member of the Abu Sayyaf Group in Binondo district here for abduction cases filed against him more than 10 years ago. </p><p>An initial police report said Sudais Sali Asmad, 25, was arrested at 10:05 p.m. Friday in a joint operation of the National Capital Region Police Office&#x27;s Regional Special Operations Unit and the Philippine National Police Intelligence Group on Elcano Street.</p><p>Police served him a January 2008 arrest warrant for seven cases of kidnapping and serious illegal detention pending in a Basilan court.</p><p>Operatives recovered a caliber .45 pistol with one magazine loaded with 5 bullets, the report said. </p><p>Police said Asmad is a member of the bandit group &quot;under the umbrella of the Daulah Islamiyah under the group of Furuji Indama.&quot;</p><p>Daulah Islamiyah, an organization linked to the terror group Islamic State, includes the Maute family, whose members were behind the 5-month siege of Marawi City in 2017. </p><p>Police said Asmad &quot;served as the liason and escort&quot; and &quot;guide of Balik Islam,&quot; or those converting into the Islamic faith, from Luzon to Basilan. </p><p>&quot;Accordingly, he stayed in Manila to receive financial support from the sympathizers of the Daulah Islamiyah,&quot; the report read. </p>

<p>MANILA - Police on Friday arrested an alleged member of the Abu Sayyaf Group in Binondo district here for abduction cases filed against him more than 10 years ago. <br /> </p>

MANILA - Police on Friday arrested an alleged member of the Abu Sayyaf Group in Binondo district here for abduction cases filed against him more than 10 years ago.