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Abu Sayyaf Leader's Brother Killed

Police raided an Abu Sayyaf hideout in the southern city of Zamboanga late Sunday and killed a brother of one of the group's leaders, a newspaper report said.

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Police raided an Abu Sayyaf hideout in the southern city of Zamboanga late Sunday and killed a brother of one of the group's leaders, a newspaper report said.

Bakkal Hapilon was gunned down after he refused to surrender and opened fire at policemen who, tipped off by villagers, surrounded his hideout on the outskirts of Zamboanga, the Malaya daily reported.

He is the brother of Isnilon Hapilon, one of the five top Abu Sayyaf leaders wanted by the United States on an award of five million U.S. dollars.

Bakkal Hapilon himself has a bounty of one million pesos (about 20,000 dollars) offered by the Philippine government for his capture dead or alive.

The Abu Sayyaf, which has been holding an American missionary couple and a Filipina nurse hostage for a year on Basilan island south of Zamboanga, allegedly has links with the al-Qaeda network of Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind of the September 11 attacks on the United States.

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