The Army claims Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiyah ‘Terrorists [are] trapped in mountains’ in Sulu. Brigadier General Juancho Sabban said JI leader Umar Patek “died from the wounds he suffered” in battle. Chief General Hermogenes Esperon Jr. says there is “no evidence to verify the info that Patek and Janjalani have been killed.”
