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'''Khadaffy Abubakar Janjalani''' (also [[transliteration|transliterated]] as '''Khadafy Janjalani''', '''Khadafi Janjalani''' and '''Khaddafi Janjalani'''; March 3, 1975 – September 4, 2006) was thea nominalFilipino [[Islamist]] militant who was the leader of the [[Insurgent|Moro militant]] group known as [[Abu Sayyaf]] and the leader of one of its factions. He was a staunch [[Wahhabi]] follower.

Janjalani was also known as '''Daf''' or '''Pek'''. He was a [[Philippine nationality law|citizen of the Philippines]], of [[Tausug people|Tau Sūg]] and [[Hiligaynon people|Ilonggo]] parentage,<ref name=unson2017>{{cite news|first=John|url=https://www.philstar.com/nation/2017/04/16/1686467/mindanao-development-pushing-abu-sayyaf-out-security-officials|last=Unson|date=April 16, 2017|newspaper=[[The Philippine Star]]|title=Mindanao Development Pushing Abu Sayyaf Out —Security Officials}}</ref> and spoke both [[Tausūg language|Tausug]] and [[Tagalog language|Tagalog]], as well as some [[Arabic]]. According to the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]], he was quiet, reserved, indecisive and overconfident.

For that indictment, on February 24, 2006, Janjalani was among six fugitives in the second and most recent group of indicted fugitives to be added to the [[FBI Most Wanted Terrorists]] list along with two fellow members of Abu Sayyaf.<ref name="24threlease">{{cite web |url=https://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel06/mostwantedterrorists022406.htm |archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100129092124/http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel06/mostwantedterrorists022406.htm |archivedatearchive-date=January 29, 2010 |title=FBI Updates Most Wanted Terrorists and Seeking Information – War on Terrorism Lists |publisher=Federal Bureau of Investigation |date=February 24, 2006}}</ref>

On December 27, 2006, the Philippine military reported that what appeared to be Janjalani's remains had been recovered near [[Patikul]], on [[Sulu]] Island in the southern Philippines, and that [[DNA]] tests had been ordered to confirm the discovery. As related by fellow fighters taken prisoner, he was shot in the neck in an encounter with government troops in September on Luba Hills, Patikul town, Sulu Island. On January 20, 2007, Military Chief General [[Armed Forces of the Philippines|Hermogenes Esperon Jr.]] announced the identity of the corpse was confirmed, through a DNA comparison with a brother of the militant conducted by the American [[FBI]].

Khadafi Abubakar Janjalani was born in 1975 in Isabela City, currently one of the smallest 4th income class [[cities of the Philippines]]. Located on the north of the island of Basilan, Isabela is also the capital of Basilan province, across the Basilan Strait from [[Zamboanga City]]. But Isabela City is administratedadministered under the [[Zamboanga Peninsula]] political region north of the island of Basilan, while the rest of the island province of Basilan is now (since 1996) governed as part of the [[Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao]] (ARMM) to the east.

In the late 70s, [[Abdurajik Abubakar Janjalani]], Khadaffy Janjalani's older brother, was a former teacher from Basilan, who had studied theology and Arabic in [[Libya]], [[Syria]] and [[Saudi Arabia]]. Abdurajik then became a veteran of the war against the [[Soviet Union]] during the [[Soviet–Afghan War]]. During that time, he allegedly met [[Osama Binbin Laden]], and was given $6 million to establish his own offshoot group in the southern Philippines, out of members of the extant MNLF.

His older brother Abdurajik then returned home to Basilan island in 1990, where he gathered radical members of the old MNLF, to found Abu Sayyaf Group. It was named after his own alias, which was ''Abu Sayyaf''. MNLF had moderated into an established political party, which eventually became the ruling party of the ARMM, by its full institutionalization in 1996 on the southern Philippines island of [[Mindanao]].

Meanwhile, Abu Sayyaf Group had started out on their own by 1991 under the leadership of the elder Janjalani brother, Abdurajik. By 1995 they had been active in large scale bombings and attacks in the Philippines, and also had become associated with [[Ramzi Yousef]] (of the 1993 [[World Trade Center bombing]], the 1994 [[Philippine Airlines Flight 434]] bombing, and the foiled 1995 [[Operation Bojinka]]), and also with [[Jemaah Islamiyah]] ([[al-Qaeda]]'s [[southeast Asia]] associated branch led by [[Hambali]]).<ref name="nbr">{{cite web |url=http://www.nbr.org/publications/analysis/pdf/vol14no5.pdf |archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090326131526/http://www.nbr.org/publications/analysis/pdf/vol14no5.pdf |archivedatearchive-date=March 26, 2009 |title=Funding Terrorism in Southeast Asia: The Financial Network of Al Qaeda and Jemaah Islamiyah |work=NBR Analysis |issn=1052-164X |first=Zachary |last=Abuza |publisher=The National Bureau of Asian Research |date=December 2003}}</ref> At some point in the early 1990s, the younger brother Khadaffy Janjalani had also joined Abu Sayyaf, as a teenager, and was eventually imprisoned by the Philippines government.

On December 18, 1998, the older brother Abdurajik Janjalani was killed in a firefight with the [[Philippine National Police]] on Basilan island. He is thought to have been about age 39 at the time of his death.

The group's motive for kidnapping became more financial and less religious during the period of Khadaffy's leadership, according to locals in the areas associated with Abu Sayyaf. The hostage money is probably the method of financing of the group.<ref name="tactics">{{cite web |url=http://www.iht.com/IHT/TF/00/tf050900.html |archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041204121931/http://www.iht.com/IHT/TF/00/tf050900.html |archivedatearchive-date=December 4, 2004 |title=Philippine Rebel Tactics Shifted After Chief Died |publisher= International Herald Tribune}}</ref>

Janjalani's aliases include Khadafi Abubakar Janjalam, Khaddafy Abubakar Janjalani, Abu Muktar, Amir Khadafi Abubaker Janjalani, Khadafi Abu Muktar, Jimar Manalad Montanio, Khadafi Montanio, Abu Mochtar ("The good-hearted"), "Daf", and Omar Bin Salik.{{clear}}

News organizations in the Philippines came out with reports on December 26, 2006, about a body being dug-up in the area where Janjalani was known to be at large. On January 20, 2007, DNA test results came back confirming the body was his.<ref>[https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2809887 ABC News: ABC News<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070121214556/https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2809887 |date=January 21, 2007 }}</ref> Despite these results, his family believes that he is still alive and in hiding.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=64142 |archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926224203/http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=64142 |archivedatearchive-date=September 26, 2007 |title=Despite DNA tests, family insists Janjalani still alive |publisher=ABS-CBN Interactive}}</ref> In June 2007, the [[Rewards for Justice Program]] awarded the Philippines with 5 Million $ for information leading to his death.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rewards for Justice Pays $10 Million in Philippines' Ceremony: $5-Million Reward Each Paid for Two Abu Sayyaf Terrorist Leaders |url=https://2001-2009.state.gov/m/ds/rls/86180.htm |website=U.S. State Department}}</ref>

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