Police killed five militants and rescued a kidnapped Chinese engineer in one of the huts in the area...

1. Correction: Philippine terror suspect story
Police killed five militants and rescued a kidnapped Chinese engineer in one of the huts in the area.
Several pictures seized by authorities from captured Abu Sayyaf fighters in the past and obtained
recently by The Associated Press show Mundos giving lectures in Arabic to young recruits in a hut in
the south with M16 rifles and grenade launchers lying by their side.
. (AP Photo/Philippine National Police)Â (The Associated Press)
In this undated photo released on Wednesday, June 11, 2014, by the Philippine National Police in
Manila, Philippines, Khair Mundos, right, a top commander of the Abu Sayyaf extremist group who is
on the U.S. The military and police have been hunting him for his alleged involvement in bombings
and kidnappings. Philippine security officials said Mundos was arrested in a slum community near
Manila's international airport but it was not immediately clear why he was in the capital. That
information was picked up from an erroneous Washington-datelined story from May 26, 2009. Gen.
Philippine security officials said Mundos was arrested in a slum community near Manila's
international airport but it was not immediately clear why he was in the capital. The Philippine
government also offered a 1.2 million peso ($27,200) reward.
The U.S. list of most-wanted terrorists and has once acknowledged receiving al-Qaida funds to
finance local bombings, trains comrades at their camp on Mindanao island in southern Philippines.
With an unwieldy collective of preachers and outlaws, it vowed to wage jihad, or holy war, but lost
its key leaders early in combat, sending it on a violent path of extremism and criminality.
Washington has listed the Abu Sayyaf as a terrorist group and blames it for deadly attacks on
American troops, missionaries and civilians in the southern Philippines.

2. The group still has an estimated 300 armed fighters split into about six factions and has been
blamed for deadly bomb attacks, extortion, ransom kidnappings and beheadings, according to the
military and police.
Two years ago, Mundos was wounded but managed to escape when police commandos raided a
hinterland community near southern Zamboanga city where he was training about two dozen young
Abu Sayyaf recruits. (AP Photo/Philippine National Police)Â (The Associated Press)
In this undated photo made available Wednesday, June 11, 2014, by the Philippine National Police in
Manila, Philippines, Khair Mundos, a top commander of the Abu Sayyaf extremist group who is on
the U.S. His arrest deals a major blow to the Abu Sayyaf, where he was a top commander, a combat
trainer, spiritual leader and a plotter of bombings and ransom kidnappings, according to military
intelligence chief Maj. list of most-wanted terrorists and has once acknowledged receiving al-Qaida
funds to finance local bombings, trains his comrades at their camp on Mindanao island in southern
Philippines. The military and police have been hunting him for his alleged involvement in bombings
and kidnappings. (AP Photo/Philippine National Police)Â (The Associated Press)

3. MANILA, Philippines - Â In a June 11 story about the capture of Khair Mundos, a top commander of
the Abu Sayyaf extremist group in the Philippines, The Associated Press erroneously reported that
the U.S. It was not immediately clear why he was in the capital. list of most-wanted terrorists and
has once acknowledged receiving al-Qaida funds to finance local bombings, trains comrades at their
camp on Mindanao island in southern Philippines. list of most-wanted terrorists and has
acknowledged receiving al-Qaida funds to finance bombings in the country.
Khair Mundos did not resist when army troops and police arrested him in a slum community near
Manila's international airport. list of most-wanted terrorists and has once acknowledged receiving
al-Qaida funds to finance local bombings, poses with comrades whiletraining at their camp on
Mindanao island in southern Philippines. The military and police have been hunting him for his
alleged involvement in bombings and kidnappings. He is believed to be the current leader of Abu
Sayyaf forces on southern Basilan, an impoverished, jungle-clad primarily Muslim island where
Mundos and two brothers joined the group.
The Abu Sayyaf was founded in 1991 in Basilan, about 880 kilometers (550 miles) south of Manila.
The military and police have been hunting him for his alleged involvement in bombings and
kidnappings.
Mundos is one of the highest-ranked terrorist suspects to be captured in the country in years.
Philippine security officials said Mundos was arrested in a slum community near Manila's
international airport but it was not immediately clear why he was in the capital. The military and
police have been hunting him for his alleged involvement in bombings and kidnappings. Philippine
security officials said Mundos was arrested in a slum community near Manila's international airport
but it was not immediately clear why he was in the capital. State Department had in 2009 announced
a $500,000 reward for Mundos' killing or capture. Philippine security officials said Mundos was
arrested in a slum community near Manila's international airport but it was not immediately clear
why he was in the capital. The military and police have been hunting him for his alleged involvement
in bombings and kidnappings. (AP Photo/Philippine National Police)Â (The Associated Press)

4. In this undated photo made available on Wednesday, June 11, 2014, by the Philippine National Police
in Manila, Philippines, Khair Mundos, left, a top commander of the Abu Sayyaf extremist group who
is on the U.S. State Department says Mundos, who was captured in 2004 but escaped in 2007, has
acknowledged in the past that he has arranged the transfer of al-Qaida funds to the Abu Sayyaf to
finance bombings in the Philippines.
He is one of the original leaders of the Abu Sayyaf, which has seen many of its commanders killed or
captured in more than a decade of U.S. (AP Photo/Philippine National Police)Â (The Associated
Press)
In this undated photo made available Wednesday, June 11, 2014, by the Philippine National Police in
Manila, Philippines, Khair Mundos, left, a top commander of the Abu Sayyaf extremist group who is
on the U.S. Eduardo Ano.
"He's a high-value target," national police spokesman Senior Superintendent Reuben Sindac said.
The State Department announced a $500,000 reward in 2009 for information that leads to the
location, arrest or conviction of Mundos. military-backed Philippine military offensives. list of most-wanted
terrorists and has once acknowledged receiving al-Qaida funds to finance local bombings,
poses with his comrades while training at their camp on Mindanao island in southern Philippines.

5. In this undated photo made available, Wednesday, June 11, 2014, by Philippine National Police in
Manila, Philippines, Khair Mundos, left, a top commander of the Abu Sayyaf extremist group who is
on the U.S. The reward was for information that leads to his location, arrest or conviction, not his
killing.
A corrected version of the story is below:
Top Filipino terror suspect captured near airport
Philippine troops capture Filipino militant on US list of most-wanted terrorists near airport
By JIM GOMEZ
Associated Press
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Philippine security forces on Wednesday captured a top Filipino
commander of the Abu Sayyaf extremist group who is on a U.S