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MILF leader captured

COTABATO (Philippines) - THE Philippine military said on Wednesday it had arrested a top Muslim rebel who was wanted for deadly attacks, but his separatist group insisted the authorities had got the wrong man.

The Moro Islamic Liberation Front's (MILF) Camarudin Hadji Ali, also known as Commander Mudi, was picked up on Tuesday as he visited his wife in a southern Philippine city, regional army spokesman Colonel Jonathan Ponce said.

'Ali is a leader of the MILF's 105th Base Command under Ameril Umbrakato, who are both wanted for a series of deadly attacks last year in Mindanao,' Col Ponce said.

Umbrakato and another MILF field commander broke a five-year-old ceasefire last year and launched deadly raids across the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, where the group has been waging a decades-long separatist rebellion.

The attacks displaced up to 750,000 people and killed over 300. They followed the Supreme Court's rejection of a proposed deal between the government and the MILF that would have granted the rebels control over large swathes of land.

Ali had a bounty of one million pesos (S$29,710) on his head, Col Ponce said.

However MILF spokesman Eid Kabalu denied that any senior MILF field operative had been arrested.

'The military arrested the wrong person,' he told AFP, adding that Muslim civilians had informed the group that a man with a similar name had been arrested.

Ali's claimed arrest came a week after the government and the MILF agreed to create a panel of international brokers to help facilitate peace talks, which are expected to resume soon.

It was not clear how the reported arrest could affect the peace talks. -- AFP

Source: Straits Times Online