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| The Philippine military says it has killed three senior militants from al Qaeda-linked groups in a raid in the south of the country. | The Philippine military says it has killed three senior militants from al Qaeda-linked groups in a raid in the south of the country. |
| The air raid took place on Thursday in an area known as a militant stronghold. | |
| Reports said one Abu Sayyaf leader and two from the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) group were killed, including Malaysian Zulkifli bin Hir, or Marwan. | |
| He was on the US FBI's most wanted list, with a $5m (£3.2m) reward offered for his capture. | |
| Regional military commander Maj Gen Noel Coballes told Agence France Presse news agency that troops on the ground had confirmed the deaths of "Zulkifli bin Abdul Hir, alias Marwan; Mohammad Ali, alias Muawiyah; and Abu Sayyaf leader Abu Pula". | |
| According to the military, the militants were killed in the town of Parang in Jolo, the capital of Sulu province in the Mindanao region. | |
| Marwan is said to have been behind a series of bomb attacks in the southern Philippines since 2006. | |
| According to the FBI, he is "an engineer trained in the US" and has conducted bomb-making activities for militant groups, especially the Abu Sayyaf. | |
| Abu Sayyaf is the smallest and most radical of the Islamic separatist groups in the southern Philippines. | |
| JI has links to al-Qaeda and has a long track record of bomb attacks in Indonesia. It is believed to have been behind the Bali bomb attacks of 2002. |